In Never Let Me Go, what is the significance of the imaginary game Kathy H. plays with Ruth?

Ruth
has an expressive, dominant personality that comes out throughout the novel. Kathy is passive,
the follower of the pair, and defers to Ruth's leadership at every turn. We're introduced to
their dynamic in Chapter Four when Ruth strong-arms Kathy into playing a make-believe
game.

Ruth dispenses of the other girls who are playing with Kathy and
insists Kathy play only with her. She explains the many rules of the game she has made up and
becomes upset when Kathy doesn't follow the rules exactly as Ruth likes them followed. When Ruth
lashes out at Kathy and insists Kathy "clean-up" their pretend game, Kathy does so
willingly.

This dynamic follows the girls into adolescence and is most
evident when it comes to their relationship with Tommy. Kathy experiences deep feelings for him,
which are brushed aside when Ruth announces her intentions. Ruth spends much of their later
years bossing Kathy around, which comes to a head when they are adults and begin to fight more
often. Later, Kathy...

Can anyone give me an example of a simile and/or personification in "The Necklace"? Anything you can tell me would be great! I appreciate all of...

In 's
"," there are many uses of , in which inanimate objects are given qualities that only
humans can possess or actions that only humans can take.  In the story's opening line, in
describing the background of Madame Loisel, the narrator says she has been born into "a
family of artisans" because "fate had blundered over
her." Fate is an abstract notion that is unable to blunder--or in other
words, make a mistake.

Madame Loisel desires the finest material things in
life, and she becomes emotional about the things that she cannot have.  The narrator describes
her eyes as "furious" and says that
"her heart began to beat covetously" though these body
parts cannot literally experience these very human emotions.

And lastly, when
Madame Loisel is thinking about the the worn out home furnishings that surround her, the
narrator observes, " All these things, of which other women of her class
would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her." The "mean
walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains" are inanimate objects that are literally incapable
of either tormenting or insulting her. 

What quotation demonstrates Tybalts excessive masculine pride? How?

is the
most aggressively masculine character in . His pride and arrogance
contribute not only to his own death but also to the subsequent events that turn into afor both
Capulets and Montagues. Shakespeare conveys Tybalt's personality both through his own words and
actions as well as what others say about and how they react to him.

Tybalt
seems apparently determined to harass the Montagues whenever possible, and his pride is shown by
his refusal to seek peaceful solutions. In act 1, scene 1, for example, he demands to fight,
despite the other mans plea for peace, declaring that he hates the very word "peace."
In act 1, scene 5, his reluctance to calm down is shown again, but this time he...

How does the past Oceania differ from the present Oceania in 1984?

In
, it is very difficult to compare the past Oceania with the present. While
we can state that there were no telescreens or ministries, for instance, it is almost impossible
to make any other comparisons because the Party has rewritten the official history in a way
which glorifies Big Brother and the revolution which brought him to power. Here's one example
from a history book whichreads in Part One, Chapter Seven:

"In the old days (it ran), before the glorious Revolution, London was not the
beautiful city that we know today. It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody
had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and
not even a roof to sleep under."

Winston tries to
confirm this view by...

How is double -consciousness applied in W.E.B. Du Bois book, Of the Coming of John?

In this
story, I would say that John Jones is trapped between the two sides of his
double-consciousness.  There are two sets of expectations for him, but neither of them really
fits his own feelings.  Unlike the person described...

How did Friar Laurence lie in Romeo and Juliet?

Whiledoes not directly lie to anyone in the
play, he does deceive the entire community of Verona by marryingin secret, helping hide , and
givinga potion that allows her to fake her own death. Initially, Friar Lawrence agrees to marry
both Romeo and Juliet in secret because he believes that their marriage will end the ongoing
family feud between the Montagues and Capulets. In act 2, scene 6, Friar Lawrence marries the
couple in secret and the only other person that is aware of their marriage is the Nurse. After
Romeo murders, Friar Lawrence once again deceives Verona's society by hiding Romeo in his cell
until the Nurse arrives and tells...

In light of the 9/11 attacks, should acts of terrorism be treated differently from other common-law violent crimes? Should terrorists be executed for...

The term
"terrorism" and "terrorist" are incredibly politically charged terms that
are often used by states and political groups to delegitimize/dehumanize their enemies/political
opponents and to encourage widespread acceptance of violence done against people deemed as
"terrorists." Since 9/11, muslim folks living in the US have been subjected to intense
xenophobia, islamophobia, vigilante white supremacist violence, and state oppression via mass
surveillance and FBI raids.

Over 500,00 civilians (conservative estimate)
were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of the United States' war of aggression against
the people of these countries. Yet, governments, such as the United States government, designate
individuals and groups as terroristseven though they themselves committed mass murders on a
scale that only the genocidal power of states and their militaries are capable of.

Currently, folks involved in the antifascist movement in the US have been repeatedly
deemed as domestic terrorists by the president and his administration and by right-wing media
and far-right political groups. This unofficial designation of antifascist movements has allowed
for the growing acceptance of white supremacist/far-right vigilante violence done against
antifascist groups/individuals and acceptance of designations of people in antifascist movements
as domestic terrorists, which opens the door for intense political repression and state
punishment.

Often, the word "terrorist" is used against people and
groups who oppose the power of a state or status quo. For instance, there is an alarmingly
growing rate of white supremacist mass shootings in this country against people of color and
jewish people (such as the El Paso shooting that followed the release of the shooter's online
white supremacist manifesto). However, these people are often not deemed as terrorists, and
white supremacist groups that have been significantly on the rise since 2016 (such as the League
of the South, the Proud Boys, and the Atomwaffen Division) are often not deemed as terrorists
while antifascist groups and muslim folks are continuously facing the oppression that comes with
being deemed as terrorists.

As such, I do not believe that people deemed as
terrorists by the state should be subjected to harsher laws and punishments, as this term is so
often manipulated in politically charged narratives that only serve the people in power. Rather
than focusing on increasing the power of the state to deem anyone as a terrorist, I would
encourage people concerned with building a better world to turn away from state-based solutions
and think about building grassroots movements for social justice and true
freedom.