How does Aunt Alexandra display prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

As a Southern
lady, Aunt Alexandra's racial prejudice is more subtle than that of others in Maycomb since it
is connected to her social level of society as well as with race.

Alexandra's
haughtiness and disdain extends to "white trash" (e.g., she frowns on 's desire to
have Walter Cunningham come "home to dinner" in ) as well as the "Negroes."
So, when she expresses her distaste with the children's having attended Calpurnia's church,
there are elements both of class and racial bias. She believes that such behavior is "just
not done" by a Finch.
Likewise, whentakes the job of defender for Tom Robinson,
Alexandra views this task as somewhat below the status of an accomplished lawyer and member of
the political set of Alabama. She also it distasteful for a Southern gentleman to be involved
with the dealings of Negroes. She asks Atticus if there is any way he can avoid this
assignment.

What is the significance of the use of windows and doors in "The Metamorphosis"? I need to know about the use of doors and windows as motifs and how...

In one
sense, door and windows play a highly conventional role as motifs in 's novella,
, in that they figure as thresholds. They are boundaries between
experiential worlds (public and private, individual and collective), rather than merely means of
spatial demarcation. Kafka's originality lies in the multiple uses to which he puts these common
motifs. Here, I shall discuss windows first and then doors.

We hear of the
window in the 's bedroom very early on. Notably, the window is not used to signify a portal to
the outside world (which is appropriate as, for the moment, Gregor is completely absorbed in his
own experience) but rather as a repository of sounds that are an inducement to
melancholy:

The dreary weather (the rain drops were
falling audibly down on the metal window ledge) made him quite melancholy.

Here, neither the reader nor Gregor "sees" anything out
the window; rather, we "hear" it.

Kafka also uses the bedroom
window to signify Gregor's...

What is the falling point in Pygmalion?

I would
say it comes shortly after thein Act IV, when Henry suggests that Liza essentially prostitute
herself by marrying a rich man if she can find no other means of support.Liza has gained more
than a large vocabularly; she has gained self-respect.She shoots back at Henry: "I sold
flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything
else."

After Liza returns the ring Henry had given her and he throws it
into the fireplace, things are winding down, thus the "falling action."Act V will be
the actual , with Liza deciding that she will marry, but also teach phoentics, thus asserting
her independence but also securing a more comfortable future.

How would you compare and contrast the Wife of Bath with the old woman in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?

The
old woman in the Wife of Bath's story is one of several examples of the 'loathly lady'in
medieval poetry. Readers of the tale would have been broadly familiar with her story: she is
ugly, and indeed 'a fouler wight ther may no man devyse' (1005). She is also of low birth and is
older than the ideal wife, making her far from the preferred marriage partner for the knight who
weds her. The loathly lady knows, however, that despite these considerations, the knight has
made a binding promise to her, which she repeats before the court. She achieves her ends through
shrewdness and strategy. 

This level of strategy and cunning is one of the
reasons many comparisons have been drawn between her and the Wife of Bath herselfshe is also
skilled in, as is made evident in the speech she delivers to her husband on issues such as the
advantages offered by old age and poverty, and the true source of gentility. Like the Wife of
Bath, she is a woman above marriageable age who...

How does Susie feel about her father going through grief in The Lovely Bones?

It is clear that, as the
novel progresses and Susie's father becomes ever-more frustrated by his increasing certainty
that George Harvey committed the murder but without any evidence to prove it, he becomes more
and more isolated and slightly deranged. It is clear that his inability to let his daughter go
and move on results in the estrangement that his marriage suffers. Susie is shown to be
incredibly protective of her father as he goes through this period of his life. Note how she
describes a scene in her father's study:

In his low green
easy chair he now felt the most comfortable. It was where I often saw him sleep. The room like a
vault, the chair like a womb, and me standing guard over him.

Susie explictly reverses the normal father-daughter dynamic, as she becomes the
protector over her father and longs to see him move past this stage. The reference of the room
and the chair being like a "vault" and a "womb" respectively shows how Jack
seeks protection and safety from his study. The way in which Susie is shown to be her father's
protector demonstrates her own sadness and pity at how her father is showing his inability to
cope with her death.

What happened to "Annabel Lee?"

The speaker
begins the poem by recalling a time many years ago (like the beginning of a fairy tale) in a
kingdom by the sea where he an a maiden namedlived and were in love. Although they were only
children, their love was incredibly strong, so strong that angels were jealous of
them: 

But we loved with a love that was more than
love--

I and my ANNABEL LEE;

With a love that the winged
seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me. 

According to the speaker, the angels, in their jealousy, sent a wind from a
"chilling cloud" which led to Annabel Lee's death. The narrator repeats this
accusation, that the angels sent a wind to chill and kill Annabel Lee, evidently making her sick
enough to die and she is carried by her family ("high-born kinsman") to her tomb or
sepulchre. 

However, the narrator adds that their love was/is so strong that
neither the angels nor the demons (nor death) could ever separate his and Annabel Lee's souls.
After her death, he still sees/senses Annabel Lee in the moon beams, the stars, and the
sea. 

Modern Political Parallels? Give some examples from today's leaders who have used language to distort reality.

Everyone
is jumping on the Bush whacking (ha!) but sadly, he is hardly the first nor the last to use
language to distort reality for political power.  Bill Clinton famously parsed the little word
"is" into mincemeat.  Name Nixon rings any bells for anyone?  How about LBJ's fun
little incident called the "Gulf of Tonkin"? 

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm