Where we can find the American Dream in Of Mice and Men?

Furthermore, concerning the American Dream in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, the disparity between those who have it and those who don't is highlighted.

Curly behaves as he does because he can.  He's got the money and, therefore, the power.  He has the authority to fire the others on the ranch and uses it.  He certainly isn't more intelligent than the others, and is no way a better human being.  But he's got the money, and that's all that matters. 

And there isn't any way for those who don't have money to get it in the novel.  The American Dream is a pipe dream, and the economic system is unfair and leads to injustice.

What is the setting in the book Slam! by Walter Dean Myers?Please answer this question by March 15. Or as soon as possible.

This book (as the title would imply) is about basketball.  Or I suppose I should say it's about life, but told through the story of a basketball player.  Not surprisingly, then, it is set in the sort of place where "hoop dreams" are often a big part of teen life.  It is set in the inner city of New York, and specifically in Harlem.

The neighborhood where the main character lives has the usual set of problems that go with urban poverty.  There are drug dealers and crime and such and Slam, the main character, has to make his way through all of that (and other problems) to try to fulfill his dreams.

What is the exposition of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe?

Narratology is the discipline that studies the structure and function of a narrative. "Exposition" is an element of structure within the the study of narratology. For the sake of clarity, "narrative" is anything that offers or presents a story with a sequence of events in which characters are involved. Thus the three of the indispensable elements of narrative structure are: (1) events, (2) chronological/cause-and-effect sequence of events, (3) characters who are (i) agents causing events or (ii) victims effected by events or (iii) beneficiaries who are benefited by events. Some other indispensable elements of narrative structure are narrator's voice and narrator's point of view (these are referred to collectively as "narrative mode"). There are several theories of narrative structure. One commonly taught in school is Freitag's Pyramid structure of narrative. Bear in mind however that Freitag's is not the only theory of narrative structure.

In Freitag's Pyramid (also called "Triangle") theory of narrative structure, the initial element of structure is called "exposition"; other structural elements follow while exposition is the initial element. What this means is that the exposition, in Freitag's Pyramid model, is the first thing the reader/listener learns in the narrative. There are two qualifications to this. The first qualification is that since narrative is defined as events-sequencing-characters, many things can offer narrative, including but not limited to billboard signs, advertisements in magazines, comic strips or comic books, true-life adventures (or misadventures) and news reports of natural disasters, think, for example, of the narrative followed by the reports of the 2011 Japanese tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown. The second qualification is that Modernist and Postmodernist writers seek intentionally to undermine these narrative elements [scramble them up], especially chronological sequencing.

Knowing that these qualifications to narrative exist and that there are a number of theories of narrative besides Freitag's, the Pyramid offers exposition as the first step in narrative structure. What is exposition and how is it applicable to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by the genius of creepiness, Edgar Allen Poe? Exposition is the introductory material of a narrative, or story, in which the principle characters are introduced and in which the "backstory" or background information of the story is presented. The function of the exposition to to orient the reader/listener/viewer to the who and what of the story about to be told. The exposition can be complicated in some stories such as those that begin in medias res, in mid-event, because, in these, the backstory and introductory material may be delayed until after the immediate problem is resolved. For example, if a story starts during a Western shoot-out between Sheriff and bad guys, the exposition's introductory and backstory material will be delayed until after the shoot-out is settled.

In "Tell-Tale Heart," the exposition is spread out over the first three paragraphs and is complicated because it begins with a "frame" that complicates the chronological sequencing of the events. A "frame" is a story told in present, in the "now" of the story, about events that happened in the past, in the "then" of the story. In "Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator starts by questioning some unknown listener (not us) about why he is thought by the listener to be "mad" or insane. The rest of the paragraph adds to the introduction of this principle character, who doubles as the first-person narrator, and tells us about his personality traits: nervous yet calmly narrating, acute sensory perception, not mad. The second paragraph tells the backstory about the old man who "had never wronged" him, but whose eye was an offense, and introduces the conflict: "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." The third paragraph gives the implied setting: the house that the narrator and the old man share: "And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it."

Thus we have from the exposition of "The Tell-Tale Heart," in the three opening paragraphs, the (1) principle characters, the (2) chronological sequencing within a frame story (a story told from within another story: e.g., I'm not mad: let me tell you a story to prove it.), the (3) setting, the (4) conflict integral to developing the plot and the (4) background story, or backstory.

Interactive Explanation of Exposition

Cached PPT presentation with Freitag's Pyramid Exposition

How did George and Lennie meet?Thank you for answering my question!

George and Lennie met as a result of George originally meeting and getting to know Lennie's Aunt Clara. She was the woman who devoted a part of her life to rearing Lennie. Upon her death, George Milton became the guardian of Lennie, as his protector, as Lennie is of limited mental acuity.

Lennie’s full name in this novel by writer John Steinbeck is Lennie Small, the last name a literary device that is indicative of how the world sees Lennie as concerns his mental ability, but not how they see him physically, as he is of great strength.

George, through knowing Lennie’s Aunt Clara, came to know Lennie and agreed to take on the responsibility of caring for Lennie upon her death. Lennie and George have been friends since childhood. Later in life, this leads to George and Lennie traversing California in search of better job (and overall life) prospects. They dream of living peacefully and working off the land together – a quiet, humble life that is not to be for Lennie, and ultimately, maybe not even George when all is said and done in his life.

Describe how the 4 fundamental types of traditional crime (violent, theft, fraud, and illegal activities) can be committed using a computer...

The 4 fundamental types of traditional crime (violent, theft, fraud, and illegal activities) can be done via the following:

A) Violent crime- Can be done by harrasment, starting threads about people, creating hate groups and planning agendas.

B) THEFT- Identity theft, hacking bank accounts, hacking social security information, and hacking personal databases.

C) FRAUD- By using the stolen identity to purchase things or make negotiations, by pretending to be someone else, or by hacking someone's social network account to contact others.

D) Illegal activities- Selling medicine prescribed to other people, child pornography, human slavery, and illicit gaming.

Is a public good one in which no one owns the good,and is 2 examples of a public goods water and sand?

Public good is the kind of good which lacks both excludability and rivalry.

Excludability means you can prevent others from using the good. For example, I can block other people from using my pencil because that is a private good under my possession.

Rivalry means your use of the good diminishes other people's use. For example, the fact that I reserve a front seat in the movie theatre means someone else cannot sit in the front row.

An example of public good would be street lamp. You cannot prevent a person from benefitting from the streetlight. You take advantage of the light does not mean other people cannot gain from that good, either.

These traits of public goods often cause some people to become free-riders. Free-riders are those people who benefit without paying any price for it. For example, you cannot prevent an individual from benefitting from national defense.

Remember the key points: non-excludability, non-rivalry, and free-rider problems.

What are three character or personality traits for Kira, Thomas, and Matt in Gathering Blue?

Kira is resourceful--although she is crippled, she finds ways to make herself useful even as a child, gathering cloth scraps from the looms. She is hard-working, a constant help to her mother and a tireless weaver. She is compassionate, as shown in her concern for her mother and for Jo.

Matt is energetic and courageous, which he proves by daring to venture into the unknown to find "blue". He is also intensely loyal, which he proves by protecting Kira's things after her mother's death.

Thomas is intelligent and observant. He knows his way through the Edifice's maze-like interior, and is not afraid to consider ideas outside the norm. He is also deeply artistic, and notes that the more he works on the singer's staff, the farther he feels from his "gift".

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE INFLATION RATE IF IT GOES FROM 5% TO 4% AND THEN TO 6%?

The answer given above are true only if we do not consider the base figure over which the average inflation rate is calculated. But if we consider the change in base rates over three years then the average inflation rate will be different. To understand why, let us look at the following figures.

Let us average that the price index at the beginning of a year was 100. A 5% inflation will increase this price index to 105 at the beginning of the second year. A 4% increase in this index of 105 will be calculated as:

Price index at end of 2nd year

= Price index at beginning of 2nd year)*(100 + percentage rise)/100

= 105*(100 + 4)/100 = 105*1.04 = 109.2

Similarly Price index at the end of 3rd year

= Price index at beginning of 2nd year)*(100 + percentage rise)/100

= 109.2*(100 + 6)/100 = 109.2*1.06 = 115.752

Thus the total increase in price index in three years is 15.752%. This works out to simple average annual increase

= 15.752/3 = 5.25067%

If we want to calculate the compound rate of increase it will be

= [(115.752/100)^(1/3) - 1]8100

= 4.995%

What is the main theme of the book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?

I feel Miss Brodie's betrayal to her students, to her school, and to the profession of teaching is the main theme. She chooses her six favorite students and openly lets the other students know they are her favorites. Her abuse of Mary is inexcusable, especially because Miss Brodie starts it. She openly attacks and breaks the school's rules and policies. By her own example of her actions and words, Miss Brodie teaches her students betrayal and distrust.

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Crisis & Risk ManagementHow does a favourable prior reputation create expectations about how an organisation should respond to a company crisis?

The title give to the question., and the question it self do not seem to go well together.

To begin with crisis and risk management are two very distinctly separate functions. Risk management refers to actions that a company may take to reduce the losses incurred in future due to uncertainty of future developments and events. Crisis management refers to the way of dealing with a sudden major problem that need to be solved or suitably handled quickly.

Now coming to the main question, it is important that the way of handling a crisis and the implication of past reputation on appropriate response to a crisis will very much depend on the nature of crisis. For some types of crisis the past reputation may not have much implication while in others types of crisis it will make a big difference. For example if the crisis situation has been developed by a fire in the manufacturing plant the reputation of the company does not play very important role in nature of solution. But if the crisis has developed by a large consignment of a product of a food manufacturing company found to be infected, the reputation of a company will play a major role in determining the right approach to the crisis.

In general a good reputation may make handling of the crisis easier or difficult depending on the situation. A good reputation may increase the severity of a crisis when it tend to tarnish the good image of the company. In other case a good image among general may become an asset in handling opposition by a small but powerful group of people.

In "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner,the story is viewed as first-person point-of-view.How does the point of view support the story?What is...

The "we" is communal by definition, but I would argue the "we" proceeds from a singular person linking himself with the town as a whole. The voice is that of a gossip or self-appointed town-historian, lending the story an oral quality, which is also enabled by the circuitous (or at least unchronological) ordering of events.  If the "I" is behind the "we," the question of gender then presents itself:  is this a man or woman speaking, or is the voice sufficiently distinctive to leave such a trace in the text? I would argue that the voice is male, although that is an intuitive rather than strongly reasoned response, based in part on the way the narrator describes the townsmen investigating the smell around Emily's house: who could tell a lady her house smells, the narrator asks. Well, I don't think a woman would say that; I think a woman would wonder why no one confronted Emily with the smell. This is just one instance of several small clues that suggest this might be a male voice speaking for the community.

In Act Three of The Crucible, who are the court supporters, officers, ministers, judges, witnesses, opponents, and the accused?

Judges:  Hathorne and Danforth, who happen to be head judges of the state, and very well-respected and powerful men.  They run the proceedings, and have the final say in matters.

Court Officers:  Here you have two men that are mentioned--one is Marshall Herrick, who is in charge of enforcing the mandates of the court.  The other is Ezekiel Cheever, who is in charge of running errands for the court, and doing some of their arresting and investigating.

Ministers:  Reverend Parris of Salem, and Reverend Hale of Andover.

The accused:  Martha Corey, who we hear about in the opening act offstage.  Then, Giles Corey is accused of beligerence against the courts and arrested (for not giving the name of the witness against Putnam).  At the end of the act, John Proctor is accused of witchcraft.

Court opponents are John, Francis, Giles, in the begining Mary Warren (she turns for it at the end) and in the end Reverend Hale (he quits the court at the end of the act).

Court supporters are Reverend Parris, the judges and officers, and all of the girls.

I hope that helped--good luck!

What relevance does "A Modest Proposal" have for contemporary social and political issues?

Part of the relevance of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is that it shows us that almost any ridiculous idea can be argued for with what seems to be "logic."

Swift's solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland is to sell Irish children as meat to be roasted, and their skins to sold to be made into leather.  Of course this is absurd and Swift did not mean it seriously.  Yet, his essay is a model of logical construction and argument.

One aspect of his "logic" is his use of statistics.  Swift cites, among others, the following statistics:

a) the cost of raising a baby until the age of one year;

b) the total population of Ireland, and the percentage of whom are of child-bearing age;

c) the number of families who can support their children;

d) the average number of miscarriages;

e) the price that a young child could fetch if sold as a slave.

One could say that Swift's argument is "well-supported by statistics"; except, of course, that the argument is patently absurd.

Swift also uses the "logical" technique of discussing alternative solutions to the problem and showing how they are impractical.

He also makes a list of over six advantages that his proposal has.

Swift closes his essay with a bit of humble open-mindedness:

I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual.

The next time you hear a politician or radio host recommend a new policy, think about Swift's "Modest Proposal" and ask yourself: Is the policy truly sensible? Or, has the person proposing it merely clothed it with some statistics and pseudo-logic?

How did Americans justify dispossession of Indians and how did they attempt to avoid dispossession by adapting their culture to that of the...

The motivation was often plain economic greed, for land, for resources, for overland routes of settlement and transportation.  To justify this greed, a rather complex social system of racism against Indians was created and maintained, even encouraged by the government and society at large.  At the time of the Trail of Tears you mention, that racism against Natives was widespread and even typical in the views of most Americans.  So while the Supreme Court ruled the removal unconstitutional, Jackson could afford to ignore them because removal was so popular.

The other obvious justification besides outright racism was religion.  The idea that Natives were savages because they were not Christian, and because they worshipped many gods was written and spoken of widely in those days.  Killing and relocating heathens was not seen as an evil by many people.  Most Americans by the 1830's and 40's believed in the idea of Manifest Destiny, that God had blessed the white race with power and wealth, and therefore it was His will that we expand as a nation from coast to coast - through the Indian tribes if we had to - violently, and because of these justifications, largely guilt free.

How did the community respond to Reverend Hale's arrival in The Crucible?

Overall, the community felt that Hale was to be their savior. Much of the town had become hysterical over the "condition" of the girls, and Hale had the reputation of saving another community. Reverend Parris feels that by bringing Hale in, he will be seen as a hero. Hale is not a fraud, but he has very naive beliefs in his own ability to cure the situation, and quickly becomes overwhelmed by his inability to help.

Briefly comment on the 'reliability' and 'validity' of using the website linked below as an information source?Website -...

This website is a search engine for engineers. Its purpose, as stated on its website, is as follows:

GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. The company provides its buy-side users with domain-expert search engines, a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content and over 60+ product and industry e-newsletters that help engineers and related professionals perform their key job tasks with the highest levels of accuracy and productivity. GlobalSpec provides its sell-side client base of companies seeking to reach the worldwide engineering audience with highly filtered sales leads, product promotion and brand advertising platforms and a wide range of e-media advertising and marketing services.

So, as you can see, a primary purpose of the site is selling advertising and marketing. It does not appear to be a purely scholarly website because of this, although that does not necessarily mean the information you might obtain from the site is not valid or reliable.

You will need to determine what the requirements are at your college as to whether or not you are allowed to cite such websites. Some colleges have very specific rules about this, only allowing scholarly websites such as .gov, .edu, etc. in research and writing. Other colleges allow citations from such websites as long as the purpose of the website is made clear.

It really depends on your purpose. Think of it this way: you can cite a quote that you get from a newspaper's Op Ed section regarding President Obama's health care plan if you are researching different opinions regarding the plan, but if you use that same quote as supporting evidence for research regarding the actual provisions of the plan, it would not be appropriate - you would need something more scholarly and/or something that has validity, not just what a newspaper writer says about the health care plan. So the newspaper website might be OK to use for some things, but not for others.

If you are in an engineering program, you should check with your professors. They might know more about the website's validity and reliability. There are some online encyclopedias, for example, that allow anyone to go in and make changes. Although they have people that monitor this, such websites are not 100% accurate because of this and many professors do not allow citing them in research. Your professors would know more about this website and its pros and cons.

A good rule of thumb is to check more than once source for any information online. Just because something is online does not make it valid or reliable, same as with written material. You need to find out who writes the information, where it comes from, what the qualifications are of the people that write the information, etc., and your professors would know more about this than you would, most likely.

Modernity, what are the main disadvantages as we move forward?

Disadvantages of modernity: Until recently, I confused modernity with contemporary.  Contemporary is right now or recent.  Modern is everything since the Middle Ages.  Modernity started about the time Martin Luther nailed his post to the church door.  Modernity has resulted in changes in family values, social values, sexual morality, and a whole host of more.  The many changes did not take place the minute Martin Luther sunk his nail.  Some of them had already started.  Others are more recent.  Some are on-going, perhaps in all times, certailny in modern times.

The atomic family of modernity has benefited industry.  Small families without ties can move from where the jobs are drying up to where the jobs are being created.  The old traditional family with grandparents and great-grandparents, and unmarried aunts and cousins, could not easily move.  Industrialization has permitted many more people to exist within the same space (Earth).  Now-a-days we put Grandma in a nursing home and sedate her with drugs, and move on.

The contemporary college education typically teaches that if a value or idea or tradition cannot be subjected to experimentation and verification by the scientific method, then it should be dismissed.  That was the attitude that I left college with, but as I have gotten older, I realize that there are traditions (and formerly there were many more) that have withstood the test of time running for many, even hundreds, of generations.  What has been distilled from the experience of hundreds of generations should not be dismissed because it cannot be submitted to scientific test.

As a previous answer points out, people in traditional times acted much more according to what their community deemed proper; now-a-days, people are very individualistic.  A result of this and of our mobility is more crime, I believe, less strength as a nation, and I am not talking about armed might, I am talking about the strength of character that produces happiness and protects it for family and community and nation.  People who do not have strong family ties, do not, cannot, form strong ties to their community or nation, and cannot be depended upon to defend them.  Greece declined when too much individuality compromised the family and society.  Ditto for Rome.  America is following in their footsteps.

I have said enough to get your brain working.

Why does Shakespeare create three sets of father-son parallel pairs in Hamlet?

Interesting question! Shakespeare used parallels to illustrate a theme in his plays quite often.  In this case, the parallels give us contrasts (foils) to highlight the characteristics of each pair.

Polonius and Laertes demonstrate a father and son who care for each other, but Polonius is incredibly controlling over his children - he wants to make sure he has his fingers in their business at all times.  Despite that, though, Laertes is ready to avenge his father's death at the hands of Hamlet when he comes back to Elsinore.

Hamlet and old Hamlet demonstrate a devoted son who misses his father deeply and desires to avenge his death, but lacks the ability to act until it is too late.

Fortinbras, whose father was killed by old Hamlet, serves as another foil to Hamlet in that he is a man of action, having initially engaged in hostilities against Denmark after his father's death, and finally being able to take the throne when all is lost within the Danish royal family.

Check the links below for more information on these characters and how they are similar and dissimilar.  Good luck!

What is the potential motivation for hate crime?motivation

The motivation for hate crime are very much similar to the the motivation for other crimes to the extent that both are motivated by emotions like greed, jealousy, fear, and false sense of pride. The difference is only in the way these negative feelings are aroused and the person against whom the crime is directed.

In other kinds of crime the negative emotions are directed specifically towards the victim of the crime, and the person expects to gain directly by hurting the victim. But in case the negative feelings are not directed against a specific person but against a whole group to which the victim belongs, and the pay off from the crime are expected to be in the form of damaging and weakening the whole group in the long run. Thus a person who targets a person from a particular community for robbery is committing a crime of robbery, rather than a hate crime.

Also it is important to note that the hate in hate crimes is the result of prejudices and stereotypes. To begin with the assumptions or beliefs held about a community may or may not be correct. Even when correct these may be highly exaggerated. Then the difference that do exist may be really harmless. Finally, the particular victim of a hate crime may or may not posses the presumably offending trait supposed to be possessed by the whole group.

One motivation for hate crime that makes it particularly difficult to control it is the hate crimes committed in retaliation. This starts a long chain of attacks and counter attacks between different groups.

Help asap. poems: Sonnet, Sestina, Villanelle about Hamlet's & Ophelia's insanity trouble starting each?no

Well, I can't do your homework for you of course, but first, here are the formats for all three kinds of poetry:

* Sonnet (English or Shakespearean) is comprised of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter.  There is a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean/English sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

* Sestina is a very structured poem consisting of 6 six-line stanzas followed by a tercet, which is called its envoy or tornada, totaling of thirty-nine lines. The same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time.  English sestinas are traditionally written in iambic pentameter or another decasyllabic meter.

* Villanelle can only have two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains. These refrains alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. This poem form is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain.

Points you may want to consider about Hamlet and Ophelia's insanity for your poems:

* It's one of the great debates if Hamlet is actually insane or pretending all the way through the play.  It can definitely be argued that he starts by pretending he's insane and then becomes insane in actuality. 

* Ophelia definitely, however has her mind snapped starting with Hamlet's poor treatment of her and fully snapping when her father is murdered.  Whether or not she intentionally kills herself or not is also a matter of great debate.

* For poetic purposes, you may want to consider using Ophelia's drowning and Hamlet's discovery of her death (and his sickening realization that he drove the woman that he once loved to it) as your starting point.

I'm enclosing a modern student interpretation on Ophelia's death from Youtube to further inspire you!

What kind of language is used in the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?Is the language consonant with the figures of speech?

One of Donne's most eloquent love poems, "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," using language pulled from religion, Petrarch, astronomy, alchemy,  and geometry.

(1) Religion:  "Virtuous men whisper to their souls to go"; "twere profanation of our joys to tell the laity our love"

(2) Petrarch:  "tear-floods"; "sigh-tempests"

(3) Astronomy:  "trepidation of the spheres"; "dull sublunary lovers' love"

(4) alchemy:  "like gold to airy thinness beat"

(5) geometry:  "stiff twin compasses"; "thy firmness makes my circle just"

The language serves to evoke the idea that the love between the two lovers is spiritual, strong, private, perfect, and precious.  The language is perfectly matched to the figures of speech; in fact, it comprises the metaphors that Donne uses throughout the poem.

What is the resolution of "The Scarlet Ibis"?

Doodle, who has begged Brother not to leave him, dies.  Brother had been trying to teach him to row, much as he had taught him other things, like walking.  But Brother's motivations had never been altrustic.  He wanted Doodle to walk because he was ashamed of having a disabled brother. 

On this fateful day, the boys had been at a picnic with other relatives.  An odd noise from the garden leads to the discovery of the exotic bird, who is bleeding and dying.  Though warned not to touch the bird, Doodle takes it upon himself to bury it. 

Brother, aware that his sibling has been taking a steady turn for the worse health-wise, does not let up on Doodle.  After the burial, he insists the pair go out for a rowing lessons.  The storm, which had blown the scarlet ibis off course and probably killed him, is getting nearer to the lake where they are practicing.  Trying to make it home, Doodle pleads with brother to wait and help.  He does not.  When he realizes Doodle is too long in coming, Brother tracks back and finds Doodle dead, the stains on his clothing reminiscient of the dead, exotic bird they had just buried.  The comparision is too much for Brother too bear.  He breaks down, weeping.  It's all he can do. 

Who are the characters of The Lady or the Tiger?

The courtier is a young man who is imprisoned because he engaged in an affair with the king's daughter, the princess.

The king is a man who enjoys giving prisoners a choice as to their fate. He has developed a system that has the prisoner choose between two doors-one leads to freedom, the other to an arena and certain death. He takes vicious strides in choosing the tiger for the young man who engaged in an affair with his daughter. The other door has a lovely woman who he must wed should he choose that door.

The lady is the young woman who is behind the other door. She causes the princess much jealousy and anguish.

The princess is in love with the young man. Her red-hot jealousy is causing her to consider letting him go to the arena and be ripped apart by the tiger, rather than living with his marriage to another woman. The choice is never revealed to the reader.

What are some of the symbols in Light in August by William Faulkner?

The novel is rich in symbolism. A few symbols that come to mind that are present in most characters' stories are food, money, and the road.  Food, in the novel, seems to represent the characters' relationship to society.  Since each character is an outcast in some way, we see their perspectives on their status through food.  Christmas rebels.  He tells Byron to "keep your muck" when Bryon offers the starving Christmas his lunch at the planing mill.  He refuses to accept Mrs. McEachern's food, throwing it on the floor when she offers it to him.  At Burden's house, he again throws food against the wall, rebelling against Burden's increasing control of him.  Much can be learned about Christmas through the incidents that involve food.  He is rebellious, hostile, and alienated.  He will not accept handouts, charity in any way, and will not let himself be indebted to anyone.   Lena, on the other hand, accepts food offered to her by others, but she "et dainty." She is conscious of how she is viewed by others and though not completely comfortable eating with others, she stays serene and calm.  She even offers her sardines to another.  The way others react to her in these food incidents shows to some extent their judgment of her.  People are kind, but judgmental of her state as  pregnant and unwed.

Money symbolizes more a system of rewards and punishments. Christmas is bribed with a silver dollar at the orphanage, an act that leads to his subsequent lack of trust for women, whom he sees as unpredictable.  He stands up to McEachern when he sells his heifer and refuses to accept McEachern's beatings anymore.  And, of course, it is the reward money offered by Miss Burden's family that results in Christmas' ultimate capture and death.  But financial terms become much more symbolic of Faulkner's major ideas in Byron's discussions with Hightower.  Byron distinguishes good and bad men.  The bad men are the ones who do not pay the "bill." The good men are the ones who pay the bill when it comes around.  In this way, the bill represents man's responsibility to his fellow man.  The men with morals, like Byron, will attempt to act responsibly where there is a need, even if the need (or bill) is not his.

And of course the road is important in many of the stories as well:  Christmas goes in a circle; Hightower takes the short walk and  to Lena's cabin and back again; Lena and Byron head toward Tennessee at the novel's end.  Their paths in many ways mirror their progress, or lack of it, in finding the "light in August," or to "live in peace with his fellow man."  Christmas only goes round in circles and never really gets closer to this goal;  Hightower does come out of his isolation and returns a new man, but maybe too old and weak to do much else; Lena and Byron are moving on a path that will lead them to home and family.

What are the basic differences of Muslims and Hindus?

In my opinion, there is one difference between these two religions that dwarfs all others.  That is the fact that Islam is perhaps the most aggressively monotheistic religion in the world (except for, perhaps, Judaism).  By contrast, Hinduism is definitely not monotheistic.  (You can argue that it has one supreme god, but it is okay with the idea of many different deities of some sort).

A second, related, difference is that Hinduism is quite happy to have images of its gods.  By contrast, Muslims are very against anything that might seem to be idolatry.

How does Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter 5 of the great gatsby?I think this question is asking me about the style of narration in the chapter...

I think one of the best choices Fitzgerald makes is in having Nick leave the house while Daisy and Gatsby get re-acquainted.  It adds a touch of suspense for the readers who are curious to know how their conversation is playing out, but more importantly, it removes any speculation about whether or not their conversation is realistic.  If the readers were present for that conversation, there could be endless discussion on how "real" the dialogue is.  By removing Nick (our eyes and ears) we are left to simply accept that the reunion went fine.

Does/can liberalism ideology exist today? and what are the positive and negative issues does liberalism idelogy encounter?

If the question seeks to examine the viability of political liberalism, I would suggest that it can exist.  Having said that, I think it should be noted that it is challenged by many elements as it strives to exist.  The idea of being a "liberal" used to be seen as a bad thing in American Politics.  Some suggest that when then candidate George H.W. Bush branded fellow candidate Michael Dukakis as a "Card carrying member of the ACLU," it helped to label him as a liberal, something that he never quite escaped through the campaign.  Since the time of Regan, liberalism had been seen as quite a bad thing in American politics, something from which few could escape.  The American political landscape of the 1990s helped to move the political balance more towards the middle of the spectrum, with liberalism still being on the outside looking in.  The new era of politics, one that has seen the attacks of 9/11 as well as the current economic crisis, has softened its rebuke on liberalism to a certain extent.  The passage of health care initiatives as well as the passing of Senator Kennedy, affectionately called "the liberal lion," and the reexamination of values from the George W. Bush era have all helped to allow liberalism to be something that can be, once again, seriously evaluated as a political option.  However, it is one where individuals still throw "red meat" slogans such as "too much government is not needed" or "socialist" or "like Russia."  In this light, liberalism ideology can still exist today, but has to be politically savvy enough to be mindful of the criticisms that still exist against it and present itself as a viable political option for those who are in need.

Should we invest in social capital?

I assume that you are talking about social capital in the sense of social networks that make it easier for people to interact with one another.

If that is the definition of social capital, then I think that it is premature for the government, at least, to spend money to create it.  I have read pieces that argue that social capital is a good thing for businesses to invest in.  These pieces have argued that more connections between employees in a company lead to greater productivity.

I would say that this is an area in which we should let businesses invest if they like.  If their experiences show that social capital can have positive results, then it would be time for government to invest in it.

Did the first world war contribute to the second one? If so, what role did it play? WHAT WAS the relationship between World War I and World...

A lot of historians refer to the two world wars as one world war.  In other words, they say it was all one war with a 20 year peace in between.  So, that means that WWI had a great deal to do with WWII.

After WWI, Germany was treated very badly by the Allied Powers in the Treaty of Versailles.  They had land taken away from them and were forced to pay reparations to other countries, among other things.

This made Germans very angry.  They felt they were being unfairly picked on.  This helped Hitler come to power because he promised to make them strong again so they could avenge the insults from the Treaty.

So Germany started WWII largely out of anger about the treaty that ended WWI.

What is the effect of Fitzgerald's use of these loose/cumulative sentences in The Great Gatsby?We walked through a high hallway into a bright...

I've been rereading your question about the passage you quote from The Great Gatsby for the last 24 hours, trying to figure out the answer for you.  I'm not at all sure I've figured it out, but since no one has answered it yet, I decided to take a try at it. 

I think the sentences leading up to the final sentence create a soothing effect.  The images are presented in long, slow sentences that create the effect of a lull.  This mirrors Nick's pause as he listens.  The sentences seem to roll, like the sea that is mentioned, perhaps.  Contrast these sentences with short, simple sentences.  I cannot imagine the same effect being created here by short sentences.

The effect of the sentence structure changes in the last sentence, however.  To reinforce the "boom" of Tom's closing the window, the writer must destroy the illusion quickly, abruptly.  He manages this by compacting numerous details into the one sentence, the most important of which are the falling of the curtains, the rugs, and the two women.  The lull is over.  The more compact the destruction of the illusion, the more abrupt it seems, and the more Tom is revealed as the novel's destroyer of illusions. 

In Animal Farm, what resistance to the idea of rebellion do the pigs encounter in Moses the raven?

Moses is now the oldest surviving animal on the farm and he talks about having seen and heard of revolution for days gone by and he stands by his creed to change nothing in his life because he believes that no matter who is in charge nothing ever changes. As the story unfolds we can see that his beliefs that nothing changes is true. At first things seemed to be better, but in the end they were the same and eventually they were worse, but since Moses changed nothing, his life was far from altered by the events that took place on the farm. He was old enough to know that the faces might change, but the problems stay the same and there is no such thing as a perfect world. He has learned to be content with whatever his world looks like.

Comment on Wordsworth's treatment of Nature in "I wandered lonely as a cloud".

William Wordsworth's  lyric "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud," usually anthologized as "Daffodils" recaptures a moment of sheer ecstasy when he and his sister Dorothy saw the shore of a lake near Grasmere lined with daffodils during their walk on April 15, 1802.  The final version of the lyric was published in 1815.

A lyric represents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet as a response to an external stimulus. Some of the important features of a 'Romantic' lyric are as follows:

1. The Romantic lyric is a very 'personal' poem. It is characterized by the presence of personal pronouns 'I,' 'me,' 'my,' and 'mine.' This can be seen at the very beginning of the poem itself: "I wandered lonely as a cloud."

2. The Romantic lyric is an expression of the poet's own inner feelings and emotions. Wordsworth has recorded in his lyric his joy and happiness on seeing the daffodils: " a poet could not but be gay, in such jocund company."

3. The Romantic lyric is very 'physical', that is, the poet's physical senses are involved in experiencing the outside world. In Wordsworth's case it is the physical sense of sight: "when all at once I saw a crowd a host of golden daffodils."

4. The word lyric is derived from the Greek word 'lyre' which was a stringed musical instrument. So, literally a lyric 'is a song written to be sung to the accompaniment of the lyre.' Wordsworth's lyric can neither be sung nor can it be set to music. He has substituted a regular metrical pattern for the musical score. The musical architectonic has been replaced with all the lines of the four stanzas being iambic pentameter. Each stanza is made up of six lines with the first line of each stanza rhyming with the third and the second with the fourth and the stanza ending with a couplet. It is this regular pattern which is repeated throughout the poem which creates the music.

5. Wordswoth was a worshipper of Nature and this poem captures the natural beauty of the daffodils on the lake shore: "golden daffodils." The 'golden daffodils' give him more joy and happiness than all the wealth in this world. He expresses his love for the daffodils which represent Nature thus:

A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:

6. A Romantic lyric will be characterised by an excessive use of similes and metaphors as a means of conveying to his readers the poet's own feelings and emotions: "asa cloud." Wordsworth compares the seemingly endless extent to which the daffodils stretched across the lake shore to the galaxy of the Milky Way thus linking the terrestrial with the extra terrestrial

Act 3:Describe hor Paris and Hales`s attitudes are differen towards the accusation..And: How does Abigail turn the court against Mary?

Abigail turns the court against Mary by pretending that Mary is sending her spirit out on her. She gets all the girls to go along with it and Danforth believes it.

In Act III, Hale really begins to question the accusations in the court. He is seeing how righteous people, like Rebecca Nurse, being accused. Paris is just worried about his reputation which is linked to Abigail and his daughter Betty. He is completely behind the girls and isn't bothered by the accusations. He keeps trying to convince Danforth that Proctor and others are trying to bring the court down.

How women are responsible for female foeticide?

You can, of course, say that women are resonsible for aborting female fetsuses because, ultimately, they are the ones who must allow the procedure to be done to them.  However, this is not a very convincing argument to me because they can surely be forced to have the procedure.

You might also argue that women are responsible for accepting cultural ideas that say that females are worth less than males.  You can say that such an idea could not exist if the female half of the population really pushed back against it.  I do not know that this is truly a good argument, but it is more convincing than the first.

What are psychological aspects of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?

Some of the psychological aspects found in Pride and Prejudice are identity of self, problem solving, and expression of feelings.

Self-identity: Both Elizabeth and Darcy experience changes in self-identity. At the beginning of the book, Elizabeth prides herself in her abilities to discern both the positive and negative character traits of individuals. As the novel progresses, she learns that she was actually deceived and that all of her judgements are based on prejudice. Darcy feels that his pride in his social station, manners, education, and moral standing are not out of place, and he is right. However he fails to see that he actually behaves with conceit. By the end of the book, Elizabeth has shown him how to be more accepting of others and more civil.

Problem Solving: The psychological aspect of problem solving is especially seen in Darcy's behavior. After Elizabeth rejects him, accusing him of being prideful and conceited, Darcy changes his attitude. We first witness this change when Darcy encounters Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle Gardiner while they are touring Pemberley. Darcy asks to be introduced to Elizabeth's relations. The narrator points out that Darcy shows surprise at learning that these are Elizabeth's working-class relations, but quickly recovers and converses with them, even inviting Mr. Gardiner to fish on the estate. We also see Darcy solve a problem by rescuing Elizabeth and her family's reputation by forcing Wickham to marry Lydia.

Expression of feelings: Throughout the entire novel, we see many feelings being expressed, including, embarrassment, romantic love, sisterly love, heart break, sorrow, and worry.

In A Rose for Emily, what contrast does the narrator draw between changing reality and Emily's refusal or inability to recognize change?

The narrator uses the setting to draw attention to the fact that Miss Emily cannot and does not change.  Her house is described as having fallen into disrepair, the once white house is in bad need of a paint job.  The neighborhood in which the house is located was undoubtedly one of the best but the narrator drops little hints as to the current situation by telling us that gasoline pumps and cotton gins are now nearing her property. This tells the reader that the neighborhood has lost some of its affluence. 

As the narrator goes into the history and story of Miss Emily, we see her in her natural setting. In other words, she fits into the setting of the town as a young woman.  However, as the town grows and develops, she does not. In this case, she represents the 'Old South'.  Although not specifically stated why, we know that she has been given a reprieve from paying taxes by the Colonel.  As the town grows and new town leaders come into office, they find her reprieve to be a relic of and antiquated in unjust system of favouritism.  This also shows a contrast between new and old.  

To sum up, the setting contrasts and highlights Miss Emily's inability to change with the rest of the town who do change.  We see this in both physical descriptions of the town and in the situation described above concerning the new town officials. 

In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," what is the Misfit's favorite saying and what does it mean?

The Misfit says that "Jesus threw everything off balance" and that he shouldn't have done it.

By connecting his life with Jesus dying for everyone's sins on the cross, he is trying to relate his story with that of Jesus. Jesus committed no crime in the eyes of most Christians and at least no crime that you could prove and similarly, the Misfit does not understand why a crime was put on him. He says, the difference is "they could prove I had committed one because they had papers on me." He likens his being put (he feels) unjustly in prison with Jesus' being put unjustly to death.

To the Misfit's mind, because Jesus committed no crime and was put to death this altered the balance of things. The Misfit believes you should be punished in relation to the suffering you have endured. "I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment." Therefore, he sees nothing in life to prevent him from doing wrong if he is going to be punished no matter what he does.

The Movie of To Kill a Mockingbird Why did the director purposely film this movie in black and white?

The film was filmed in black and white in order to give the characters the definition and not the scenery.  While it is critical to the film to see the small southern town, Lee did not want the film to reduce the significance of the characters.  She wanted Atticus to be viewed with the respect he need.

The other reason was the film like the town was divided in the two colors which set the tone for the story in general.  It was a good choice because the film style made the film all the better and more captivating.

In Ishmael what does Gorilla represent?

The gorilla could represent a variety of images or ideas. Let's think of the purpose of the book. Dan Quinn wants to convey that humans cannot sustain themselves at their current rate of consumption. Humans take resources from the earth and leave waste at a rate that is unseen among any other living thing in the world. This is likely a cause of what today's population values. For example, in their process of consumption, Quin points out on pages 218- 227 of Ishmael, that humans today focus on accumulating knowledge on what works well for things (i.e., a factory, a car, etc.) while human tribes before the year 8500 BC would accumulate knowledge on what worked well for people. In other words, the former focuses on materials while the latter focuses on people.

Before our culture changed into what it is today, humans use to hunt and gather their food, changing locations as weather conditions and food supplies shifted. They were part of the earth, just as a fish is part of the sea or buffalo is part of the prairie. They lived in concert with the earth, taking only what was needed.

So how does all this relate to your question? The gorilla is not open and free and in the wild. He speaks to the protagonist only through a cage. The gorilla has been taken from his natural habitat in order to improve what works well for things (in this case, the thing is a zoo and later a circus). This caging leads to the gorilla's acute physical sickness. Nonetheless, throughout the story the gorilla is conveyed as a master teacher and as sage-like in his wisdom. Thus the gorilla symbolizes humans in their current state. Humans are a caged animal, no longer free to live as were intended. Consequently, we (or at least our habitat, the earth) are getting sick. So why didn't the protagonist simply speak with another insightful human throughout the story about the condition of ourselves and the environment? Probably because the gorilla is still a wild animal and, like all other wild animals, can speak from the perspective of a species that still lives with the earth.

Can you give me a few examples of courage from "To Kill A Mockingbird" with evidence from the book for each example?

The scene of attack at the end of the book is a great place to look for courage.  Jem in this scene has the courage to fight the attacker and protect his sister - he only stops when his arm breaks.  Boo Radley has the courage to step in and fight for the children as well, ultimately saving them from Bob Ewell.

The character of Boo Radley exemplifies courage.  He is alienated by the town, either ignored or feared.  He grew up with an abusive and controlling father.  Despite these things, he shows a strong sensitive and compassionate side.  He has the strength to reach out to the children, leaving them gifts and protecting them when needed.  He has the courage to face a whole room of people when he carries Scout home from the attack.  A quiet courage, maybe, but courage still.

One example you might not have considered is the courage of Mayella Ewell.  She has the strength to face the town in the courthouse and submit to Atticus' cross-examination.  She has the courage to stick to her story when Atticus begins to show the holes in it.  It may not be a wise move, but her actions in court are courageous.  She is, after all, doing what she has to do in order to protect herself.

Justify Miss Hardcastle's stooping down to conquer Marlow's heart.

Kate wants a man to marry her for love, not because of her social position. By pretending to be a barmaid, she can get to know Marlowe's true character. Barmaids and lower level women were the object of sexual harassment quite often. Marriage-especially in this story- was a formal, business-like arrangement, not a romantic connection. Kate does not want someone to marry her for this reason.

Marlowe has an attraction to "barmaid" Kate. They enter into a smitten friendship. Eventually, Marlow realizes that he loves her, and wants to marry her despite her social status. He knows that his family will not allow it.

In the end, Kate constructs a way for people to see that Marlow truly loves her-not her appropriate social status.

If Kate had not stooped to deception, she would always have doubts about the sincerity of her husband. Social restrictions made it impossible for two people of a certain class to form an intimate relationship. By pretending to be of a lower social class allowed her to escape this restriction. 

Explain why Puritans revolved around religion by using a quote from Act 1.

The Puritans life revolved around religion because it helped them define life.  Good things that happened were from God and the bad things were from the Devil.  They had a constant fear of Satan and looked for him in everything and clung to their God out of a desire for safety.  Hale displays this attitude soon after his entrance in Act I scene I when he gets out his book to look up signed of the devil:

Hale: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated.   In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brude disgiuses.  Here are all your familiar spirits.... Have no fear now - we shall find him out if has has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face. 

Here Hale shows how fear of Satan propels these people into a legalistic type of Christianity that permeates their whole lives.  The turn to relgion in fear, not love.

Please give background information about "A Rose for Emily".

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," like much of Faulkner's fiction, occurs in the South following the Civil War.  The war devastated the South's economy, and the town is trying to recover from that devastation.

Emily would have grown up in the ante-bellum South, before the Civil War.  That was when her family was wealthy, we assume.  She is poor in the story's present, after the economy has crashed. 

This setting feeds into her refusal to give up the past.  She clings to her father, to her home, to Homer, as many in the South following the Civil War tried to hold on to a past they saw as glorious. 

Calpurnia lectures Scout on manners when Scout criticizes Walter's manners and Atticus supports her.What does this tell you about how both...

Calpurnia occasionally expresses her opinions about people and things in Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird, but she knows where to draw the line as far as old fashioned manners are concerned. Calpurnia may not think highly of old Mr. Radley, and she plainly says so--but not to his face nor inside the Finch house. When Scout ridicules young Walter after inviting him for lunch, Calpurnia spells it out plainly for Scout.

"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' company, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and mighty!"

Calpurnia has had to deal with the problems of being a black woman in the white world of Maycomb, and she recognizes the different classes of people there, but she--like Atticus--treats all people like there is only one kind of people. She tries to show Jem and Scout the expected ways of behavior for proper ladies and gentlemen in true Victorian / Deep South fashion. She is, above all else, the woman of the Finch household. Atticus obviously approves of her methods, since he defends her right as a part of the family to Aunt Alexandra, and allows her the powers of surrogate mother to his children. It is obvious that Atticus is blind to both class and color barriers, since he treats everyone equally.

What did FDR mean when he said, "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds"?i have to make a speech on this quote so i'd...

What President Roosevelt is saying in this quote is that we are able to affect our own destinies.  We are not controlled by fate.

Many people blame their problems on fate.  When they do this, Roosevelt says, they are imprisoning themselves. They become prisoners of their own minds because their minds are stopping them from achieving everything they could.

An example of this from my own life is that, for a long time, I thought I could not lose weight -- I thought my body wouldn't let me.  So that's like blaming fate.  But then I found out I could lose weight.  That showed that when I thought I was a prisoner of fate (making me fat) I was really a prisoner of my own mind.

What is the import of Macbeth's commands about Macduff's family?

In giving his order to “give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword / His wife, his babes, and all the unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line,” Macbeth demonstrates his new resolution “To crown [his] thoughts with acts, be it thought and done,” which means he wants to demonstrate his power even as an idea arises in his head.  He has now defined himself as a man of action (The flighty purpose never is o’ertook / Unless the deed go with it”) in response to his recent encounter with the witches, who have shown him the row of kings of which he is not one. This encounter with the witches signifies his intent to work with their magic to fulfill his ambitions—he actually seeks their advice, and having done that, he is ready to do whatever might be necessary to terrify others, hoping this weapon of fear will strengthen his ability to hold on to his power.  This man is, after all, first and foremost a warrior, and the thinks in terms of a warrior. That is part of his tragic flaw: it once made him great, but now has brought about his downfall. All quotes are from 4.1.145-155

What do the opening stage directions indicate about the playwright's style and dramatic technique?

At first, the stage directions convey a lot of detail about the setting, for instance this rundown quarter of New Orleans is ironically named ‘Elysian fields’, yet Blanche discovers it does not match her expectation of a paradise, foreshadowing a tragedy. In fact, instead of being a place of eternal rest, the ‘Elysian fields’ is a multi-cultural, vibrant and sensual place with the ‘blue piano’, evoking sexual tension.  One of her first acknowledgement to the setting is disorientation and confusion, as she cannot believe where she has just arrived, repeating ‘Elysian field’ in disbelief, which also emphasizes how at odds with this place the protagonist is. The way he depicts the opening scene also helps create a powerful contrast between Blanche and her surroundings. At this time, social distinctions were ignored. Therefore, black people where having relationships with whites, and members with different ethnic groups played poker as well as bowled together. As Blanche arrives at Stella’s apartment, she immediately becomes the antagonist of the setting. Moreover well a claustrophobic sense develops through Blanche’s reaction to the place. The confined setting of two-room apartment creates an oppressive heat, and hence, Blanche feels overwhelmed. Her incredulous questions to her sister about the apartment immediately cause tension between the two characters and there’s a sense of blanche has walked into a cage, which is the opposite of her expectation.

What does the reader learn from Bob Ewell's evidence? chapter 17 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

One of the methods of characterization is the use of dialogue.  When Harper Lee has her character, Bob Ewell on the witness stand, the reader, both through the eyes of the narrator Scout as well as from his/her own perceptions, learns several things.

First of all, it is apparent that Bob Ewell has decided upon what he is going to say long before he is called to the witness stand.  However, he is not astute because he has not considered the fact that Tom Robinson could not have blackened Mayella's right eye.  Also, his cunning is inadequate as he has not considered the black eye nor has he rehearsed the statements he will make with Mayella in order to be certain that their proported testimony matches.

Also, that he wishes to prove that he and his family are superior to the Robinsons, Ewell makes such statements as his description of where they live:

I knowed who it was, all right, lived down ounder in that n--nest, passed the house every day.  Jedge, I've asked this county for fifteen years to clean out that nest down yonder, they're dangerous to live around'sides devaluin' my property--

That Bob Ewell has no respect for his daughter is indicated in his testimony by his choice of words.  He says that Tom was "ruttin' on my Mayella!" and that he heard her "screamin' like a stuck hog inside the house--"  Ewell is obviously very crude and very ill-educated.  In addition to his diction that clearly indicates his ignorance, he does not understand why the jury and Mr. Gilmer are interested in what hand he uses to write.  When Atticus asks him if he is ambidexterous, Ewell glares at him and replies,

I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other.  One hand good as the other.

He does not realize that he has sealed the truth of his cruel treatment of his daughter as well as having raised doubt in the credibility of his testimony since he has lied about Mayella's right black eye.

  Still, in his twisted pride, he "regarded Atticus with haughty suspicion" since he suspects that Atticus will try to trick him (not realizing that he has already been tricked).

Indeed, with the dialogue in Chapter 17, the reader learns much about Bob Ewell.

Explain: at room temperature, methane(CH4) is a gas but water is a liquid.If possible, explain with reference to their molecular structure (shape)

It is known that water molecule consists of 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen, united by a covalent link, forming on the layer of valence 8 electrons (2 electrons from hydrogen with 6 electrons from oxygen ) and methane gas (CH4) has 4 atoms of hydrogen and  1 atom of carbon, still forming a covalent link, also with 8 electrons in valence layer (4 electrons from hydrogen and 4 from carbon ).

The chemical bonds pattern, especially localized valence bond model, it has nothing to do with the state of aggregation, melting point, etc.

Water is a liquid, with high boiling point due to hydrogen bonds between molecules,which are leading to molecular associations. Methane, having carbon as central atom, which is less electronegative as oxygen,it cannot form hydrogen bonds, so that the molecules cannot link together, leading to a lower boiling point.

What are some main points of "The Jungle"?

If you are looking for themes, two of the main ones are naturalism, the pursuit of the American Dream, and socialism.  Sinclair demonstrates naturalism when he portrays the characters as animals who cannot control themselves.  Jurgis looses his temper on several occasions and lashes out.  He also becomes an uncontrollable alcoholic for a period.  All of the characters are victims of their environment (Stanislovas being eaten by rats, etc).

The character pursuit of the American Dream is also a theme.  The family immigrates to America for a better life.  They believe they can have a house and jobs, but they realize quickly that the dream is an illusion.  

Sinclair's answer to the failed American Dream is socialism which is presented in the last section of the novel.   Jurgis is attracted to the philosophy because he can see how it would have helped his family.  It attracts the common worker with promise of equalizing everyone.  The novel ends on a hopeful note as Jurgis joins the socialist movement. 

What is the importance of mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA)?I am taking an Anthropology class and this is the only chapter giving me trouble...heredity...

Mitochondrial DNA is the genetic material from mitochondria, which is the cellular organic cell, responsible for generating the necessary energy. It is similar to bacterial DNA,but the is a bicatenary circular molecule, closed, without extremities.

It's important feature is that mitochondrial DNA does not recombine. The only changes that can occur in mitochondrial DNA are summarized exclusively as mutations transmitted over generations, but also within a single generation.

When a sperm fertilises an egg,it falls off it's tail and all cellular material, except the  nucleus that contains all the hereditary information (nuclear DNA). This means that dropping off the rest of the cellular material, it drops off the mitochondria,also. The only mitochondrial DNA which is occurring is the one from the egg content.Hence, we conclude that hereditary mitochondrial genetic information is transmitted to generations, only by maternal path.

Thus, it was developed the theory of primordial existence of a mitochondrial DNA, called mitochondrial Eve.

What is the meaning of the ring parable in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan the Wise?

In Lessing's play Nathan the Wise, Nathan is summoned by Muhammadan (Muslim) Saladin in order that Saladin might borrow money to continue fighting against the Crusader knights. Saladin wanted to unnerve Nathan and thereby put him at a disadvantage in the money lending negotiations, therefore he asked Nathan, who was also called "the Wise," to explain the paradox of there being three very different but self-attributed "true" religions. Saladin's paradox of course referred to Jewish, Christian, and Muhammadan (Islam) faiths.

To answer how three equally true yet different religions could exist, Nathan told the parable of the ring in which a father who loves all three sons equally gives each a copy of the authoritative family ring that bestows the right to rule upon the wearer. The moral of the parable was that in another time far removed from the time in the parable, the answer to the paradox would be fully revealed. The implication is that humankind's knowledge and capacity for knowledge are limited and imperfect, therefore one must do the best one can to rule justly and with compassion and love within one's own province. Nathan equated this parable with God's equal love for all people and God's expectation that all people live according to justice, mercy, compassion, kindness, and love.

Why did Gatsby have a lot of rumors about him?What were the rumors that was said about Gatsby?

Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby has carefully crafted his persona, apparently, before Nick ever meets him in the narration we read.  He is purposely mysterious, partly, as far as we can tell, because of his business, which he, we assume, wants to keep secret.  It seems important for him to keep a low profile, at least as far as business is concerned. 

His mystery also comes from the fact that in some circumstances he is reticent and shy.  He is not comfortable in some social settings.  Even at his well-attended and lavish parties, he barely talks to anyone.  He seems to live very much within his own mind. 

Part of his living within himself is also due to his obsession with Daisy.  If you are not Daisy or somehow connected to Daisy, he really doesn't have any natural interest in talking to you. 

Finally, his mystery is designed to captivate, specifically to captivate Daisy.  Gatsby has an aura about him.  He seems bigger than life (he is referred to as "great" in the title, though this is partially ironic), and he has to be, he thinks, to recapture Daisy.

Gatsby's own mystery, then, lends itself to rumors.  You put a bigger-than-life figure in a mansion frequented by wealthy guests, and you will get rumors.  Especially when he keeps his business affairs secret and his thoughts to himself.

What happens to boxer? Why is this so tragic?

The greatest tragedy of the book is what happens to Boxer. There are two famous mottos of Boxer. He says: "I must work harder," and "Napoleon is always right." 

These two quotes shows what Boxer is about. He is a hard working animal. The more difficult the work, the more he will dig deep inside and find the strength to do it. He is a work horse, literally. Second, he is loyal. He is one who truly believes in the revolution. In fact, he is the most loyal animal on the farm. 

In view of this, we would expect him to be honored, but he is not. When he grows ill and sick, the pigs do not take care of him. They used him in the past and they will use him now. They sell him to the knackers and they will boil his body and make glue. He is completely expendable and nothing of his labor remains. It is as if he never lived. By far, he is the most tragic, because he was sincere in all that he did and completely taken advantage of. 

Which characters in Moliere's Tartuffe exemplify the theme of Religious Hypocrisy versus True Christian Virtue and how do you see this?

The title character, Tartuffe, is the character who exemplifies religious hypocrisy in Moliere's play. He lays claim to Christian acts , such as giving charity to the poor and unfortunate, when, in fact, he is engaged in immoral practices or acts, such seduction of a friend's wife. He also presents himself as a moral authority for those beneath him, giving them instruction in how to behave when his behavior is a moral shame.
The character Cléante is the representative of true Christian values and expounds to Orgon on the fact that true Christianity doesn't make a display of itself but lives a quiet virtuousness and practices what it preaches. He later remonstrates with Organ when the latter shows a vindictive retaliatory attitude toward Tartuffe who has been arrested. Cléante admonishes that true Christian values require them to hope for Tartuffe's repentance and for a lighter sentence to be past for his punishment.

How do I write a topic sentence and a concluding sentence in a short essay?I have to write essays with one topic sentence, 3 reasons with 2 details...

When writing a topic sentence you have to determine first what you want to discuss.  For example; There are two types of plants, perennial and annual. 

Next you said that you needed to develop at least three sentences.  Before I even added my topic I thought out things about it.   I know the following;

-perennial plants continue to grow

-annual plants have to be replanted yearly

-both are attractive in gardens

Now I have to add three sentences to my topic sentence.

There are two types of plants that can be put in a garden perennial and annual.  Perennial plants will continue to grow year after year.  Annual plants die out at the end of a season and need to be repurchased for planting the following year. No matter which type of plant a gardener decides to purchase, the plants are offered in beautiful varieties.

Now I need a closing sentecne.  I want to look at my topic sentence to renew my information.  For example:

Using both perennial and annual plants will make a garden beautiful and allow for some plants to continue to grow while others will need yearly replacement.

There are two types of plants that can be put in a garden, perennial and annual.  Perennial plants will continue to grow year after year.  Annual plants die out at the end of a season and need to be repurchased for planting the following year. No matter which type of plant a gardener decides to purchase, the plants are offered in beautiful varieties.  Using both perennial and annual plants will make a garden beautiful and allow for some plants to continue to grow while others will need yearly replacement.

What is the significance of what Cherry and Ponyboy say about the sunset in The Outsiders?

Ponyboy expresses clearly his observations on their discussion of the sunset.

"It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."

Cherry and Ponyboy have an obvious and instant attraction despite the complex difficulties of their affiliations to the Soc's and the greasers. They are able to share personal observations on their lives and the restrictions they face despite their problems being so diverse. The significance of their discussion of the sunset is that firstly they realize that there are things bigger than the petty disputes which their lifestyles force them to be caught up in. Also, the sunset is a way in which despite the polar opposites of their existence, they do have some commonality as part of the bigger picture, and that both gangs exist under the same sun, in the same world, however different their respective parts are.