Is Neddy trying to cover up his true weak, unlikeable, poor self with this heroic, athletic, wealthy image?

By the end of the story, the reader realizes that Neddy is not really trying to cover up the weak and poor image. Neddy has lost touch with this aspect of his life, whether through denial or a nervous breakdown.  He genuinely thinks of himself as a heroic and strong person - which may be one of the reasons that led to his financial ruin, but most everyone around him (and the reader) realizes how pitiful he really is.

Neddy does appears heroic and strong as he heads out on his adventure to swim the river Lucinda.  Yet, at each stop, we learn clues about Neddy's fate.  He crosses an empty horse riding range belonging to the Welchers, yet he cannot remember what happened to them.  Obviously, something has happened to his memory.  This causes us to question Neddy's perspective on things?  The Hollerans tell Neddy that they are sorry to hear about his troubles.  Neddy appears to have no idea what they are talking about. The Biswangers, who used to be socially inferior to him, now treat him badly.  His old mistress rejects him. 

Ultimatley, he arrives at his house - vacant and locked - and the true nature of his despair is evident: he is evicted from his own life.  This story is powerful in its examination of a man who believes his life to be one way, yet through the story itself, the reader is able to see that it is not that way at all.  Worse yet, Neddy seems incapable of realizing that.

When Orwell finds the elephant, what two reasons does he give for not wanting to shoot it?

Orwell states that one should not shoot a working elephant, because it is like shooting an expensive piece of machinery. He also believes his attack of "must" is wearing off, as the elephant is calmly eating. Orwell feels that he will just wander off.

What is the "Algernon-Gordon Effect" in "Flowers for Algernon?"

The "Algernon-Gordon Effect" is the discovery that Charlie makes regarding the fact that his intelligence gain was only temporary.  It is the name of a report that he writes for the Welberg foundation that says that all the intelligence he gained will eventually be lost and that the speed of the loss increased the more intelligent one became from their previous level.  In short, the smarter you got, the faster it would all go away.  Ironically, as his intelligence slipped away Charlie would eventually not even be able to read his own report.

Do you consider Tom Walker better or worse than the other prominent Puritans in Boston? Consider the evidence.this is the evidence.. -the puritans'...

I don't think that Irving intends for Tom to be viewed as better or worse than the other Puritans in the story.  Tom is simply another somewhat religious hypocrite that Irving satirizes.  While Tom does prey on his fellow townsmen and church acquaintances, taking advantage of them even when they are in dire straits, his "sin" is no worse than the other greedy Puritans who grab land from other humans or who judge others even though they are just as guilty of the same type of sins.

The commonality between Tom and the other Puritans/townleaders in the story is that they are all selfish characters who greedily take what they want and think nothing of how that might harm someone else.

Humorous as Irving's story might be, when coupled with some of Hawthorne's stories/novels and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it does cause readers of American Lit to view the Puritans in a negative light.

Kate and captain Keller are really pleased with the changes in Helen. how has Helen changed during her two weeks in the garden house?

Without language, it is very hard for someone to express themselves. When one is unable to express themselves, they often act out in some way. Helen was acting out because she did not know better and did not have language.

Before she was put in isolation with Ms. Sullivan, she acted out by being very aggresive, didn't have good manners, and was short-tempered. For example, during meals, she would walk around and take food off of others' plates with her hands. She didn't know any better and nobody tried to teach her, because really how could they teach her? The answer is they couldn't. Instead of trying to teach Helen the correct way to handle a situation or the correct way to hold herself, they just let her have her way. This prevented temper tantrums. The parents had language, but not a language Helen could learn. Helen had no language. This was a huge barrier.

Helen emerged from her two week isolation almost a "different person." She was more calm, and had a good foundation of manners and etiquette. She still had a ways to go, but she had a good foundation on how she was supposed to act and also had infinitely more language.

How to teach conversation and make it understood to intermediate level?i.e. what are the best methods.. the way that are intersting,good and...

Regarding conversational exercises in a foreign language--the words conversational and intermediate level suggest this may be so--,a good way to get students started (or restarted) is to engage have them speak about their own interests, activities, etc.  Pairing students together has been effective for me, personally, since two or three do not do the work for a lazy one, for instance.  When there are only two students, one asks questions and the other responds and vice versa.

Pairing a strong student with a weaker or reluctant one also encourages the weak/reluctant student to engage in conversation.  Always peers are less threatening as tutors/teachers than the real one!

On the intermediate level, creating situation cards and passing them to a group of three works sometimes.  For instance, two students are friends in a cafe and the third is the waiter/waitress; two people are tourists and the third is the concierge at the hotel, etc.

When trying to get the students to talk with the teacher, the instructor can allow them to use English for the words that they do not know.  That is, the student must try to say most of his/her thoughts in the target language, but may insert English for a few words/phrases.  Often students are not secure enough to say everything in the language, so they just say nothing.

How does rust form?

Rust is a common term used for the corrosion of iron and its alloys (i.e. steel), formed by the reaction of the iron with oxygen.  Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass eventually converts entirely to rust and disintegrates. 

The rusting of iron is an electrochemical process in which electrons are transferred from iron to oxygen.  The result is a reddish-brown residue produced by the breakdown of the iron molecules.  If allowed to progress, it eventually compromises the integrity and strength factor of the iron mass to the point where breakage or failure can occur. 

Rust is a serious, often dangerous factor to contend with when building large metal structures!  So, many anti-rust agents have been developed over the years to apply to iron-containing metals in an effort to slow down or prevent rust's occurrence.  Such products or agents include, but are not limited to:  rust-inhibiting paint, polymer coatings, zinc and tin electroplating, bluing, and dehumidification. 

On small metal surfaces, rust can be removed by the application of steel wool or various other metal polishing compounds (i.e. WD-40).  With a little time and "elbow grease", a shiny surface can usually be restored to its original luster.

What was ironic about the animals working on the windmill on Sundays?

One of the first changes for the animals after the rebellion was the ability to have Sundays off from work. Now, with the pigs in control, they "ask" the animals to work on Sunday. It is phrased a a strictly voluntary commitment, but any animal not working on the windmill has his rations cut in half.

The work on the windmill is the main focus on the farm and it is starting to fall apart. The building of the windmill was supposed to alleviate hard labor for the animals, yet it is more of a hardship than before.

Another irony to their working on Sunday is that it is "voluntary". The animals are not forced to work on Sunday if they do not want to, but if they do not volunteer, then their food rations are cut in half. The irony being that they really have no choice in the matter, as they are punished with their food rations if they do not work.

How did the Opium War affect China (The Opium War of 1839?)

The establishment of the Canton trading system in China saw a dramatic rise in the import of opium via the British East India Company. The widespread smoking and trading of opium not only threatened public health, but also damaged the national economy as Chinese silver, which served as payments for British opium imports, flowed out of the country rapidly. In 1838, the Qing Emperor, Daoguang, decided to take a hardline stance against the opium trade and appointed a Fujian scholar, Lin Ze Xu, to end the practice of opium trading in Canton. Lin initiated a campaign against opium trading and smoking in the city, which was carried out firmly and successfully by his subordinates. The British, angered at the loss of profits from the burning of opium, responded militarily by sending in four British fleets to blockade the entrance to the Canton harbour, leading to the outbreak of the Opium War. Severe fighting between the British troops and the Chinese forces lasted for two years, ending with the defeat of the Qing army. The victory of the West was a wake-up-call for China - the Manchu troops were clearly no match for the new and powerful weapons that the British had. The capture of Nanjing in 1842 prompted the Qing government to quickly sue for peace, which led to the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, and ended China’s first clash with the West. The treaty fundamentally altered the structure of Qing relations with foreign powers, and paved the way for the signing of a series of unequal treaties with other Western states.  

What are some character traits of the main characters in "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell?

In his famous story, "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell creates two fascinating characters in General Zaroff and Rainsford.  The main difference between these two characters is the fact that while General Zaroff is candid about himself and realizes what he is, Rainsford is deluded.  For, in the exposition of Connell's narrative, Rainsford is unconcerned about the feelings of any prey that he goes after.  Later, after he is captured, Rainsford is appalled at Zaroff's preference for his "new sensation," the hunting of men.  When Zaroff suggests that Rainsford is not unlike him since he had "experiences in the war," Rainsford, stiffly replies,

'Did not make me condone cold-blooded murder.'

The irony, of course, is that in the rising action and climax Rainsford come to understand what it means to be a beast at bay--"he knew now how an animal at bay feels"--and in the denouement of the story, he becomes the cold-blooded hunter of a man, Zaroff, whom he kills.  Without compunction, Rainsford decides afterwards that "he had never slept in a better bed."

Sartre says, "when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality,Sartre says,...

Existentialism does not occur in a vacuum.  Granted, it is not a church or a prescriptive ideology, but it is born by a community into a community.  Paul Tillich says it is the "natural ally of religion."  It is a revolt against traditional philosophy, but it still a public discourse.  Sartre's statement is his hope that existentialism will be carried into the world, not isolated from it.

Existentialism helps an individual determine himself from within instead of being determined by others or outside forces.  But, according to Sartre, this self-determintation and newfound freedom may go to far, at the cost of public responsibility.  To guard against this, Sartre balances his recipe: one part individualism and one part social responsibility.

The great existential fear is that an individual will either deny or overexert his freedom. Having allegiances severed from outside forces (school, family, and God), Sartre says man is "condemned to be free." But, this free will cannot be unadulterated, and it cannot occur in a vacuum.  An existentialist is bound to make responsible choices, which obviously involve others.

In Sartre's play The Flies, the existential hero Orestes must battle God, his family, his tutor, and the townspeople in deciding whether or not to kill his king and mother, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, the two who murdered his father, Agamemnon.

An easy decision would be to leave the situation alone: a son must not kill his mother; let God punish the murderers.  Or, since he was away when the murders took place and since the murder was not against him personally, Orestes might not have felt responsible to avenge his father's death.

Ultimately, Orestes decides to take revenge, not out of passionate hate or duty as an avenging son, but because of social responsibility: it will free the city from guilt and shame.  Ironically, the townspeople may hate him for liberating them, but that is the price Orestes must pay.  In this way, he is a kind of Christ-figure taking on the sins (Flies) of others.

How does Shakespeare generate suspense in the first act?

It is interesting to note that although Shakespeare tells his audience in the Prologue exactly what is going to happen - these two young lovers are going to die - he still manages to build suspense through the conflict we see in scene 1 between the servants of the Capulets and the Montagues.  He also generates suspense by showing the character of Romeo and how forlorn he is for the love of someone...Juliet?  We don't know, but we want to know what's going!

Scene 2 lets us know that more is going to happen, particularly with this guy, Paris, who wants to marry Juliet...wait a minute!  This is supposed to be Romeo and Juliet, not Paris and Juliet! Also we have a ball coming up...a party...something is bound to happen there!

Those are just examples from the first two scenes of Act I. Re-read this act and notice more examples from the other scenes that make you want to keep reading.  Also check the links below!  Good luck!

What does the scene with the three women from Seattle reveal about Holden?

On Chapter 10, Holden is at the Lavender Room, a lounge at the hotel. In there, three girls who are from Seattle are visiting NYC and he tries to impress them by ordering drinks, smoking, and acting cool. The girls, however, are not impresssed with him because they want to spot celebrities at the bar. In the end, they leave and he gets stuck with the tab.

He is repulsed by the girls, and contrasts them to Phoebe and Allie, who (in his book) are unreproachable. He goes on in a rant on how these girls are extremely superficial, how the adult world is full of phony people, who only care about what's in the outside. Yet...wasn't he also doing the same thing? Wasn't he also acting superficiallyn in order to fit in?

What this says about Holden is that he is great at whining and criticizing others, but he has a hard time applying his philosophy of life on himself. He has a great deal of double standards, and he is no different than the people he criticized. He has a view of life that is convenient for him because it allows him to make excuses for his lack of gumption and his inability to build social skills.  His views also help him hide his feelings and pretend that he is actually strong-willed and corageous. Which, he is anything but.

was frankenstien popular when it was first published? why/why not?

In addition to this, the book was the result of a contest posed by the Shelleys and Gordon Lord Byron.  When Mary's husband Percy first read it, he was so shocked and appalled that such a work came from such a young (18 years old) and impressionable young WOMAN that he burned it.  She rewrote it completely from memory, and the public both loathed it and loved it simultaneously.  Much like anything from Stephen King is both loathed for its gross contents and foul language but loved for its amazingly wonderful entertainment value.  Think too, that Darwin's Survival of the Fittest theory was fairly new, and so many advancements in science were coming to fruition.  The book was just another short leap from what the public saw as already "true" in their world at the time.  The first science fiction, if you will. 

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In Chapter 10 of Lord of the Flies, what is the significance of the title " The Shell and the Glasses"?

The conch has stood for power up to this point in the novel because whoever had it could speak.  During the night when Jack's tribe invades Ralph's group's camp, they don't steal the conch which is only symbolic of power.  They steal Piggy's glasses - the one tool they have with which to make fire and therefore, the real source of power.

Why does Ralph say that he is in charge on the island in Chapter 12 of Lord of the Flies?

Ralph is taking a stand, and taking responsibility. Jack and his group are not the only ones at fault, and Ralph finally acknowledges this fact.

Ralph clung to his ideas of organization and order, and at times risked life and limb to fight about them. Jack and Ralph were engaged in a power struggle-and both had a hand in the way things went wrong. Ralph would engage in violence to make a point, when Jack would goad him into it. All the boys were to blame for their descent into savagery.  Ralph had until this point, refused to see that he too, had a savage side.

Would you have liked to have had Meriwether Lewis as your friend why or why not?

Absolutely! Merriwether Lewis was one of the closest advisors to Thomas Jefferson, which is a president that has always caused intrigue in me. Not only was he his secretary and counsel, he was probably also his confidante, which makes him a very interesting choice for a friend.

Because of his great work, and his connection to Jefferson, MLewis became governor of Louisiana shortly after it was acquired. Louisiana has always been a beautiful, multicultural and exciting place ever since it first became part of the Union, and the newness of it all makes it all the more exciting.

Finally, I would have loved to know the exact reasons why he died, which have never been clear. Had I been his friend I would have been there to know for sure, and I would have caught whoever shot him, or I would have been there to persuade him from committing suicide if that is indeed what he did.

Nevertheless, being called "history's best pathfinder" would mean that being friends with him would have been the height of glamour and celebrity, not to mention that I will always find my way anywhere I go ;)

Why did slavery start in the United States? How long did it last for?

Up until 1676, indentured servants were the primary source for labor in the New World.  Slavery, as noted, had begun almost as soon as the English colony of Virginia began to be settled, but slaves were a poor source for labor -- they were very expensive and they usually died within 7 years of arriving. Indentured servants were much cheaper; they too usually died within 7 years of arrival, but their sponsor was out much less money, as it was cheaper to pay for an indentured servant's passage across the Atlantic than it was to purchase a slave for life.

Tobacco became the primary export; its cultivation was labor intensive.

Slavery began in earnest after Bacon's Rebellion, in 1676.  The indentured and newly freed servants and small poor white farmers stormed various plantations and destroyed what they could in protest against the abusive practices of the large scale farmers.  The rebellion was put down, but afterwards racism was legally enshrined in a series of acts that were designed to give the poor white farmers more of a stake in the agrarian economy by excluding black farmers (up until this time, there were free black farmers who owned slaves!) Conditions had improved so that life expectancy was greater; slaves, rather than troublesome indentured servants, became the mainstay labor force for nearly the next 200 years; racism upheld the social and political structures in the South and has finally rapidly diminished in our own time.

American Slavery, American Freedom, 1975 HW Brands.

In Chapter 3 of I Heard the Owl Call My Name, why are the men concerned about their young people?

T.P., the only native left "whose broad brow showed that as an infant", in accordance with tribal custom, "it had been tightly bound with cedar bands", says, "we are losing our sons...our young no longer understand the meaning of the totems".  The men are concerned because their young people have lost touch with their culture.

For centuries, the members of the Kwakiutl tribe, isolated in the rmote Pacific Northwest, lived in a pristine state.  They were a simple but rich society bounded by custom and community, and they took their livelihood from the land, existing in harmony with nature - hunting "for food, not for fun", and with each other.  With the gradual encroachment of modern white civilization, that began to change.  Now, only one child, in the tribe, Keetah, has "no English proper name", and there is poverty and depravity in the village, as exemplified by Sam, who lives in "the poorest house and want(s) only two things in life, liquor and sex" (Chapter 3).

I need a summary of chapters 8-10 of "The Devil's Arithmetic."

In the book The Devil's Arithmetic Hannah, a Jewish American teenager, finds herself in the past in a small Polish Village.  In chapter 8/9/10 they have traveled to the wedding and are listening as people are coming out of the woods and gathering towards the synagogue.

The Wedding party sees German trucks and soldiers standing outside the synagogue.  They are told they have to get into the trucks and are going to be deported somewhere.  The bridge ad groom can not marry.  They are rushed off with the others.  Hannah becomes aware of the situation and remembers what happened to the Jews due to the Nazi's persecution.  She tries to warn the others, but they ignore her and tell her to stop telling stories.

Schmel, the groom, sees a train station.  The Jewish people are taken off the trucks.  Guards are everywhere and they are treated like criminals.  Men, women, and children climb out in their garments they had worn for the wedding party. Fayge, he bride, tears her wedding dress on a nail.  They rush them pointing their guns at them.  They board them onto the trains.

The villagers see items that belonged to their family members and they worry.  They are told to obey and they will be safe.  Then they have to give up their belongings.  They are all forced to lie on the ground for a long time.

The German's tell them they are going to be resettled.  They put them into the box cars.  They are squeezed together and their bodies ache.  They are locked in and the train rolls.  The stench is awful and suffocating.  There are no bathrooms on board.  One child dies on the journey and Fayge tries to remain positive that she will be able to get married one day under the canopy. 

Why does the minister's wife send for Miss Emily's relations?A Rose for Emily

In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the minister's wife writes to Emily's relations because Emily is involved in what the townspeople think is a scandalous affair. 

Emily is seen in town being courted, they think, by an outsider and Northerner, Homer Baron.  Homer is not only an outsider, but, the town thinks, is beneath Emily.  He is just a "day laborer."  She is descended from aristocracy, of a sort, at least.  And the town and the minister's wife are trying to stop the affair. 

Paragraph 31 reveals this:

At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer."  But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige....

But Emily, apparently, does forget her place in society, and continues seeing Homer.  The townspeople then try to stop her.

What are the two functions of the secondary character Colonel Fitzwilliam in Pride and Prejudice?

Colonel Fitzwilliam's main function is to enlighten Elizabeth about Mr. Darcy's betrayal of her sister, Jane.  He was the one who told Elizabeth that Mr. Darcy had talked Mr. Bingley out of staying in town.  He explained that Mr. Darcy had swayed Mr. Bingley's oppinion of the Bennet family and Jane.  In essence, he was the catalyst for the confrontation between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth Bennet.

I believe Colonel Fitzwilliam also humanizes Mr. Darcy for the reader.  He helps illustrate the humanity in Mr. Darcy, his faults, and his strengths.  He helps develop Mr. Darcy's character. 

What does Jing-mei want for herself in the story "Two Kinds"?Jing-mei is constantly being asked things of her by her mother. What does Jing-mei...

Initally, approval from others (she really wanted to upstage Waverly).  She dreams of others heaping praise on her after her performance.

Another thing she wanted was freedom from her mother's expectations.  After she fails miserably at the talent show, Jing Mei makes it very clear that she does not want to continue with her piano lessons.  She knows that she could never be the piano player her mother wants her to be.  Her mother does realize this but it causes Jing Mei pain now she realizes that her mother will never be proud of her.

What is an example of irony in the story ''The Birthmark''?

In my opinion, the main irony in this story has to do with Aylmer and Aminadab.  The irony is that Aminadab knows way better than Aylmer what is going to happen.   This is ironic because Aylmer is supposed to be smarter than his assistant.

In the story, Aminadab is supposed to be pretty dumb.  The description of Aminadab makes it clear that he is not really all that smart and Aylmer definitely treats him that way.  Yet, from the beginning, Aminadab thinks that it is a bad idea to try to remove the birthmark.

As it turns out, Aylmer was wrong -- he was unable to remove the mark without killing Georgiana.  So the intellectual man did not understand what the dumb man did.  That is ironic.

What does Juliet's nurse look like physically? And what are her physical attributes?

Shakespeare doesn't paint a picture-perfect description of the Nurse, but one can assume that she is about the same age as Juliet's mother, since she nursed and raised Juliet after her own daughter, Susan, died.  So, based on that, and the fact that people simply aged faster in those days, we can say she's probably between 30 and 40 (but looks more like our modern age of 40-50).  Later in the play, when Juliet is begging her for more information as to what Romeo said, Nurse goes on about her aches and pains, having Juliet rub her back for her, but some of that could have been just teasing Juliet and making her wait for the information, since Juliet was being quite insistent about hearing the details.

Check the links below for more information.  Good luck!

What good poems are there that talk about the theme of searching or realizing one's identity?

A lot of poems are about identity, but some of my favorites are by Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.

Hughes' poem "Theme for English B," ostensibly written as a homework assignment for an English class, is a playful meditation on what the young black American man is and is not. Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Dickinson's "I'm nobody. Who are you?" are two very different poems about the speaker's self; Whitman's is expansive and eager to include everything within himself, whereas Dickinson's seems modest but playfully interested in smaller, meaningful friendships or communities.

Who are Edith Bussey, Ring, and Mary in Rifles for Watie?

Edith Bussey is the mother of the main character in Rifles for Watie, Jeff. She is from Kentucky, but has come to live in Kansas, where her husband Emory has bought a farm. Edith, who is used to the "gently rolling hills...seas of bluegrass...stone fences festooned with honeysucke, and...stately homes with...tall white columns towering into the drowsy air" of her home state, finds Kansas "hard to like." In comparison to Kentucky in the year 1861, Kansas is wild, unsettled, and "erratic," famous for "its cyclones, blizzards, grasshoppers, mortgages, and its violently opposed political cliques."

Ring is Jeff's dog, a big, gray creature with a plumed tail, "half shepherd and half greyhound." Ring has "big shoulder muscles and a white ring around his neck," and weighs almost ninety pounds. Jeff had brought Ring home as a puppy six years previously, and had talked his parents, who already had two other dogs, into letting him keep him. Now, Ring and Jeff are practically inseparable.

Mary is Jeff's younger sister. She and another sibling, Bess, are riding to the trading post one day when the two are accosted by bushwackers who steal their horses. Thinking quickly, the girls persuade the lawless men from taking their saddles as well. Although Mary and Bess return home safely, carrying their saddles, the only horses the family possesses are gone. Mary is twelve years old, and reacts bravely a second time when bushwackers actually come to the Bussey farm and threaten the family. While Bess sneaks away and goes for help, Mary snatches a pan of hot water from the fireplace and throws it at one of the intruders, helping to prevent them from doing more harm than they already have (Chapters 1-2).

Why does the speaker feel fear when the sails unfurl?

In the anonymous "The Seafarer," the speaker writes much about the terror and hazards of seafaring during his time.  When he writes that no man is so proud, etc., not to feel fear when "the sails unfurl" (42) he's simply telling about how treacherous sailing is during his day.  It's not that he's afraid of the sails, he's afraid of what unfurling the sails means!  I'm not a sailor, but I've always assumed this means the voyage is getting underway.  That's what scares him.

Sailing the sea is treacherous for the narrator:  it involves smashing surf (6) and sweating in the cold (6); feet cast in icy bands (9,10), hunger that tears at his sea-weary soul (12), a world blown clear of love and hung with icicles (16,17), and freezing waves (19).

He is afraid of seafaring, and when the sails unfurl it is time to shove off. 

Who are the main characters in Frankenstein, and are they static or dynamic?

Mr. DeLacey is the only person in the book who shows kindness to the creature. Since he is blind, DeLacey doesn't see the ugliness of the creature, and he's the father that Frankenstein should have been to his creature.

Victor Frankenstein is the selfish man who creates the monster. He's horrified by the creature's physical appearance and runs away from it, never giving the monster a chance to learn how to get along in the world.

The creature is Victor's creation who enters the world and then is left alone to fend for itself after Victor runs from it. He changes into a creature of revenge when Victor rejects his own creation and the rest of the world is afraid to be near it.

Robert Walton is interested in exploring the unknown like Victor, but he also shows compassion and pity to the creature. He reevaluates his own mission after hearing the story of the creature.

The only two of these characters who change (dynamic) are the creature and Walton. The rest of the characters are the same (static) and don't change during the book. I don't think Victor is a dynamic character because he remains selfish throughout the book. In the end, Victor doesn't care that Walton's crew might be put in danger by going after the creature, just as he didn't care about his creation.

What role did the federal government play in gearing up the economy for wartime production?

U.S. government's role during World War II in mobilizing the economy for war: The following paragraph is lifted off of page 468 of American Military History from Center of Military History, United States Army, about 1988.

"An imposing structure of federal agencies and committees grew up in Washington to control the nation's economic mobilization.  Its keystone was the influential War Production Board (WPB) that controlled the allocation and the use of raw materials, machine tools, and facilities, with powers similar to those of the War Industries Board in World War I.  In the military spnere the War Department, like the Navy Department, had a large degree of autonomy in controlling requirements planning, production, and distribution of material for its forces.  The actual procurement--that is, purchasing and contracting of munitions and other war materials--was carried out directly by the Army's technical services and the Navy's bureaus.  Within the Joint Chiefs of Staff organization many logistical problems at issue between the services were settled by negotiation.  The War Shipping Administration (WSA) operated and allocated the critical United States merchant shipping.  Close co-operation between WSA and the British Ministry of War Transport resulted in the pooling of the two merchant fleets, comprising the bulk of the world's mercantile tonnage.  Other civilian agencies dealt with such critical commodities as food, petroleum products, and rubber.  In the spring of 1943 most of the mobilization agencies were subordinated to a new co-ordinating unit, the Office of War Mobilitation headed by former Justice James F. Byrnes."

What is extrusion molding process?

Extrusion process is a volume pressing process, similar to calibration,by which the shape and size of material processed(including thickness) are changed, by partially or totally redistributing of its volume.

This process presents several advantages, such as: the possibility of manufacturing complex shapes of brittle materials and the possibility to obtain superior finished surfaces on manufactured materials.

Also the extrusion process could be done in several ways, depending on the characteristics of material processed, the volume of production, etc:

-hot extrussion;

-warm extrussion;

- cold extrussion.

There are also 4 decisive characteristics which are helpful in choosing the proper equipments used in extrusion:

-press position (vertical or horizontal);

-extrusion movement (direct or indirect);

- the load applied;

-the mechanical or hydraulic drive.

How does Ralph react to the first hunt in which he takes part? What game do the boys play after the hunt in Lord of the Flies?

In chapter 7, Ralph partakes of his first hunt.  The boys encounter a boar and Ralph hits it with his spear but does not kill or even stop the pig.  Ralph is exhilarated that he hit the pig and repeatedly tells the boys that he hit it.  He feels the thrill of the hunt and he wants the others to know that he has contributed, or at least tried to contribute, to the well-being of the boys.  He has felt frustration because the boys haven't built good huts and hut-building was his command.  The hunters have been successful and have provided meat already, so Ralph wants to feel like he is bringing something to the boys as well.  Jack manages to get hurt by the boar which makes him the focus of the boys' attention thus taking attention away from Ralph in his self-perceived moment of glory.  The game that the boys play is to mimic hunting and finding a pig, using one of the littluns as the pig.  They become so stirred-up by their play that they become vicious in their attacks against the boy pretending to be the pig and nearly inflict serious and life-threatening harm to him.  This is foreshadowing for what happens later with Simon and it shows the inner savagery of the boys and how far they have fallen from civilization.

How did Russians feel at the beginning of WWI ?

The truth is that how the Russian people felt about anything was completely irrelevant, the Tsar was an absolute autocrat.  Although the Duma was more or less a parliament of sorts, they had no actual power over any decision the ruler made. Many Russians supported the war as an act of solidarity with fellow Slavs in the Balkans, but these would have been military officers and politicians.  The people of Russia as a whole had little or no idea of what was going on in the world outside of their locality, the great mass of Russians being uneducated people living in rural areas, for all practical purposes cut off from the rest of the world.  Those in the cities were more informed, but largely opposed to the war.  People were often supportive of war against Austria-Hungary, but they feared war with Germany (with good reason).

The military command structure supported the war, for personal and professional reasons, although Grand Duke Nicholas (the tsar's brother, who was made commander-in-chief of the army) thought it would be a disaster for the country and likely lead to revolution.  It was said that he cried upon being informed of his appointment.

The Russian war plan was foolish in the extreme.  To relieve pressure on the French the Russians intended to invade East Prussia before their own mobilization was complete, thereby hoping to throw the German war machine out of balance.  Operations against Austria went well, since the Russians had (through their effective use of spies) the complete Austrian war plans years in advance.  Against Germany, the Russians foundered.  They sent two Armies into Prussia, one south and one north of the Masurian Lakes.  These two (the First and Second Armies) were to coordinate somehow, with no possible means of communication, and with both commanders hating one another.  Under a retired Prussian general recalled to duty (Paul von Benekendorff und Hindeburg) and a logistical wizard named Hoffman the Germans moved their forces by lateral railways and crushed one Russian army at Gumbinnen and the other at Tannenberg in a matter of days.  From this point on the Russians were fighting a losing war against Germany, which eventually cost the Tsar his throne in spring, 1917, and then the Kerensky government to fall to the Bolsheviks later in the year.

What is the summary and analysis of the poem "Slough" by John Betjeman?

The poem "Slough" by John Betjeman is a tale of disdain for a town in England called Slough (pronounced sl-ow, as in cow), on A4 above Colinbrook with Poyle. Betjemin devotes ten stanzas of quatrain to how do I hate thee, Slough, let me count the ways.

The quatrains are constructed with an unconventional AAAB rhyme scheme (Lines 2 and 4 don't rhyme) instead of the conventional rhyme between Lines 2 and 4 and (optionally) Lines 1 and 3. The poem is in iambic (unstressed, stressed) tetrameter (four feet of iambs) except for the unrhymed last lines in iambic dimeter (two feet of iambs).

Betjemin desires the village of Slough to be blasted by bombs that will take every grocery and breath from the place and "mess" up the mess of a town where you can buy cheap houses.

He also adjures the bomb to get the guy, whose very skin is repulsive, who bathes "In women's tears," admonishing the bomb to wipe out his desk and dirty jokes with pain. He pleads, though, that the bomb spare the "bald clerks" who toiled for this jerk with "double chin" and added money to his till, saying that "It's not their fault they do not know / The birdsong from the radio." It's also not their fault, he continues, that they "daren't look up and see the stars."

He pities these clerks who, in their ignorance, have wives in "labor-saving homes" who "frizz out peroxide hair / And dry it in synthetic air / And paint their nails." He ends by imploring the bomb to ready Slough for the "plough" so that "double chin" despoilers and "labor-saving" houses can be replaced by cabbages. Evidently, the bombs have heard Betjemin's plea (at least in his poetic imagination) because the last lines say the Earth breathes and "The cabbages are coming now."

How does the novel show that insecurities about identity cause adolescents to harm friends?

There are two more characters that demonstrate this idea in the novel: "Leper" Lepellier and Brinker Hadley. Leper is a quiet teenager who keeps mostly to himself. However, when he sees the recruitment video of soldiers on cross-country skies, he immediately enlists. Once in the Army, he loses all sense of self. His psyche cannot handle the sudden onslaught of discipline and rigor, monotony and hostility. He suffers a nervous breakdown and leaves the Army without permission. When Gene goes to visit him, he finds a very different friend. Leper tells him of life in the military, of his hallucinations and daydreams: results of his overwhelmed mind. Gene does not comprehend this change; it frightens him too greatly. He realizes how fragile his own identity is, which causes him to shriek at Leper, telling him he's crazy and simply leaving him crying in his sitting room, hurt by someone he considered a friend.

Brinker too lashes out at friends due to insecurity. The mock trial scene shows this. His own unhappiness at being unable to please his father, coupled with his sudden obsession over Finny's denial about enlisting causes him to latch onto Gene. He cannot let go of the idea that Gene pushed Finny out of the tree. It suddenly becomes his mission to prove Gene's guilt. He stages a mock trial, bringing in witnesses and eliciting testimony. It is this trial which sends Finny running down the steps, where he slips & breaks his leg again. Thus, Brinker's insecurity causes harm to both Gene and Finny.

Discuss the cardinal utility theory. What are its drawbacks?

The cardinal utility theory treats utility as something that can be measured in absolute terms.  We can measure a person and say the person is 1.7 meters tall.  So too, these theorists say, we can measure the utility a person gets from a good or service and say they get 1.7 utils, for example, from it.

This is in contrast to ordinal utility theory which simply says that a person gets more utility from good A than good B.

Cardinal utility is helpful for teaching about marginal utility and things like that.  However, it seems to me that it is quite impossible to measure utility in a cardinal way.  I can only talk about how much satsifaction I get from buying a book by comparing it to what I get from watching a movie.  I cannot put a number on the book without reference to other things.

From the novel Of Mice and Men, discuss the main characters George and Lennie.How are they characterized? What are the main conflicts they face?...

George is a smart small framed man. He is a careful and does not easily trust people. He is also loyal to his word. He promised that he would look after Lenny which he does. George sometimes gets frustrated with Lenny. He has been working as a ranch hand for many years. George lives during the depression in America. He is an ethical person who has to make the decision as to whether or not to take the life of his own friend or allows others to kill him.

Lenny is a simple minded and large sized  man. He is a nice man but he does not understand his own strength. He demonstrates this by breaking Curley's hand and by accidentally killing the puppies. Later he accidentally kills Curley's wife. He trusts George and follows him wherever the road takes them. He looks forward to owning a ranch with George. He wants to raise rabbits. Lenny does not understand the social restrictions of his time. He befriends the black man on the ranch and Candy, an old used up ranch hand. He is impulsive and makes poor choices.

Conflict begins before they arrive at the ranch. At their previous place of employment Lenny had grabbed a girl and they had to run. Because of this George sets up a safe location where they will meet if something bad happens. Curley, the ranch owner’s son and bully, takes a dislike to Lenny and tries to provoke him. Lenny breaks his hand making an even greater enemy of him. Candy the ranch hand has an old dog. Curley’s friend kills the dog to put it out of its misery. The final crisis is when Lenny panics and kills Curley’s wife. Lenny runs and hides. George has to go after him. He finds him before the others can get to him. George kills Lenny by shooting him. He did it because he cared about Lenny.

In "The Necklace," which type of characterization is predominantly used, direct or indirect? Explain how you know.

In my opinion, the predominant form of characterization in this story is direct.  Direct characterization is when the author of the story directly tells us what a character is like, rather than having us figure it out for ourselves from the character's actions.

Look at the way that the author tells us about Madame Loisel.  He tells us straight out that she is unhappy and why she is unhappy.

She suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs. All these things, which another woman of her caste would not even have noticed, tortured her and made her indignant.

Later on, he tells us how she feels about the invitation to the ball.

Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she threw the invitation on the table with annoyance,

So what he does in this story is to tell us what she is thinking.  He does not just show her throwing the invitation.  Instead, he tells us why she did it.

How it come to fluorescent monkeys ?

A recent article in "Nature" reports the introduction in the genome of a small species of monkey, a gene which, when it is expressed - that the information coded in nucleic acids is translated into corresponding protein, which takes part in complex molecular choreography within the cell -- cause fluorescence!Previously, similar experiments were made in other animals such as mice or pigs. But now we are dealing with a body much closer to ours.

Fluorescent monkeys  kept the first page in many daily papers as the "science"story of the week. Mainly because it's not a genetic modification of an isolated individual but a modification which is  passing to descendants.  And that is, in addition, very visible. Why genetically modified animals?

The great stake is not creating a monkey visible in the dark , but that we have an easy to be observed marker. What follows now is the introduction of this marker with some forms of genes responsible for a certain disease, particularly are mentioned sclerosis and Parkinson's, with the advantage that it can then be followed, directly, the resulting phenotype.

An another recent experiment  reports mice endowed with "speech gene",which is the FOXP2 gene.

Who are the characters in the poem The Raven?

The characters in "The Raven" are only the speaker and the bird. The speaker is alone, and it can be assumed that he wants to keep himself in isolation. The speaker is kept in the grip of grief from the loss of his love, Lenore. He seems to want to be kept company with only his memories and his grief over Lenore.

While Lenore is not physically present in the story, she is definitely a presence.

The speaker discusses the many wonderful qualities, as well as his inadequacies, basically to himself, but the raven does respond to his laments.

Write short notes on "language and parole" and "conversion as a morphological device".

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I'll give it a shot.

Morphology, with respect to grammar, is the study of changes in words and language. Morphology is often called the structure of words-as units in the structure of language.

Conversion is a morphological device which involves no morphological change. In other words, conversion (in grammar) changes the function or syntax of a word without changing the word itself. Here's one example, with the stressed syllable in itallics. (from Verb to Noun).

convert and convert. The pronunciation changes, but the grapheme (word) does not.

If by "language and parole," you mean "la langue and parole," from Saussure, then I can give you the basic idea.

La langue is the abstract system of signs and language of a given speech community. Parole is the putting into practice of that language. Langue is language and parole is speaking.

At any one time, when a speaker uses conversion, he/she is using parole but he/she is referring to the most recent rules and structures of his/her language (langue). Since the speaker (parole) and the social/psychological language (langue) he refers to are an interacting duo, changes to languages often result from interaction between the two, or from interaction between two different social groups.

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The visual and chess metaphors: This most recent look at the rules and setup of a language system is called the synchronic (the snapshot or setup of the players on the chess board). The look at the whole history of the rules would be called the diachronic (the history of movement, not just the snapshot, or the history of the game of chess.)

Why is Tom Robinson's sentence important?

Tom Robinson's sentence is never actually revealed in the book. A sentence is the term in prison or the announcement of the punishment. We do know he was taken to a prison because we hear second hand about how he was shot at.

I assume you are asking about the verdict (the decision the jury came to) which was guilty. The other editors have addressed that. If you do indeed mean the term sentence, I think what's important about it is that he never got to serve it. Before there was even a chance for appeal, before the sentence was revealed, Tom was killed. I guess you could say that his sentence ended up being the death penalty unjustly applied. This is important because it demonstrates the deep seeded racism at work in the South in the 30s.

What are proposing Bohr and Rutherford atomic models ?

Being known that in atoms are electric charges, scientists  were trying to formulate a model of the atom, considering that the atom must be electrically neutral.

The first atomic model was developed by W. Tleonsen and was developed by JJ Tleomson. The model assumes that the atom is composed from a sphere with the radius equal to the atom radius and the electrons distributed in the same area have the opportunity to be placed so that the atom to be electrically neutral.

Through experiences of appearance of charged particles on thin metal foil, Rutherford aimed to check the different atomic models proposed. These experiences have shown that positive charge is not equally distributed in atoms, but is concentrated in a volume of radius smaller than  10^-10 m in the nucleus.

Rutherford's experiments confirmed the planetary atom model in which positive charge of the atom is concentrated in a core with radius of about 10^-14m and electrons are revolving around it in orbits with radii of about 10^-14m.

To explain the structure of the atom, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, developed in 1913, a theory known as "atomic Bohr'sTheory" . He assumed that electrons are arranged in layers or quantum levels, at a considerable distance towards the nucleus. This mode of arrangement is also called electronic configuration. The number of these electrons is equal to the atomic number.

Conventional, to the atom is assigned a planet system image, in which electrons are rotating around the nucleus as planets around the Sun. Since it can not be defined the snapshot position of an electron on orbit, in order to solve this uncertainty is assigned to the electron an electronically cloud form.

What are some adjectives that describe Jonas' physical attributes in The Giver?

Jonas starts out as a typical eleven-year-old, care free and intelligent; after his twelfth birthday, he changes.  His most notable physical characteristic is his unusual eyes,  they are pale, while everyone else’s are brown, and he has the ability to see things change in a way that he cannot explain.  He is uncomfortable with attention he receives when he  singled out as the new Receiver; he prefers to blend in with his friends.  As the novel progresses he increases in sensitivity and his kindness to and interest in people.   He is a naturally curious boy, and within a year of training, he becomes extremely sensitive to beauty, pleasure, and suffering,  and deeply loving toward his family and the Giver.  He is fiercely passionate about his new beliefs and feelings. Things about the community that used to be mildly perplexing or troubling to him are now powerfully frustrating or depressing, and Jonas’s inherent concern for others and desire for justice makes him yearn to make changes in the community, both to awaken other people to the richness of life and to stop the casual cruelty that is practiced in the community.

Early skeptics of the idea of a rotating earth said that the fast spin of Earth would throw people at the equator into space. The radius of Earth...

a) When the earth rotates an object(man) on the equator undergoes distance equal to the  circuference of earth at equator in 24 hours. So, its velocity = distance undergone /seconds in 24 hrs = 2pi*64000*1000 metrs/(24*60*60) =465.4,211339meters/second  is speed of any object on the earth due to the earth's rotation.

b)

The person along the earth moves with a constant speed along the earth's circumference. In other words his constant relative speed along the earth wrt the earth is zero. So to accelerate the 95 kg man by 1meter/s^2 you require 95kg*1m/s^2 newtons =95N

c)The weight of the person is due to the inherent gravitational attraction between the person and the earth. So gravitational force on the person =GMm/R^2 where G is the gravitational constant and its value  = 6.67258*10^-11Nm^2/kg^2, M is the mass of the earth = 5.978*10^24 kg and m is the mass of the person =95 kg , given. So the weight due to gravitation = 6.67258*10^-11)(5.978*10^24)(95)/(6400000)^2 = 925.1526 N

d)The apparent weight of the person, here in this question due to earths rotation about its axis alone, is reduced by mv^2/R = 95*(465.4211339)^2/(6400*1000) = 95*(0.033846379) =3.2154N which is due to the rotation of the earth. So the apparent weight of the person = weight due to gravitation - force on the person due to the earth's rotation = (925.1526-3.2154)N = 921.9372 N.

How is Lennie's treatment of his dead puppy typical of his character in Of Mice and Men?

What everyone has answered is on the mark, but I would like to add that Lennie knows in some sense that what he did was wrong.  He's not keeping it because he's sensitive - he's keeping the dead puppy hidden, because - like a child - he is avoiding the consequence of getting in trouble.  He knows that he will be punished and his punishment is possibly, "no more soft things to pet, " especially having those rabbits on their dream farm.

Does Lennie understand what he has done?  Well, as a child, he does to some extent.  He did a "bad thing."  However, he truly does not comprehend that he has taken a life away from a living entity.  Since he has killed mice in the past, his punishment was a chastising and the dead mouse taken away.  He is eventually given a new one.

When he kills the puppy, unconsciously, he believes he will get yelled at again and maybe, given a new one in the future.

It is typical of his character.  He does not know his own strength nor the severity of his actions.  It is unfortunate, because it leads to the death of Curly's wife.

What are the epithets in books 1-4 in the Odyssey?

Epithets are descriptive terms or glorified nicknames that are repeated often with someone's name. The difference between an adjective and an epithet is that epithets are only decorative. Adjectives do a lot for the context of the scene and the character, but epithets are linked to the noun by long-established usage, rather than immediate context. 

One of the most common Homeric epithets is "rosy-fingered dawn" as a repetitive description of the time of day. Another common one is the "wine-dark sea." Most epithets have to do with specific characters, to emphasize their most prominent features as people. In the Odyssey, many common ones that show up include:

For Penelope: circumspect, wise, clever, cautious

For Athena: bright eyed, grey eyed, promachos (of war/fighting phalanxes), virgin, Pallas, hope of soldiers, whose shield is thunder, daughter of Zeus

For Odysseus: wise, clever, hotheaded, loved of Zeus/Athena, resourceful, much-enduring, much-pained, cunning, the great tactician

For Menelaus: red-haired/flame-haired, son of Atreus, war-like

For Nestor: sweet-spoken, charioteer

For Poseidon: earth-shaker

For Telemachus: poised, thoughtful

For Agamemnon: son of Atreus, wide-ruling, powerful

For Calypso: softly-braided, divinely-made, cunning, daughter of Atlas

We need three examples of metaphors with the page numbers, Does anyone know any off hand? Thanks

I have two

Gretel and Brunos view from their rooms. Gretel can see flowers and a garden while Bruno can see the camp and all the prisoners. This is a metaphor for how they see the world. On page 28-31 i think.

The second one is the fence, where Bruno and Shmuel meet. That is thougout the hole book, and dousen't have any specific pages. The fence is a mataphor for two different worlds. Bruno's side, which is the "nazi" side, and Shumel's side which is the Jew side with death camps and so on. 

Hope this helped! Yolo

A detailed summary of the film Amistad.I would like to break down what transpired in the movie and how the characters were portrayed

In the movie "Amsted" which I have not seen in some time, we are introduced to the slaves who have been captured and placed aboard a slave ship.  Men, women, and children are on the vessel.  They are shackled together and housed in rows on rough made shelves where they are told to turn.  Some of the slaves die lying in cramped stinking conditions next to one another.

The journey to the states is horrible.  Many slaves become sick and hungry.  Cinque is the main slave character in the movie.  Slaves are tossed about in the storms and are even tossed over the side of the ship.  Some women and men also get tossed because they are attached to the shackles.  None can swim and they are far out in the ocean so they drown.

Cinque engages the others in an uprising and is brought to trial in America.  He gains some anti-slavery defenders support and goes to trial.  He wins his case and is later taken back to his home country.  Once there he learns that there is no more village or family for him to return home to.

I have attached a site that lists the characters for you.

In A Separate Peace which scenes in the novel hilight Gene's lack of virtue? Does Finny demonstrate a lack of virtue?

Gene does demonstrate some rather unpleasant traits throughout the course of the novel; he shows envy, pettiness, hatred, dishonesty, cowardice and betrayal.  And throughout it all, he shows a definite awareness of his poor qualities, and struggles with his own distaste for himself.

In the beginning of the novel, he feels bitterness and sheer envy for Finny.  After Finny, on the beach, reveals that Gene is his best friend, Gene doesn't return the compliment.  He keeps his mouth shut, and later pettily concludes that Finny is trying to undermine his studies.  This episode reveals how insecure and self-centered Gene is.  When Gene goes to Lepers house, and is confronted by Leper's startling change in personality, Gene ends up yelling at him, calling him names, and fleeing the scene instead of being the kind, supportive friend that Leper needed in his time of struggle and confusion.  In chapter seven, when Brinker half-jokingly confronts Gene about what happened at the tree, Gene outright lies, and to divert the attention away from himself, picks on another, lesser-liked kid in the room.  He belittles and makes fun of the other kid, all to save himself from the discomfort of being confronted about Finny.

Finny does not have quite as impressive resume of negative traits as Gene, but he does have a couple moments.  He lies about enlisting in the war and wanting to be involved, and he is a bit self-centered, designing activities and games that give him the advantage in all things.  His own denial of the accident contributes to awkwardness in his friendship with Gene, and inadvertantly, to his anger at the end that led to his fall.  He didn't want to face the facts, and accept any form of betrayal into his life.

All of these instances, and more, show Gene in a not-too flattering light, and give him depth and make him seem like a real person.  Finny himself has his moments.  We watch throughout the entire novel as Gene and Finny struggles against their own vices and insecurities.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good luck!

What trouble or conflict is the main character dealing with in Buried Onions?

Eddie, the main character, is struggling to survive in the barrio of Fresno, California, where he's constantly encouraged by friends and family to do things he doesn't want to do or shouldn't do, such as guns and drugs. He doesn't want to end up like his father, his cousin, and his best friend who all died. Throughout the book, it becomes more difficult for Eddie to try and live his own life, and he finally realizes he has to leave the barrio in order to do this. This is the main conflict that Eddie must face in the book.

How has the war changed Harold Krebs' attitudes toward work and women in the story "Soldier's Home"?

The war has primarily changed Krebs’ understanding of manhood as it had been before the war, which the narrator explains in the 4th paragraph of the story: “All of the time that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself  . . .now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves.” Fundamental to his problem, resulting from the war, is that he cannot communicate—to girls, to his parents, to anyone.  The war had been such a horrific experience for him that he returns without feeling, or maybe with so much feeling that words are inadequate to express any ideas that he has.  With words inadequate, and “normal” experience meaningless after all he had experienced during the war, he withdraws, succumbing to his mother’s desire for him to pray but realizing that, like everything else, is worthless.  Note the style of Hemingway’s writing here, which reflects the attitude of Kreb:  short sentences, little descriptors, plain language.  Hemingway often uses this minimalist style.  It developed out of his own experiences in the war, which caused him to distrust language, thinking the best way to say anything was to “undersay” it because words cannot always be trusted.  He associated this style with masculinity:  a man, according to Hemingway, should act rather than talk about acting, and if he cannot act, he should keep quiet about his feelings

What is the purpose of the religious allegory in Lord of the Flies?

I think that the author is trying to use the religious allegory to back up the major point of the book as a whole.  In my opinion, the major point of the book is that human nature is pretty much evil.  If left in a state where there is no civilization, human beings will revert to evil.

To me, the major religious allegory is the story of Simon.  Simon can be read as an analogy for Jesus Christ.  He tries to act in a moral way in a world of sin.  But, because of what human nature is, he gets killed.

What are the three mottos of the French Revolution in Book the Third, Chapter One in A Tale of Two Cities?

The three mottos or pillars if you like of the French Revolution are revealed in the chapter you mention: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. It is important to realise how central these three foundations are to the creation of France today as we know it. Each of the three is represented by a different colour which makes up the tricolor, or the French Flag, clearly placing them at the centre of the nation's values and beliefs.

Also note how they arose out of the experience of years of serfdom of the French peasantry. The French Revolution, although perhaps more famed for its bloody executions at the hand of "Madame La Guillotine", is also famous for the liberty that it gave to the people of France who were know freed from the shackles of the nobility, the new-found equality they were given in this new nation and the fraternity with which it was to be built upon.

Why the food is good for the healthwhat kinds of food we should eat

There is some amount of debate on this subject, but most scientists agree that people should eat only limited amounts of meat and fat and sugar.  Instead, people should eat more of vegetables, fruits, and legumes.

By eating a diet with less fat and sugar, people can reduce their risk of various health problems.  The most important of these are heart disease and diabetes.  High blood pressure is also connected to bad eating habits and to obesity.

By eating more of the healthy foods, people can also reduce their weight.  Being overweight is a very big problem, especially in the United States.

"She is the apple of my eye" is an example of (a) metaphor (b) simile (c) personification (d) alliteration?

In language, being direct eliminates confusion and ensures that miscommunication is minimized. However, when subtlety or emphasis is needed or creativity is required or perhaps a reader or receiver of information needs to get a visual picture of something, figurative language comes into its own. Figurative language can provide clarity and a more defined understanding of something or it can create confusion and a need for interpretation. It is persuasive in nature and tries to convince the reader towards a preferred understanding of what is being described. Over time, figurative language has adopted its own set of rules as writers use it to enhance their own work. Translation of texts from other languages has resulted in interpretation of the types of figurative language used in, for example, the Bible, and general definitions now fit the intentions of writers regardless of when a text may have been written. This has given figures of speech their universal appeal and they exist in everyday language on a far greater scale than the average person realizes.

In defining the well-known idiom "the apple of my eye" as either metaphor, simile, personification or alliteration, it is necessary to understand each of these terms. A metaphor makes an implied comparison of two unlike things as if they can be directly compared when there is no literal connection. The comparison is definite unlike a simile which also makes a comparison but it uses a key word in making the comparison by using the word like or as. Personification attributes human characteristics to something that is not human and alliteration is a sound device which creates emphasis through using the same letter to begin at least two words in a line or sentence and, this way, it draws attention to the words being used.

Therefore, from the four choices only metaphor meets the criteria.  

In "An Enemy of The People," DR, Stockmann thinks he has the "compact majority" behind him. Why do you think he is mistaken? ACT 5

According to me there is nothing like the compact majority. There are just a group of individuals with individual opinions that manage to conform to many people's opinions.

At the begining of Act 4 there is a discussion between citizens that reveals that they blindly follow their leader's opinions. From act five the mayor, the land lord, glaizer, Mrs busk, Mr Vic, Aslasken and Morten kill refuse to help Dr Stockman and up set his plans all due to public opinion. All of them however are public leaders in their own right. Therefore Dr Stockman initially had the compact majority behind him but he made the mistake of insulting the crowd which made the town leaders change their stand to conform to public opinion. So he was not mistaken but was arogant to the change of public opinion and the compact majority by extension.

Did the US/Canadian border matter, and make a difference to the native peoples living along side it?Which Native American tribes did the border...

I'm assuming you are referring to the late 1800's as the conquest of Native tribes in the western and northwestern United States was nearing completion.

The Canadian border, or "Big Medicine Line" as many tribes referred to it, had perhaps the largest affect on the Sioux and Nez Perce living in Montana and Idaho.  These tribes were organized into bands that covered vast tracts of territory, and some of the bands lived on the American side and others on the Canadian side. 

For one, the border became a sort of refuge, where natives from the US could escape out of American jurisdiction, although this did not always work.  Once the conquest became complete by the 1890's, tribes were more permanently divided, and their cultures drifted apart and faded.

Though they still have a checkered past in terms of native policy, Canada did not have the westward population pressure the US did, and so their treatment of what they call the "First Nations" is generally more positive.  Much of the traditionally tribal lands remained in native hands, and native languages and cultures remained relatively more intact than their American counterparts.

What are the plot, characters, theme, and major symbol of the story?

It will be impossible to give you very many details on each of these literary elements in this space, so I suggest you reread the short story and go to the websites below for more details.

The plot revolves around the black veil that Parson Hooper begins wearing and never removes. The veil seems to reflect Hooper's whole being, hiding a secret that he will share with no one. People begin staying away from him, and his actions become more and more depressing and strange. His fiancee, Elizabeth, begs him to take the veil off, but he refuses, and she breaks off their engagement. Hooper gets sick and dies and is buried with the veil still on his face. Before dying, he says that all people wear a veil of some kind that hides a secret. One other character important to the story is the Rev. Clark from a nearby town.

There are several themes in the story. One is isolation and loneliness because once Hooper puts on the veil, no one will go near him. Another theme deals with the veil that all people wear to hide their faults or sins. In fact, the veil itself represents the hidden secrets of people that they don't want anyone to find out about. Ironically, Hooper reveals his sin of pride by wearing the veil rather than the veil hiding his sin of pride.

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I was wondering if this would be an appropriate thesis statement regarding the use of mood in To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm a bit stuck.Here: In the...

I think you are going to have to make this thesis statement more specific.  Right now, you are saying that imagery creates mood, but that is a very general statement. Since your paper is meant to support or prove your thesis statement, the reader needs to know what kind of mood the imagery creates, so the reader can assess the success of your support for it.

I do not know if whether or not you have already chosen your imagery examples, but if you have, you need to evaluate the mood that they are creating.  Sometimes we need to work "backwards" when we are creating a thesis statement because we are still exploring what point it is we want to make.  If you have three examples, ask how you can characterize the mood they evoke.  That will form the basis of your thesis.

We will be happy to look at your next version.  Good luck!

What is your answer to this question? "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?"

This is a personal opinion type of question. It is never conclusively stated in the story whether it was a dream or a reality. The outcome is tragic, Young Goodman Brown lives the rest of his life a bitter, angry man who turns his back on his religion, his wife, and his community. Even to his dying day he is never able to forgive.

My students seem to come to the conclusion that it was to vivid to just be a dream. They look at the details and decide that the devil would further torture Brown in never letting him no the truth of the matter.

What is the theme of the story, "Raymond's Run"?

Several important themes run through Toni Cade Bambara’s gripping Raymond’s Run. The most important theme is the significance of familial relationship in life. Here it's about the selfless and intimate bonding between a brother and a sister. 

The story presents a moving tale of deep love and understanding between two siblings, Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker and her brother Raymond Parker. While Hazel is unusually passionate about running, Raymond is a mildly abnormal as “he’s not quite right.”

We see how the little girl is so deeply attached to his brother who is slightly mentally retarded. She never leaves him alone lest anybody may cause him trouble.

She plays the role of mother, bodyguard, friend and sister towards him. Towards the end she is all set to assume another role for herself - that of a coach to Raymond.

She knows how great it feels to top a race. She’s never tasted defeat in racing.

“And I’ve got a roomful of ribbons and medals and awards. But what has Raymond got to call his own?”

In these lines we share a sister’s discomfort seeing his brother devoid of any such achievement. She feels sorry for her brother who has almost go no identity as an individual; no accomplishment in his name. She wants to make him feel special about himself.

Today when she is jumping up and down, everybody thinks she’s glad to win the race once again. But actually they are wrong; she is jumping because she’s discovered in Raymond the potential to be “a great runner in the family tradition.” 

Moreover, though Raymond is unable to articulate his feelings for his sister, we know he loves her very much. To celebrate her victory, he climbs up the fences easily and quickly and then jumps off and comes running to congratulate her.

What we witness here is the indescribable bond of selfless love between two siblings that finds joy only in the happiness of one another. This, perhaps, is the most important and predominant theme in the story.

Second, the story is about the gradual development of the central character Hazel. Since the start of the story, we admire her for whatever she is. She is a very loving and caring sister. She is determined, fearless and bold, clear-headed and devoted and perseverant school going girl.

The development that we notice in her is that at first she remains rather aloof from others except Raymond. She doesn’t seem to be in good terms with her friends. Besides, to her Raymond has always been a sort of responsibility to look after; of course she loves him a lot.

Towards the end, she has developed further with more admirable qualities. She has grown fuller and more matured. Instead of just thinking about winning races herself, she wants to coach his brother, Raymond, as a successful runner. Moments ago she has discovered that Raymond is not merely an abnormal boy but one with enough potential to be groomed to be a great runner.

Besides, her rivalry with Gretchen seems to have transformed into a relationship of friendship and respect. She seems to have become more accommodative and more matured.

Another important theme is that true sportsmanship teaches one to respect one another. It is bereft of feelings of ill-will or malice. Nobody can doubt Hazel’s dedication for running. She’s either running or doing something to help her run better and faster.

In Gretchen, Hazel finds her true competitor but she is never jealous of her. At the end when her name is announced as the winner, Hazel and Gretchen exchange smiles out of respect for one another. Gretchen too has got true sportsman spirit.

What are reasons why Mother Teresa was famous?

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a Catholic nun of Albanian Origin who migrated to India in 1929 at the age of 19 and lived there for rest of her life, adopting Indian citizenship.

Mother Teresa was perhaps the greatest humanitarian of her time. In 1948 Mother Teresa was given permission to leave the convent and work to serve the poor and needy in Calcutta. In 1950 she started her own mission called Missionaries of Charity. The work of this organization has spread all over the World. Through this organization Mother Teresa has provided food, medical aid, shelter and education to the poorest of the poor and neediest of the needy, not only in Calcutta or India, but nearly in 100 countries all over the world.

In recognition of her work and her achievements, Mother Teresa was awarded many prizes and honours including Nobel Prize for peace. Currently the process of officially recognizing her as a saint is in progress.

What is the importance of Moira, of The Handmaids Tale?

Moira is important to show the difficulties in the resistance movement in totalitarianism.

She is sexually uninhibited in her homosexuality in a sexually repressed society, and is punished for it. It does not stop her resistance, and she tries to escape, but is mutilated.

She escapes again, and is forced into prostitution. Yet, through it all, she does not let them beat her into submission.

How does Proctor feel about the court and Mary Warren's part in the proceedings?How has Mary changed?

Proctor has very strong feelings against the court and Reverend Parris. He finds them both hypocritical and unfit to judge. Ultimately, he still is naive in thinking that this will all get straightened out without his having to go. Elizabeth is putting a lot of pressure on him to do the right thing and tell what he knows about Abigail.

Proctor is furious that Mary has disobeyed his orders to stay away from Salem. He is about to beat her when she tells him she will be going to court every day until she takes the steam right out of him by stating that Elizabeth had been accused.

Mary grows more confident as she asserts that it was her testimony that there was no indication of witchcraft in the house that has saved Elizabeth. This is not the same Mary that we saw in act one who was timid and frightened of her employer. Mary has gained power from her participation in the court proceedings and is enjoying the fact that Proctor no longer controls her.

What epic theme does the first part of The Lord of the Rings and The Odyssey share?

I suppose you are after something like "The fate of many is sometimes determined by the choices of one or a few."

In both stories the protagonist has great responsibility since the consequences of his acts are far-reaching. Because of this, leadership is portrayed more as a responsibility and even a burden rather than a privilege:  "To whom much is given much is required."

In both there is also the idea of a quest (something to be found or a challenge to be met), which is a leit motif often appearing in the epic genre.

Other common elements of the epic are a long journey or war and the story covering several generations (a saga).

What does "here is all the invisible world, caught, defined and calculated" symbolize in The Crucible?

The first answer is right to say that the town is under siege, but I do not think that is really captured in the quote you cite.  To me, this quote is about the ways that people use the invisible world for their own ends.

The quote you cite talks about the invisible world being "caught, defined and calculated."  Who has caught it, how have they defined it and what are they calculating?

The people who have caught it are those who have power or want power.  They are not accusing and punishing people because they think they are guilty.  They are doing it because it can help them get what they want.  Parris wants to use the invisible world to make himself look more important.  Putnam wants to use it to destroy his enemies.  Danforth also wants to use it to keep his authority strong.  Abigail wants to use it to get revenge.

In this play, the real people are using the invisible world -- they are defining it and calculating how it can help them.  So the quote symbolizes or refers to how the hysteria is driven by the ambitions of various people.

What does the dog represent in the essay "A HANGING" BY GEORGE ORWELL?

I guess I would say that there are two ways you can look at this.

First, you can look at the dog as comic relief.  Comic relief is used in plays and such -- there's a bit of comedy during a tense time to let the audience relax a bit.  You could say that this is what is going on.

The other thing you can say is that the dog sort of indicates how inhumane the hanging is.  When the hanging is first starting, it works sort of like a machine.  But then when the dog comes in, all the participants become human again, in a sense.  They have to react to something in human ways instead of just carrying our their assignments like machines.

Since the dog makes them more human, it sort of emphasizes how inhumane the hanging itself is.

Describe 'Offences against minors (Computer Misuse)' and give a simple example of what a student working with IT in a school/college should...

On October 30, 1998 America legislated the Protection of Children From Sexual Predators Act:  Public Law No: 105-314.

Offenses against minors include

a) Use of minors in computer projects without consent of an adult or guardian

b)Child abuse and pornography

c) Exposing minors to adult content

d) Allowing minors to explore or access material intended for a mature audience.

This act does not only tries to protect minors, but also intended to protect minors from adults who have a history of pedophilia from accessing computers if they are in prison. While we cannot control what happens outside the boundaries of the law, an IT student can look into this and serve voluntarily as a resource that can help the police and other agencies to prevent child abuse and the misuse of computers for this purpose.

Title VIII of the Act states:

Title VIII:  Restricted Access to Interactive Computer Services - Prohibits any Federal agency, officer, or employee from implementing or providing financial assistance to any Federal program or activity in which a Federal prisoner is allowed access to any electronic communication or remote computing service without the supervision of a Government official.

Urges State Governors, legislators, and prison administrators to prohibit unsupervised access to the Internet by State prisoners.

One thing IT students should take into consideration is that the Internet does not need to be accessed through a computer: A good phone smuggled into a prison can be the source of lots of unethical practices. Many minors these days carry phones that can access the internet, and which may not filter websites that might be dangerous to them. Anyone with access to the Net, in whichever way or form, is in danger of being an object of abuse.  If you are an IT student and you abuse your privileges as a computer user, you may suffer consequences including removal of computer equipment, limitations to internet access, and even expulsion. IT students have to be especially careful to comply with every single rule regarding access to the web and following appropriate rules of netiquette.

When Daisy tells Nick the story of her daughter's birth, what does she say that she hopes the daughter will turn into?

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy tells Nick that she hopes her daughter will grow up to be a beautiful fool:

...I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I interpret this statement to be satirical and ironical on Daisy's part.  Daisy is intelligent and is capable of satire and irony.  Daisy knows this is the way for a woman to be successful and upwardly mobile in her society.  It's what Daisy has had to do.  It is easy for readers to condemn Daisy, but a reader's first duty is to understand a character.  That's one of the things mature, sophisticated fiction is about.  And a woman in Daisy's world has limited options.  That has maybe changed today, but it took many decades since the twenties to do so.  Daisy is commenting on her society and the predicament a woman faces.  Being a "beautiful fool," or at least playing the role of a beautiful fool, is the daughter's only hope, in Daisy's eyes.  She will have to play along with men as Daisy has had to play along with her husband.

What specific steps does Montressor take to ensure that his plan works in killing Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Montresor has his plan carefully worked out. First, he makes sure his servants will be out of the house by telling them he will be out all night, but he wants them to stay at home and not go to Carnivale. Montresor knows the servants will leave. This way, no one will see Fortunato go to Montresor's house. Next, Montresor uses Fortunato's ego against him by saying he needs Fortunato's expert opinion on some wine he has bought. Then Montresor baits Fortunato by saying he'll get Luchesi, another wine expert, to do it. Of course, Fortunato takes the bait and insists on going with Montresor. Montresor is very nice to Fortunato beforehand so Fortunato will have no reason to think that anything is wrong. Once in the catacombs, Montresor encourages Fortunato to drink more so it will be easier to chain him to the wall. Montresor then walls Fortunato in the alcove so he will never be found. Montresor is telling the story fifty years after the crime, so he is never caught and does committ the perfect crime, as far as carrying out the murder.

What does Scrooge mean by saying that they should "decrease the surplus?"

This statement reveals a couple of things about Scrooge. First, it reveals his cold-heart; he would rather see the poor people die instead of helping them, and by dying, they would be doing a service to the world by "decreas[ing]the surplus population;" You must keep in mind that when Dickens wrote the Carol, London, England was inundated with people looking for work; this was due to industrialization where machines were replacing people who worked on farms, so as they were replaced by machines, they began to flock to the cities looking for work. Thus the city was over populated, which caused many problems and became a huge financial burden.

Secondly, it reveals that Scrooge is a follower of Thomas Malthus who in 1803 published an essay titled "Essay on the Principles of Population." His essay posed the argument that

"A man who is born into a world possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on which he has a just demand, and if society do not want his labour, has no claim of right of the smallest portion of food, and in fact, has no business to be where he is. At Nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone . . ."

Men like Malthus and Scrooge believed that war, famine and pestilence were necessary in order to keep the population down, especially the poor people.

How was the Atlantic slave trade organized? That is, where was this trade taking place,who was participating in it, and who was profiting from it?

The Atlantic slave trade was taking place between Africa and the Americas, for the most part.  Of course, different people participated in it at different times and different people profited from it.

In general, the slave ships tended to be English.  They could be from England or they could be from the Northern colonies of North America (Massachusetts, etc).  These traders profited a great deal from taking the slaves to the Americas and from shipping American goods such as rum to England.  Profits were also made by people who outfitted the ships and the people who wrote insurance policies for them.  In other words, many people in the North profited.

It is also worth noting that some Africans profited.  Specifically, the Africans who caught other Africans and sold them to the slave traders made a great deal of profit from their part in the trade.

What contrasting concepts of love are presented in Act I, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet?

There are a couple of concepts of love (and other things) that can be seen in this scene.

First, you have all the stuff that Sampson says.  It's not love, really, that he's talking about, but it is relations between men and women.  His vision of "love" is the sort of swaggering, bragging, women-are-sex-objects view of "love."

Then you have Romeo's "love" for Rosaline.  His is a sort of pathetic infatuation.  He idolizes her and plaes her on a pedestal.  His "love" for her makes him weak because she won't return that love.

So the contrast is between two things that I wouldn't even call love -- there's treating women as sex objects and treating them as unattainable and perfect.

What figure of speech is used in this line from "Macbeth" Act IV, Scene 3?" Let us rather, hold fast the mortal sword and like good men Bestride...

I would say that there are two figures of speech used in this quote.  I would say that Shakespeare is using hyperbole and personification.

In this scene, Malcolm and Macduff are talking about what to do next.  Malcolm just wants to sit down and cry, but Macduff speaks the line you cite.  In it, he is saying that instead of sitting down and mourning, they should grab their swords and defend Scotland (their "birthdom").

I think this is hyperbole because the two of them alone cannot really defend Scotland -- Macduff is exaggerating what they can do so as to encourage Malcolm.

I think it is personification because "bestride" means to stand over someone who's on the ground and defend them.  Macduff is saying Scotland is like a wounded comrade lying on the ground and they have to bestride it and defend it.

What are some examples of prejudice being shown in Chapter 14?

The Finch children discover prejudice first-hand in Chapter 14 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. While downtown, they hear people remark, "There's his chillun'" and "Yonder's some Finches," but when they turn to see who makes the comments, they see only backs turned toward them. The people are upset because it is now common knowledge that Atticus will be defending the Negro, Tom Robinson.

They also observe Aunt Alexandra's racial bigotry when she declares that Jem and Scout "may not" visit Calpurnia's house. In the end, they do not visit Calpurnia, but Atticus has a long talk with Atticus about Calpurnia's well established place in the Finch family. 

In Brave New World, what is Helmholtz's job?no

Helmholtz Watson is a professor and a writer.

He has been what they call an "emotional engineer."  He basically writes propaganda to help people remember and really internalize the basic values of their society.  In addition, he teaches other people how to do the same work.

In the book, his job starts to get him down, though.  He's really good at what he does, but he feels like the stuff he's writing has no soul to it.  He wants to write poetry about real emotions, but he and the people in the society don't have any.

What social impact did Jacob Riis have? If any impacts on America at all?

It is hard to say that Riis in particular had any social impact.  However, Riis and others like him certainly had an impact on their time.

Riis was one of the muckrakers, the people who exposed poor conditions in various aspects of American life.  In Riis's case, he made the public and powerful people more aware of the harsh conditions in which poor people in the cities lived.  The attention that this brought helped to cause the Progressives to reform the way things were done in American cities.  The Progressives pushed for better, more honest city governments and better laws to ensure that housing was safe, clean, etc.

So in that way, you can say that Riis had an impact.

Please explain the line, "A little more than kin, and less than kind!" which occurs in Hamlet, Act I.ii.

The quote is rendered by Hamlet as an aside in Act I, Scene ii of Shakespeare's Hamlet, as is correctly reported in your other answers. I'll just add that the scene has the newly crowned King Claudius in company with Hamlet's mother, Claudius's new Queen; Polonius and his son Laerees; Hamlet; and two others. The King is conducting the business of state and, while doing so, says:

Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--

King Claudius dispatches business; grants that Laertes should be allowed to return to France, with Polonius's consent; and turns to Hamlet saying, "But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--." Hamlet here responds to the address of "my son" with aside quoted: "A little more than kin, and less than kind." Hamlet is alluding in the first part of the quote to Claudius's role as his King, which makes him more than kin, a role he has by virtue of his marriage to Hamlet's mother. He is alluding in the second part to his bitter, shocked feelings at the suspect marriage between the two when he says, "...and less than kind."

The prolouge from The Canterbury Tales presents a panoramic view of medieval society.write an essay in which you describe ths society as it may be...

To me, the distinguishing feature of the social order of this time was how separated and static it was.  People were born to a certain class and pretty much stayed there.

The other thing about it was the importance of the Catholic Church.  The Church still had a lot of power not just over people's souls, but also economic and political power.  You can see the power of the Church in such clergy members as the Monk and the Prioress.

The three different kinds of people that you see in the Prologue are the clergy, the nobles (the knight and the squire) and the commoners.  Among the commoners you have richer ones and poorer ones, but they are all commoners and therefore lower in society than the nobles.

In terms of morality and gender politics, why would one consider Macbeth as one of Shakespeare's most important plays?

The morality in Shakespeare's Macbeth is clear cut and absolute.  The main character and protagonist is clearly evil, or to be more specific, he is clearly, obsessively ambitious and kills or orders the killings of numerous people. 

Contrast this to, for instance, Hamlet. Claudius is clearly evil, but he is not the main character and his guilt is in question through about half of the play.  The tragic figure, however, is not evil and suffers his fall for reasons that do not pertain to morality.

Thus, one might view Macbeth as more imprtant than other Shakespeare plays, in terms of morality.

Concerning gender roles, the reversal of them is central to Macbeth.  The witches appear to be women but have beards; Macbeth, at least early in the play, exhibits emotions more often associated with women--guilt, mercy, doubt; Lady Macbeth, in contrast, wants to be more like a man:  she pleads with the spirits to "unsex" her, turn her figuratively into a man, stop her from feeling emotions like mercy and kindness.  These role reversals make the play important in terms of gender roles. 

What is research? What are the various types of research? Explain.Asked question is related with - Research Methodology

Research may be very broadly defined as systematic gathering of data and information and its analysis for advancement of knowledge in any subject. research attempts to find answer intellectual and practical questions through application of systematic methods.

Types of research can be classified in many different ways. some major ways of classifying research include the following.

• Descriptive versus Analytical Research


• Applied versus Fundamental Research


• Qualitative versus Quantitative Research


• Conceptual versus Empirical Research

Descriptive research concentrates on finding facts to ascertain the nature of something as it exists. In contrast analytical research is concerned with determining validity of hypothesis based on analysis of facts collected.

Applied research is carried out to find answers to practical problems to be solved and as an aid in decision making in different areas including product design, process design and policy making. Fundamental research is carried out as more to satisfy intellectual curiosity, than with the intention of using the research findings for any immediate practical application.

Quantitative research studies such aspects of the research subject which are not quantifiable, and hence not subject to measurement and quantitative analysis. In contrast quantitative research make substantial use of measurements and quantitative analysis techniques.

Conceptual research is involves investigation of thoughts and ideas and developing new ideas or interpreting the old ones based on logical reasoning. In contrast empirical research is based on firm verifiable data collected by either observation of facts under natural condition or obtained through experimentation.

How does "Les Miserables" prove or disprove that man is more a product of his environment than of his intrinsic nature?"Les Miserables" by Victor...

Hero and also the central pivot around whom the narrative plans articulate is Jean Valjean, whose tragic destiny turned irretrievably into a nightmare when, for stealing a loaf of bread, was sentenced to prison.

 Even after ten years of penal servitude, he is forced to hide under false identities of relentless persecution of the policeman Javert, unable to see beyond the law, the complexity of the human soul.

Convinced of his mission, inspired by Dante, to make from reality a hell, novelist structures in the sequence of epic scenes,the adventures through the hero passes  to save his life and to protect Cosette,daughter of a prostitute,which he considered his own daughter,who Valjean saved her from the house of Thénardier's, where she was subjected to inhuman treatment.

Without being a vindictive human and without trying to replace human or divine justice, Jean Valjean is following his troubled existence on the road to continuing ascent to absolute ethics. The thread of his biography is  woven with other destinies,entered also in the context of the same age, which makes from the novel building a true social fresco.

Surrounded by characters from all social circles, Jean Valjean has to overcome obstacles related to the history or the dual nature of man, varying as human being between good and evil; his path, although often interspersed with setbacks, is ascendant and triumphant in the moral order.

This world of "miserable", gathered around its representative echo,is including other characters, as vivid and credible in their dramas as Jean Valjean. The first episode is surprising Fantine- a young forced to abandon his daughter after the student who seduced her, dropped her - which bears on her forehead, as predestination,the stigma of  anonymity and pain. Little Cosette, reached in the hands of the couple Thénardier, reddit mother's story to share with readers the message the society of that time, that suffering is possible at any age.

Hugo's novel confirms his greatness by that it addresses the major issues of his century, human degradation caused by the pressing society.

This is a follow-up to a question that someone else posted about Gene and Finny's friendship. I am interested in writing an essay on his/her...

Concerning Finny's and Gene's virtue in A Separate Peace, I'll comment on the winter carnival.  I'm not sure "virtue" is the correct word, though.  Virtue seems too serious and perhaps has negative connotations that don't seem to fit the situation.

Two elements of the winter carnival can help you here, I think.  First, Brinker takes obsessive control of the hard cider he has attained.  He arranges for someone else to guard it for him when he himself can't do it throughout the day, and then stands guard over it himself as the boys are about to begin the carnival.  Apparently, Finny has arranged--when he gives the word--for everyone to "jump" Brinker and grab the cider.  That is how the carnival gets underway.  The sense that I get from this is that Finny can't allow anyone to have a false sense of control or security.  He's not hurtful, just instructive.  Brinker's control was an illusion.  Finny, at least on the surface, has a monopoly on illusion.  You'll have to read the incident yourself and see what you think.

Second, and more obvious and widely written about, is Finny's vicariously living through Gene.  Gene's athleticism is the focus of the carnival.  Since Gene can no longer participate in sports, he pushes Gene to do it for him.  Gene at first goes along out of a sense of duty, but soon begins to revel in it.

Critical summary of Robert Frosts' poem "Home Burial"?

To add somewhat to the previous post, Frost depicts two different ways of grieving the death of an infant through the mother and father.  Because Amy is physically much closer to the infant through childbirth and nursing, she is unable to move on when the baby dies. She wants the world to stand still; she wants the baby's life to matter.  She cannot live her life as if the baby did not live:  "

Friends make a pretense of following to the grave,

But before one is in it, their minds are turned

And making the best of their way back to life

And living people, and things they understand . . .

I won't have grief so

If I can change it.  

The father, however, can draw closure.  He buries the baby in the ground.  This physical action enables him to move on to other things.  He cannot understand his wife's grief, and she cannot understand his seeming lack of it.  Unfinished sentences throughout the poem help to convey the sense of helplessness each has in trying to communicate to the other. 

Also indicative of their lack of communication and lack of understanding are the generalizations each makes about the opposite sex.  Amy questions whether any man can speak honestly and openly about "a child's he's lost." The man complains that a

a man must partly give up being a man

with women folks.

These types of generalizations do much to build walls of separation between the two. 

Frost shows how such a traumatic event strains a marriage.  Their positions on the staircase emphasize the separation; he at the bottom and she at the top, and later, these positions are reversed. At the top of the staircase is a view of the source of the problem; at the bottom of the staircase is the door,a possible resolution, escape.   

Amy's instinct is to run, to escape from the source of her grief.  The man's instinct is to use force to try to keep what's left of his family together.  We don't know if either is successful. 

The poem is structured dramatically.  It is told from an objective viewpoint, not taking either the side of the wife nor that of the husband.  It shows how the death of a baby can cause the death of a marriage.    Frost creates a delicate balance in his treatment of the two parents.  The woman is in obvious pain; the man wants desperately to help her move on, but his words are ineffective, patronizing, and waver between sympathetic and scornful.  The woman, though, seems hysterical and intent on blaming her husband for doing what he needs to do:  continuing to work. 

Who is Signoir Montanto and what is his relationship to Beatrice (Act I, scene I)?

Signior Mountanto is Benedick, and Beatrice calls him "Signior Mountanto" in Act 1, Scene 1. This would have been seen as humorous by an Elizabethan audience, as mountanto refers to "montanto," which is a term associated in fencing to an upward thrust. Beatrice is implying, therefore, that Benedick has bad fencing skills. The technique used here is a pun.