Thursday, August 4, 2011

I need to present a clear understanding of cyber bullying as a health issue.

Any form of bullying creates emotional and mental stress on the person being bullied that often results in physical and psychological health issues; many already mentioned.


Cyber bullying may exaggerate the stress of physical bullying because the person being bullied may not even know who is doing the bullying.  That can make them distrustful of everyone around them and fearful that the one person they confide in could be the bully.


Cyber bullying is a health issue for anyone of any age.  It is especially nasty for tweens and teens who are dealing with the emotional issues of growing up, trying to establish their own emotional balance, learning to trust people outside of their small circle of family and childhood friends, and adjusting to the changes in their physical body.


More information is available through the links below, especially the Cyberbullying Research Center.  Some of the statistics may differ, depending on your source, because they are based on polls done by different groups, at different times, and with different people.  But all polls shows that youth are targeted frequently and cyber bullying is a big part of the problem.

Why do women choose on looks and not how nice a person isRomeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

To contradict this generalization as it pertains to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it is Romeo who consents to attend the fete that the Capulets have and look.  When he does see Juliet, it is Romeo who falls instantly in love.  Therefore, Romeo is the one who chooses on looks.  Juliet is hesitant to touch him when he offers her his hand as "a good pilgrim"; she is not the one swearing by the moon, either.


Earlier in the play, when Lady Capulet asks Juliet about Paris--"What say you?  can you love the gentleman?"--Juliet replies,



I'll look to like, if looking liking move./But no more deep will I endart mine eye/Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. (I,iii,101-103)



It is again Romeo, rather than Juliet who is infatuated with appearances in Act II.  For, after he scales the walls of the Capulet orchard, he stands in awe under her balcony:



But soft!  What light through yonder window breaks?


It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!


Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,


Who is already sick and pale with grief


That though her maid art far more fair than she....


See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!


Oh! that I were a glove upon that hand


That I might touch that cheek! II,ii,1-25)


Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Who are the main characters in Bud,Not Buddy? And what is the resolution of the story?

The main character in the book is 10-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan who has run away from an abusive foster home and is searching for his father.  Other important characters are Herman E. Calloway, the senior member in a jazz band who turns out to be Bud's grandfather, and Miss Thomas, the band's singer, a sensitive and understanding woman who facilitates Calloway's and Bud's bonding.  Less developed characters include Bud's best friend Bugs, Deza Malone, who gives Bud his first kiss, the Amos, mission, and Hooverville families, and band members Mr. Jimmy and Steady Eddie, who give Bud his own horn.

The story is resolved when Calloway acknowledges Bud as his grandson.  The ending is cautiously hopeful, with Bud finding a home with the band and embarking upon a relationship with his grandfather.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What does Montag imagine Beatty would say about the content of books in Fahrenheit 451?

Montag does not have to imagine very hard to know what Beatty would say about the content of books.  In the first part of the book, when Montag is home from work one day, Beatty uses the ruse that he is simply visiting Montag, but his real purpose there is to explain to Montag why their society is the way it is and why it's good.  Among other things, he tells Montag that books made people unhappy because they offended some people, or because they made people compare their own dull lives to the exciting lives of book characters, or because they simply made people think and realize the shortcomings of themselves and their world.  Beatty believed that books allowed and helped people to think.  Later, in part two of the story, right before the fire run is made to Montag's house, Beatty tries to get Montag to see how books' authors contradict one another and confuse people with the contradictions.  Again, Beatty believed books helped people to think and that was something the society of the book did not want.  The ruling power especially did not want that to happen because thinking people are harder to control.  Whether or not Beatty completely believed this is not clear.  Beatty was obviously a well-read man.  He had to be to know as much about and from books as he did.  After Montag killed Beatty, Montag realizes that Beatty had wanted to die.  Beatty purposely badgered Montag while Montag held the flame thrower.

What characteristics do you see in Shylock's speeches?

Shylock often shows his concern with money, but also his resentment concerning how he is treated by the Christians, and sometimes he shows a humanity that is difficult for the audience not to respond to with compassion.  His speech in 3.1 where he clearly says he wants revenge indicates how much he resents the way people mistreat him. "He [Antonio] hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation....," says Shylock to Salarino, showing how deeply he resents their treatment of him. He then insists on his humanity: "Hath not a Jew eyes?  Hath not a Jew hands, organs..." When he discovers his daughter has run away with his money, we see how avaricious he is. "My ducats, my daughter!" he exclaims, causing us to think, perhaps, that he values his money as much as or perhaps more than he does his daughter.

Why do you think Hamlet will not tell where Polonius’s body is hidden? Is this an act of madness?act 4 sc 3.

Another question regarding Polonius' body is: Why did Hamlet hide it in the first place? He dragged it out of his mother's bedroom out of consideration for her feelings. But he didn't have to hide it unless he had some motive for doing so. He has apparently decided to pretend to be insane. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask him where he has hidden the body, he replies in such terms that they can't understand him. Then at the end of this short scene he "runs off" crying "Hide fox, and all after" (Act 4, Scene 2). No doubt he is improvising. He wants them to think that in his madness he believes they are all playing a game, including Polonius, who, he pretends to believe, is really alive but hiding. After all, Polonius really was hiding behind the arras, and this may have suggested to Hamlet the notion of pretending that they were all playing a game comparable to our contemporary game of Hide and Seek. In the game of Hide Fox, and All After, it appears that only one player hides and all the others look for him. The one who finds the fox becomes the fox himself, which is the role everybody wants. Hamlet suggests that he found Polonius hiding and has now become the fox himself.


There is nothing insane about Hamlet. If he had told Rosencrantz and Guildenstern where he had hidden the body, that would be the same as admitting that he had killed him. Obviously they would have found the body with a stab wound and bloody clothing. No one but Gertrude really knows that Hamlet killed Polonius. Claudius only knows what Gertrude told him, and she didn't tell him everything. And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern only know what Claudius told them.

Monday, August 1, 2011

In what important ways would the story "Everyday Use" be different if Dee were the narrator telling it from the first-person point of view?

First, consider what kind of person Dee is. How does she view her mother and sister? Does she look down on them because they're poor? Does she think she's better than they are? What's important to Dee? Why does she want the quilt and other things from her mother's house? She sees the things as collectibles to display in her apartment, but her mom still uses them.

After answering the questions above, go back through the events of the story and ask how Dee would feel and what she would say about it. For example, do you think Dee is looking forward to going to see her mother and sister? Probably not. What kinds of things might she say to her male friend who goes with her? How do you think Dee feels when her mother takes the quilt and gives it to her sister? Is she hurt or angry? What does Dee say when she leaves her mother's house? 

Dee is going to see things differently than her mother. If you have an argument with someone, you tell your point of view of the argument. The person you have an argument with sees it a different way. This is the same thing that the question is asking. List the main events of the story and then write down how Dee would feel and what she would say because Dee lives in a totally different world than her mom and sister. You'll have a new perspective on the story.

Discuss at least two characteristics of Romanticism in John Keat's poem "Ode toa Nightingale".

The poet in Ode To A Nightingale  is an escapist .He escapes through imagination .On his way the bower of the bliss wher the nightingale is ...