What are all the specific events, throughout the play, that must be added into a biography of Blanche Dubois?this is for a drama presentation! so...

Blanche Dubois is a New Orleans native, and member of a formerly well-to-do family who has now lost both its money and its prestige.  This has not deterred Blanche from desperately trying to cling to the past, still possessing the mannerisms and empty hopes of a woman who wants to desperately climb back up the social ladder.

Due to her oversexed nature, Blanche has become involved with several men, in hopes of recapturing her long gone years where she would be the center of attention, and men used to make her high promises. It is years later now, and Blanche has not entirely lost her appeal, but certainly age and the lack of cash have played a number.

Furthermore, Blanche has a dark past: She is an alcoholic, a potential sex addict, and she lost her husband to suicide. She has also had illicit relations with just about every man she has met. She can no longer hope for a gentleman caller of the caliber that she would want, so instead, she has opted as a last resort to conquer Mitch, a semi-educated and blue collar man who is her last chance to clean up her reputation.

Unfortunately, she is entirely dependant on her sister, who is married to Mr. Kowalski, a man who continuously bullies both Blanche and her sister. The snobbery that continuously accompanies Blanche leads Kowalski to ruin her chances with Mitch. He also brutally rapes her, declares her insane, and sends her to a sanatorium.

Blanche's sadness is directly proportional to the vacuous nature of her life. She has nothing to life for, nor nobody to live for, nor with. Her ostentatious cling to the past is nothing but to cover the superficiality of her existence, and the lack of everything of what made her so special in her better years.

Act 4: What is the effect of Sarah Good's and Tituba's talk about flying south? Why does Miller include this talk?

We might point to several meanings behind the section of the play in question.

First, this conversation takes place at the very opening of the act (Act 4) and serves to set a particular tone of paranoia. Both Tituba and Sarah Good are frantic in their belief that the devil is coming to fly them away to Barbados. Sarah Good's description of the impending event in speaking to the Marshal Herrick is "Oh, it be a grand transformation, Marshal!"

Her exuberance fails to convince Herrick, who sees Sarah Good as a deranged person. This point of view is important in context. The town has recently sentenced many people to hang, including John Proctor, based on the word of people deemed credible.

Those "credible" people (i.e., Abigail) say things about witches and devils very similar to Sarah Good and Tituba, however, those people are believed because they are not outcasts or liminal figures as Tituba and Sarah Good happen to be.

Goody Good is a ragged and crazy woman who seems to live on the edges of town life.

Thus social position is equated to credence or "believability" in this passage of dialogue between Sarah Good, Tituba and Marshal Herrick. Seen in this light, we can perhaps re-evaluate the reasons for John Proctor's legal (and social) condemnation. He too exists as a liminal figure in the Salem community and his word is not believed. 

So here we have looked at two ways this passage functions in the text. It establishes a tone of paranoia that will be continued in Act 4 (especially with Parris) and it offers an insight into one of the play's central themes - "social truth" often conquers factual truth. 

Is Macbeth's desire to be safe in his new role as king?

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, once Macbeth has killed the king and been crowned himself, two new desires emerge.

First, Macbeth wants to be safe in his kingship.  He is worried about rebellions against him.  Banquo in particular is a threat since he knows the details of the witches' prophecies, and could suspect Macbeth (Banquo does suspect, but he doesn't reveal that to Macbeth).  Macduff is also a possible threat, since he was the one who questioned Macbeth's killing of the grooms and did not attend Macbeth's coronation, which is a public slight.

Second, Macbeth's ambition has become such that being king himself is no longer enough.  Once he is crowned, he begins plotting to create a dynasty, with Scotland being ruled by his heirs.  This adds pressure and anxiety to Macbeth's life, and what he must do (kill Banquo and Fleance) to ensure his heirs will rule, adds risk.  

Macbeth does have a desire to be "safely thus" once he becomes king, but he never achieves this desire.

Discuss the differences of approach in Tennyson's and Browning's attempts to address the ills of their society.

Alfred Tennyson sometimes made allusion in his poetry to the social and scientific issues that were so distressing to many Victorians, including Tennyson, related to the discoveries of geological and astronomical time and Darwinian theory. As a devout Christian, he added references in his poetry about how one might keep faith in God and yet acknowledge the "progress" of sciences understanding. Additionally, he would use some poetic works to express opinion about social issues like fair treatment of women and women's right to attain higher education.

Robert Browning, on the other hand, often took a psychological approach to addressing the ills of society. His poetry, often composed as dramatic monologues, told stories through various characters. Since Browning was therefore writing in a character voice and not his own, he was free to create characters that were capable of as much evil as good. In this way Browning could explore the psychology of crime and brutality as easily as he could explore goodness and beauty. He exposed the inner mind behind some of the situations of society and used his poetic stories to discuss philosophical points relevant to issues from art and beauty to materialism.

Can you give me a brief summary of any book written by Maya Angelou?

Mrs. Annie Johnson the main character in the New Directions is Maya Angelous grandmother. Maya Angelou is the writer. Annie Johnson is the same person called Momma and Mrs Henderson in " I know why the caged bird sings" which was maya Angelous childhood story. Definitely a must read also. In this essay maya explains how her grandmother pursued a goal of providing for her family (2 sons) at the end of the turning century, economic success was not easy for an African American woman. In many parts of the countrydiscrimination kept African Americans from obtaining an education or high paying jobs. In addition to that being a woman. Woman were considered being men's inferiors and were excluded from the best jobs. Many African American woman could only find work as servants, such as cooks or maids. Annie Johnson however was determined to overcome these obstacles. Starting off by dumping her husband, him taking everything including all the money she starts off with nothing and ends up in the end with a store with people dependent on her.. :D

In Fahrenheit 451, where dones Guy first meet Faber? Before he was forced into retiring, what was Faber's profession?

Guy meets Faber in a park a year before the events in the novel take place. This flashback foreshadows Montag's eventual desire to leave the social constrictions imposed on all citizens. Montag initiates the conversation by starting with a banal discussion of the weather. Eventually, while sitting beneath the trees in the park, Faber "lost his fear of Montag" and "talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park, and when an hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymeless poem." 

This conversation, in which Montag learns that Faber worked as an English professor at a liberal arts college, ends with Faber handing Montag his contact information "in case you decide to be angry with me."

When Montag gains curiosity about the book he's stolen, Faber is the only person he can think to approach. The fact that Montag had filed Faber's contact information under "FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS (?)" and had never turned him in indicates that Montag's decision to become a lawbreaker wasn't a random event. While Clarisse helped prod Montag along his course, Montag himself had seeked out information a year before. 

What is the Victorian crisis as reflected in Tennyson's poetry.

A very good question indeed.

In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. Darwin suggested that humans are actually originated from the apes. This struck the Orthodox, and moved the faith of people in religion. Besides, the industrial revolution caused rapid growth of factories, mills, industries, and people began to yield to mammon while capitalism enveloped spirituality. Human race became calculating and materialistic. Science brought new inventions and these inventions, while doing good to humans, but also, were making them more mechanized. They were more interested in business than religion, were busy in working and making money.

This conflict between science and religion is wonderfully depicted in the poems of those poets who were extremely worried because of the conflict, Matthew Arnold is one of those. Poets like Arnold of nineteenth century started to hold a very pessimistic view about the Victorian crisis, and in almost all his poems, he seems to express only a negative attitude toward his contemporary age. But we see a quite dissimilar attitude in the poems of his most renowned contemporary, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and then shows a positivity or a ray of hope at the end of almost all his poems. In fact the poem 'the Charge of the Light Brigade' which is based upon the Crimean War, describes the marvelous courage of the British soldiers and pays homage to them.

In fact, the frequent use of myths in many of his poems proves that, Tennyson believed not to stagnate in a melancholic state. Rather through going back to classical myths, he is trying at least to find a sort of solution to some extents.

Because of the quality to look for a middle ground, Tennyson is considered as a compromising craftsman who does neither yield to the crisis of his age nor possess a carefree attitude towards the problems, rather keeps compromising and finding a solution.