What was the name given to the school of thought which the three pigs had turned Old Major's teaching into?

"Animalism" becomes the name of the school of thought that
Old Major inspires and that the pigs adopt when he dies.  Snowball, Squealer, and
Napoleon begin to take charge of this philosophy and start to foment rebellion amongst
the animals on Manor Farm and even set their sights to other farms.  The end purpose of
their intent is to overthrow the humans, like Farmer Jones, and assert their own control
of their own labor and the means of production.  Animalism becomes the code by which the
pigs profess to live in a new world order.  It becomes the talking point between them
and the other animals.  There is some fundamental struggle in trying to convince the
animals of the need for change under Animalism.  Some of them, like Mollie, continually
feel the need for either loyalty to Jones or self- serving elements that preclude the
collective element inherent in Animalism.  Yet, the pigs do not waver.  Snowball is
probably the most vocal in promulgating this school of thought.  This is best seen when
he tells Mollie that "ribbons and sugar" will not be needed and calls her "Comrade." 
The embrace of Animalism from Old Major's teachings becomes one of the fundamental
turning points in the novel, as it sets the stage for what will happen when the animals
do gain control of the farm and make it "Animal Farm."

Identify some of the "not-so-obvious" conflicts in Act 1 of The Crucible.

I think that the Act I probably features the most amount
of conflict present.  It is the exposition for what will come later.  However, there are
some conflicts that are meaningful, but might be lost in the midst of the more
dominating conflicts.

In the extensive stage instructions
to Act I, Miller points out an interesting conflict present between the founding of
Salem with that of Jamestown.  The latter was founded on economic profit, while the
former was founded on spiritual grounds.  This helped to create a distinction between
both.  Yet, when the land charter to Salem was revoked, it created a sense of fear in
the community that their land could be taken and as others sought to gain more land, it
came at the cost of other people.  In this, there is a conflict between spirituality and
economics both in the historical condition of Salem and in its present
context.

I think that conflict is also evident in the
girls, themselves.  Abigail is no doubt the leading figure, the "queen bee."  Yet, I
think that there is conflict present in how Mary Warren seems to be less inclined to
continue with the plan than the other girls.  This conflict is going to become more
pronounced in Act III when the schism between she and the girls helps to drive her
insane.

Finally, I think that Tituba, as a character, is
wracked with internal conflict.  Naturally, she is accused in a direct manner with
Abigail's words.  Yet, I think that she shows herself to be internally conflicted in a
couple of ways.  She is broken when she is betrayed by Abigail, and fights the uphill
battle to be believed by the others.  She knows that she won't be.  She talks to herself
in the third person, reflecting a sense of internal division within herself, and her
rocking back and forth, repeating Hale's words represent the level of internal conflict
she experiences.  She is fighting within herself for her own safety, and then battling
through the fact that these wealthy White people stand over in and stand in harsh
judgment of her.  Her own accusations and giving of names is a reflection of the
internal and external conflicts she faces.

What does the climax of Into the Wild say about Chris McCandless's life?

Because it is a work of non-fiction, Into the
Wild doesn't have a traditional climax; the end of the story is known from
the start, and the book is more dedicated to tracing Chris's path and trying to analyze
his actions. However, in a purely story-telling sense, the climax comes when Chris
decides to return to civilization:

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In his journal he now wrote, "Disaster. .. .
Rained in. River look impossible. Lonely, scared." He concluded, correctly, that he
would probably be swept to his death if he attempted to cross the Teklanika at that
place, in those conditions. It would be suicidal; it was simply not an
option.
(Krakauer, Into the Wild,
Amazon.com)

This incident
caused Chris to hike back to the old bus, and the rest of his personal story is that of
a man unable to fend for himself anymore. Despite the fact that he had lived
more-or-less comfortably for almost four months, he was unable to continue hunting and
gathering enough food to live; an experiment in smoking the meat of a moose failed, and
so he had no fallback when he began starving to death. His final note, a plea for help,
is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy; at that point, it was unlikely that he could have
survived on his own no matter what happened.

Explain who "the people" were in the Declaration of Independence.

Actually the phrase appears in the Constitution; although
Jefferson does comment in the Declaration that the delegates are
acting.

in the
name, and by the authority of the good people of these
colonies

The Constitution
speaks of "the People of the United States." It constitutes a deliberate contrast with
the opening lines of the Articles of Confederation, which read, "the united States of
America in Congress assembled..... Whether the Constitution means the individual
citizens or the States themselves comprised of the people has been an issue of intense
debate. It is an issue that dogged Constitutional scholars for many years, particularly
prior to the Civil War. The argument was, did the Union consist of the individual states
who formed it? If so they could easily separate from that Union as the Southern states
attempted to do. Or was it a union of the people of the union? If so, individual states
had no right to secede. Abraham Lincoln's position from the beginning was that the Union
was of the people, and not the states, so the southern States never truly left the
Union--they couldn't. It was for this reason when Lincoln planned to reprovision the
garrison at Fort Sumter, he wrote not to the Presidency of the Confederacy, which he did
not recognize, but to the governor of the State of South
Carolina.

The safest and probably most accurate approach
would be to interpret the language of the Constitution in its plain and simplest
meaning: "the people of the United States," who acted through their chosen delegates.
Even the Tea Partiers can't argue with that.

In Alice Walker's short story titled "Everyday Use," how are the differences between the two sisters initially depicted? Which sister most...

In Alice Walker’s short story titled “Everyday Use,” the
two sisters – Dee and Maggie – are initially and consistently described in ways that
emphasize their differences.  Of the two sisters, the one who perhaps most resembles
Walker herself (at least at the time the story was written) is
Maggie.

• Whereas Dee is self-confident and
  attractive, Maggie is described as a “nervous” person who is
  

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homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her
arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and
awe.

• Whereas Dee
  has lighter skin than Maggie and is more attractive physically, Maggie is said to have a
  “thin body” and is compared to a “lame animal.”


• Whereas
  Maggie was burned in a fire that destroyed the family’s earlier house, Dee was untouched
  by the flames and was not bothered by the house’s
  destruction.


• Whereas Dee is well educated and proud of
  her education, Maggie’s education is limited; her own mother describes her as “not
  bright.”


• Whereas Dee dresses well and is stylish, Maggie
  dresses very plainly.


• Whereas Dee is financially
  comfortable, Maggie is not.


• Whereas Dee has a male
  partner, Maggie does not.


• Whereas Dee has changed her
  name, Maggie has not.


• Whereas Dee is highly
  race-conscious, Maggie is not.


• Whereas Dee speaks loudly
  and brashly, Dee speaks “so low you almost couldn’t hear
  her.”


• Whereas Dee “has a temper,” Maggie does
  not.


• Whereas Dee is pretentious and assertive, Maggie is
  humble.


• Whereas Dee is self-centered and demanding,
  Maggie is generous, as when she offers Dee the
  quilts.


• Whereas Dee is ambitious in a worldly way, Maggie
  is not.

Of the two sisters, Walker probably
identified most strongly with Maggie, especially because of “her childhood memories of
the visits home by her brilliant and accomplished older sister, who, as she wrote in her
poem 'For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties,'

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FOUND ANOTHER
WORLD

Another life    With
gentlefolk

Far less
trusting

And moved and moved and
changed

Her
name."

(See Susan Belasco and
Linck Johnson, eds., The Bedford Anthology of American Literature 2
vols. (Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2008), 2:
1450.

• In addition, like Maggie, Walker herself
  had suffered an early physical impairment: she became blind in one eye after having been
  shot in that eye by a BB gun.

Explain the virtues that are discussed in Summer of My German Soldier.

I think that one of the strongest virtues that is brought
out in Greene's work is the idea of tolerance.  The setting of Jenkinsville is an arena
that is fraught with intolerance of all kinds.  There is racial, class based, as well as
the personal intolerance of those who are different from the norm.  One of the strongest
statements that the book makes in terms of virtue is how there has to be a spirit of
inclusion and acceptance if a community seeks to aspire to the democratic ideals of
which it is capable.  This becomes extremely important in the construction of how
individuals view society and for this reason it becomes an example of a virtue that the
book seeks to advocate.  Another virtue that is present in the book is the idea that the
individual can rise up against society and represent an example of what should be as
opposed to what is.  Patty experiences a transformation from insider to outsider. 
Within this evolution and at the end of the novel, one gets the impression that Patty
understands more of who she is and the extent of her society around her.  In doing so,
Patty becomes a "champion" of sorts, and one that embodies the virtue of endurance and
personal strength, elements that allow her to sustain the difficult times and gain some
level of redemption in the process.

In the morning, the pigs reveal that they have learned to read and write. How is this announcement typical of their behavior in Animal Farm?"The...

The pigs pride themselves on being more competent to lead.
When they announce that they have taught themselves to read, they are boasting of their
abilities. They do feel sure of themselves.

The pigs create
a code of ethics for all animals to follow. They create principles or rules and create
seven commandments as guidelines:

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They also paint the basic principles of
Animalism on the wall of the barn:

THE SEVEN
COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever
goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear
clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink
alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals
are equal.

Over the course of
events in the story, the pigs change the commandments by adding a stipulation. For
example, the pigs begin sleeping in the beds in the farmhouse. The commandment "No
animal shall sleep in a bed" is changed to "No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets."
No doubt, the pigs, Napoleon especially, are changing the commandments to fit their
selfish lifestyles.

Truly, the pigs, especially Napoleon,
feel superior to the other animals. This all came about by the fact that the pigs taught
themselves to read.

Ultimately, the pigs take control of
the farm. In fact, they turn on many of the other animals, even breaking the commandment
that states, "No animal shall kill any other animal."

What does Robert Frost say about the world we live in in his poem "The Secret Sits"?By answering the question, link it to why the writer wrote this...

Given that Frost's poem "The Secret Sits" is a simple
couplet (two lines of poetry) and written in anapest trimeter (anapest- a meter with a
three syllable foot; trimeter- the existence of three feet within a single line of
poetry), the meaning of the poem is left up to the
reader.

We
dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and
knows.

In regards to what
Frost could be saying about the world we live in, one could interpret the poem using
religious thought. We, meaning Frost is including the reader in the action, spend our
lives dancing in a circle while contemplating life. In the center lies a greater power,
the "Secret" is God. Only God knows the truth behind all which exists. "We" can only try
to imagine the meaning.

Another interpretation of the poem,
in regards to the world we live in could be based upon the fact that life is left to
interpretation. With each individual, they are given the right to interpret the world as
they see fit based upon their own experiences and morality. That being said, we are
simply allowed to "suppose" about the true reality of life. The "Secret" lies in the
center, it is the only one who knows the truth about life. No one on the outside will
ever gain access to the secret because it will forever remain an unknown- as denoted by
the proper name "Secret".

Basically, Frost is saying that
mankind can only circle the reality of what life really is. No man/woman can enter the
truth of the world because we all have our own understandings of how to define the world
which we inhabit.

How does Love Medicine fit into the postmodernist category?

I think that Erdich's novel fits into a postmodern
designation in a couple of ways.  The first is through her style.  Erdich does not write
with a singular voice or a single narrative guiding the work.  Instead, the voices
shift, the narratives change, and there is a sense of multiple angles of perception
being presented to the reader.  Concerned with relocating "the center" and bringing in
as many voices as possible from margin to focal point, postmodernism finds a home in
this idea.  This "deconstruction" of reality and seeking to provide different approaches
to truth and certainty are both realities in Erdich's work and in postmodernism. 
Additionally, the fact that Erdich is presenting a work from a Native American view
point that is about Native Americans is another element of postmodern thought, a
movement that concerns itself with the crisis of representation.  The presentation of
characters who struggle with both maintaining their own sense of cultural relevancy as
well as their own individual identity is another aspect of postmodern thought, where the
"decentered self" is of vital importance.

Justify the title "The Road Not Taken."This question is from the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.

In the poem "The Road Not Taken," the speaker is sighing
because he could not take both roads. He admits that he is "sorry" to not have had the
opportunity to take both roads. This poem is about the road not taken. The speaker is
reminiscent of the other road. What might have happened had he been able to take the
road not taken? He studied both roads before deciding to take the road less traveled
by:

Two roads
diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be
one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To
where it bent in the
undergrowth.

From this
stanza, we learn that the reader stood a long time while deciding which road to take. He
admits that he regrets not having been able to travel both roads. There is something
about the road not taken that still haunts the speaker. He deliberated about which road
to take. Finally deciding upon the road less traveled by, he states that it has made all
the difference. The question is why is the speaker still sighing about the road not
taken?

I shall
be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And
that has made all the
difference.

Is he sighing
because he is saddened by the fact he could not take both roads? Obviously, the speaker
is thinking about the road not taken. Since way leads on to way, the speaker doubts that
he will ever go back. Therefore, the road not taken will always be a memory of the road
the speaker chose not to take. Would that road have made a difference? The speaker will
never know for time has passed and he took the road less traveled by. If the road less
traveled by has made all the difference, why is the reader still thinking about the road
not taken? Life has a way of making us wonder what would have happened had the speaker
taken the road not taken.

In The Crucible why doesn't Mary want to testify about the doll?

In The Crucible, Mary Warren is a girl working for the
Proctors, who is terrified of her friend Abigail, and the power that Abby has in court. 
By the end of Act Two, it has become terribly apparent that whatever Abby says is
believed in the courts; if she accuses someone of witchcraft, that person is arrested. 
Elizabeth Proctor referred to Abby's power earlier when she mentioned that in town,
"where she walks, the crowd will part like the sea for Israel."  This is a reference to
the Bible where Moses parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to pass unharmed;
essentially, Elizabeth is alluding to the fact that people consider Abby to be an angel
sent from God, and revere her as such.

So, when John
Proctor tells Mary that she needs to go to the courts and let them know that Abby saw
her sew the doll and put it under her chair, Mary is naturally afraid.  She is worried
that Abigail will retaliate and accuse HER of being a witch.  She repeats over and over
at the end of Act Two, "they'll turn on me," meaning Abby and the other girls.  It is a
frightening thing for her to go to the courts and basically say, "Hey everyone.  Uh,
Abigail made up the story about the doll to get Elizabeth arrested."  Mary is quite
aware of the potential for Abby to turn and declare Mary herself to be a witch.  Her
life is at stake, quite literally.

I hope that those
thoughts helped; good luck!

What is an example of the ambiguous position of women in Achebe's Things Fall Apart?I mean by "ambigious position of women" that sometimes they are...

A single example of the ambiguous position of women in
Achebe's Things Fall Apart can be gleaned from the incident between
Okonkwo and his "most senior wife" in the second chapter. The incident reveals, through
one woman, how women are both venerated and
marginalized.

The Mbaino had just fulfilled the terms of
their compensation for having killed "the woman," the "wife of Ogbuefi Udo." Okonkwo had
been granted care of the compensatory boy Ikemefuna. He had "called his most senior
wife" to him to instruct her to care for Ikemefuna.

The
wife's ambiguous position is shown in that she was once venerated and chosen to be
Okonkwo's senior wife. Yet now, she is marginalized as he denounces her for speaking to
him to get clarification. In addition, since she is the "most senior wife," Oknokwo
marginalized her as a woman more pronouncedly by adding more wives to his
household.

"Do
what you are told, woman. ... When did you become one of the
ndichie of
Umuofia?"

The earlier
mentioned incident with the "wife of Ogbuefi Udo" might serve as a second example. After
her murder, she is so venerated that a war is contemplated as revenge for her. Yet she
is so marginalized that Ogbuefi Ezeugo doesn't even bother to name her--calling her only
"a daughter of Umuofia"--in his speech denouncing Mbaino and calling for a decision
against them:

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"Those sons of wild animals have dared to murder
a daughter of Umuofia. ... That woman was the wife of Ogbuefi
Udo."

In Act I scene 4 of Macbeth, when Duncan praises Macbeth and Banquo, he relies almost entirely on imagery related to farming and harvesting.What...

It appears you are refering to the section of this scene
in which Duncan responds to Macbeth's words of allegiance and loyalty and then also
praises Banquo, expressing the desire to give them the power and position that they
deserve for their acts of valour and the way that they have worked to support his
position in the battle. Note what he says:

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I have begun to plant thee, and will
labour

To make thee full of growing.--Noble
Banquo,

That hast no less deserv'd, nor must be
known

No less to have done so, let me infold
thee,

And hold thee to my
heart.

The way in which
Duncan uses a metaphor to describe his role of King and the way that he helps his
faithful Lords to "grow," having been "planted" by him, points towards Duncan's honesty
and simple view of the world. We have already been told that he was completely taken in
by the former treacherous Thane of Cawdor, as Duncan himself says that he put "an
absolute trust" in this traitor, indicating that he is somewhat naive as a character in
whom he trusts. This rather simple, agricultural image of how Duncan sees his role as
King seems to support our impression of him as a well-meaning leader who is nevertheless
unequipped with the Machiavellian understanding that is so essential for his survival,
and leaves him open to Macbeth's evil schemes. He, unlike other characters, does not
pretend to be anything else than he is: a kind, worthy, noble
king.

What is the conflict between Old Major and Napoleon in Animal Farm?I dont understand how their conflict relates to the Russian Revolution.

The major conflict usually discussed in Animal
Farm is between Snowball and Napoleon, so this is an interesting question.
 Just so we are both on the same page, remember that "conflict" describes characters in
the story who either have incompatible goals or some underlying psychological
division...not always a physical conflict.

Napoleon and Old
Major don't have a direct, active conflict in the way that we most think of.  Old Major
was the initiator of the revolution in that he was the one who initially put the idea
into the other animals' heads.  He was a catalyst, but notice that he didn't act until
he was very old, used up, and had nothing to lose.  Old Major doesn't even take part in
the actual "revolution" on the farm.

In the terms of the
Russian Revolution, Old Major could be seen as sort of a Karl Marx.  He's an Idea Pig.
 He dies before the revolution but he sort of gets the ball
rolling.

Napoleon is more like a Joseph Stalin.  He takes
the ideas of the revolution, as given by Old Major, and exploits them.  Napoleon is not
afraid to get his hands dirty.

The conflict between them
would be seen as more subtle; Napoleon is in almost constant conflict with the ideals
that Old Major talked about.  The farm animals have come to believe in those ideals and
they measure events on the farm by them (in their own, limited way.)  So the conflict
between Old Major and Napoleon is one of ideas.

The Russian
Revolution is the same way.  People didn't get involved just to set Stalin up as the
dictator of the Soviet Union.  He had to twist the energy of the revolution to his own
ends, and had to constantly combat the effects of being measured against Marx's original
ideas.

What is the equation of the line in slope-intercept form, that passes through a given point and which is parallel to a given line. For example:...

You are allowed to ask only one question at a time, I have
edited your question to comply with the same.

Any problem
where you want to find the equation of a line in slope-intercept form which is parallel
to a given line and which passes through a given point can be solved in the following
way.

Let the point that is given be (a1, b1) and let the
line be y = mx + c

As two parallel lines have the same
slope the line you get will have the slope m. The line also has to pass through (a1,
b1). It can be written as: (y - b1)/(x - a1) = m

=>
y - b1 = mx - m*a1

=> y = mx + ( b1 -
m*a1)

This is the equation of the line in slope-intercept
form that passes through (a1, b1) and is parallel to y = mx +
c.

In the problems you are given substitute the values of
m, a1 and b1  you get the required equation.

What happens to Gaspard in Book 2 Chapter 15 & 16A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In Chapter XV of Book the Second of A Tale of
Two Cities, the mender of roads climbs the stairs to the garret where once
Dr. Manette had been housed by Ernest DeFarge.  There he relates the story of Gaspard,
the father of the poor child that was run over by the Marquis d'Evremonde's carriage. 
Gaspard had grabbed hold of the chain beneath the carriage of the Marquis and traveled
with it to the chateau where later that night, he killed the
Marquis.

Now, the mender of roads tells DeFarge and the
others that Gaspard was captured;his arms tied to his sides, he was led by six soldiers
to the prison on a hill where he was locked in a cage yet with his arms bound.  Finally,
he was brought to the fountain where a gallows is fixed right above the fountain. There
he is hanged forty feet high--"and is left hanging, poisoning the water."  When he and
Madame DeFarge hear this story, Madame Defarge registers "The chateau and all the race"
in her knitting, and M. Defarge declares, "Extermination."

How does Zaroff justify his hunting of human beings in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Zaroff's decision to hunt human beings comes from his
general boredom from killing wild animals.

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"I exhausted their possibilities, you see. No
thrill left in tigers, no real
danger."

Although he had
killed more animals than he could remember, they no longer were a challenge for the
Cossack. Neither the cape buffalo, which Rainsford called the most dangerous of all
animals, nor the jaguar, for which Zaroff traveled to the Amazon to hunt, interested him
anymore. He worried that he would "go to pieces" without his greatest love. They no
longer fascinated him.

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"Simply this:
hunting had ceased to be what you call 'a sporting proposition.' It had become too easy.
I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than
perfection."

The animal's
instinct was no match for human reasoning, Zaroff told Rainsford. This tragic
realization was the inspiration for a new type of hunt with a different type of
prey.

Zaroff believed
that

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"Life is for the
strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of
the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use
my gift?"

Zaroff, a nobleman,
did not view humans as equals. He believed he had the right to hunt, in what he
considered a civilized manner, 

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     "... the scum of the earth:
sailors from tramp ships--lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels--a thoroughbred
horse or hound is worth more than a score of them."
    
"But they are men," said Rainsford hotly.
    
"Precisely," said the general. "That is why I use them. It gives me
pleasure. They can reason, after a fashion. So they are
dangerous."

Is Othello only a victim of an external evil as it is revealed in the play?

Although Iago's evil machinations lead Othello to his
downfall in the play, it would not be correct to say that he is 'only' a victim of these
events.

Othello is presented with opportunities to hear
from other characters on the suspected affair between Cassio and Desdemona. In Act IV,
Othello asks Emilia, Desdemona's maidservant and wife of his 'honest' Iago, about the
possibility of a liaison between her lady and Cassio-

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I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,

Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
Remove your
thought; it doth abuse your
bosom.

 She swears on her
life that the allegations are untrue, and in fact she will die defending her cause.
There is a warning in her words also about the source of the information he has
received-

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If any wretch have put this in your
head,
Let heaven requite it with the serpent's
curse!

Othello chooses to
ignore her words and continue in his path of
destruction.

 Equally, Desdemona herself professes her
innocence, and Othello again chooses to dismiss her
pleas.

At the beginning of the play Othello called on
Desdemona to testify before the Duke how their relationship began. However, by Act IV he
is unable to listen to any voice other then the poisonous Iago. Othello proves to be a
poor judge of character, however valiant he may be in battle. His own misplaced trust
was his destruction-

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 one that loved not wisely but too
well;

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, why did European diseases wipe out Native Americans and not the other way around?Following the arrival of...

This is because of the fact that the Europeans had had
domesticated animals for a much longer time and had had a broader variety of
domesticated animals.

As people lived in close proximity to
the animals, infectious diseases developed.  The longer people and animals live
together, and the more different kinds of animals there are living with the people, the
more chances there are for infectious diseases to
develop.

In the New World, there were very few domesticated
animals.  In addition, agriculture had not been present for nearly as long as it had
been in Eurasia.  For these reasons, the Europeans (by the time of contact) carried many
infectious diseases while the Native Americans did not.

Hiperion is the embodiment of keats concept of beauty? Explain.

The poem Hyperion by John Keats is representative of the
poet’s concept of beauty in two basic
respects.

First, his study of Greek sculpture as
beauty in terms of human-made objects becomes clear in his clearly defined descriptions
of forms such as Saturn and Thea in Book I, as well as the Titans in Book
II.

From almost the opposite viewpoint, Keats is
far from blind to the beauty of nature. He relates this to the gods that represent the
forces of nature, but also describes them in a uniquely poetic tone. This type of poetry
is exemplary of Keats. His descriptions of the evening and morning sky, the angry
sunset, and a grey, misty dawn are created with a truly aesthetic sense of
beauty.

Keats marries these two divergent types
of beauty almost seamlessly in his poem, creating a conception of beauty that is not the
separation of humanity and nature, but rather their cooperation.

What implications does the fact have that the dead Burmese man had his arms outstretched in the form of crucifix in "Shooting an Elephant"?

First of all, it's important to remember that this is an
account drawn from an true event that occurred when Orwell worked as a British colonial
official in Burma. It is a nonfiction story that some critics call an essay rather than
a short story. Having said this, we may suppose that Orwell actually did encounter a
Dravidian Indian killed by the violence of the elephant and that he was in the position
of or similar to the one the narrator of "Shooting an Elephant" describes.

Therefore, while Orwell may choose the language to capitalize upon
the sight and event and while he may incorporate a writer's perception of symbolism,
metaphor and irony, we cannot assume symbolic significance in Orwell's descriptions.
Having said this, if this were a fictional story, the crucifix would allude to the Roman
crucifixions on Calvary Hill, the most famous of which are the crucifixions of Jesus
Christ and the thieves who were crucified near to him.

Therefore if
the man's position is looked at as symbolism it might be seen one of two ways. It might
first be seen as the sacrificial offering the elephant required to quell his wrath since
afterward, he is found as peaceful as a cow:

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the elephant was in the paddy fields below, only
a few hundred yards away. ... at that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked
no more dangerous than a
cow.

On the other hand, the
man's position might symbolically represent the injustices of an oppressor conqueror
since Jerusalem was occupied by Roman imperialists at the time of Jesus Christ's
crucifixion. The language Orwell chooses to represent the event may therefore be
understood as part of his complaint against colonialism.

Explain the quote "A shriek had been heard by a neighbour during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused;..... premises."Explain those...

After the narrator has murdered the old man whose eye has
offended him to the point that he has felt he must be rid of it, he works to conceal the
body by dismembering it and placing the parts under the flooring the the chamber.  As
the four o'clock hour of the morning tolls, he finishes.  Then, there is a knock at his
door; still, the narrator is not nervous because he feels he has nothing to fear.  Three
policemen enter, reporting that there has been a report filed at the station that a
shriek was heard, and they have come to
investigate.

Cleverly, the narrator declares that he has
cried out in a nightmare. Embellishing his story, he tells the policemen that the old
man has gone to the country.  To lend verity his words, the narrator leads the police to
the man's empty room where he also shows them his valuables lest they believe a thief
has entered the house. Then, with great bravado, the narrator places chairs and invites
them to sit and visit as he is "singularly at ease."  However, the narrator has
discounted his conscience: 

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But ere long I felt myself getting pale and
wished them gone.  My head ached and I fancied a ringing in my
ears. 

Significantly, it is
then that the greater horror of the tale emerges.  For, Poe's narrator has descended
into madness and the horror of his deed takes possession of his mind.  Thus, in the
guilt and terror of his own madness, the narrator "hears" the beating of the old man's
heart, an unrelenting beating that persists in his own mental
torture,

Oh,
God!  What could I do?....

"Villains!" I shrieked. 
Disemble no more! I admit the
deed!...."

In his insanity
and psychological torment, Poe's narrator imagines that the policemen have acted in such
a way as to induce him to confess his guilt and betray himself.

What is the metaphor contained in the title of The Left Hand of Darkness?

The title comes from one of the mythical tales enriching
the book; the complete sentence is: “Light is the left hand of darkness, darkness is the
right hand of light.” Light and darkness are obviously two contrasting elements which
are seen here as interrelated; the juxtaposition of seemingly different images or ideas
is clearly one of the themes of the novel and, especially, of the myths. We are reminded
of Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, where opposites are put
together to surprise and puzzle the reader; for example, one concept (good) cannot exist
without its opposite (evil), as “the Lamb” needs “the Tyger”. In LeGuin’s book, one
contrasting element defines the other, and one cannot survive without the other. Every
creature is endowed with contradictory components which, instead of crippling the
person, make him/her whole; the duplicity of all creation is underlined every step of
the way. This clearly refers to the inherent twofold nature of the Gethenians but also
to the relationship between Genly Ai and Estraven. The two find a profound understanding
in the story before and after Estraven’s death, which is a powerful - if sad - reminder
that we can come together as one even if we belong to distant worlds and that wars waged
against what is different are not necessary.

What were the common characteristics of initial encounters between Europeans and Native Americans?

The most important things that were common to most initial
contacts between Native Americans and Europeans was a certain amount of bewilderment on
the part of the Native Americans and a certain sense of arrogance and entitlement on the
part of the Europeans.

Most Native Americans did not know
exactly what to make of the Europeans.  They did not have any experience with people who
were physically so unlike them and had such strange cultures.  The Europeans' advanced
technology added to the difficulty that the Native Americans had in understanding
them.

The Europeans, on the other hand, had none of these
uncertainties.  They were well aware that people who were different than them (Africans,
Asians) existed.  They had the technological superiority.  These things made them much
more sure of themselves.  In addition, these factors and others (like Christianity) gave
them a sense that they were better than the Native Americans and were entitled to act as
if they had a right to dominate those people.

These were
the factors that were common to most initial encounters between Native Americans and
Europeans.

On page 163 of The Giver, why did things "fall apart"?

It is always problematic using page numbers as depending
on the edition of the book they may be different. In future, please reference particular
events by refering to specific chapters. From your question, I am guessing that you are
talking about the events of Chapter Twenty-One, in which Jonas is forced to swiftly
leave the community which has been his home all of his life due to the announcement made
by his father that Gabe is going to be released the very next day due to his lack of
progress and development. Let us remember that Jonas has just discovered the true nature
of being "released" thanks to the video that the Giver showed him of his father
releasing the twins before. In spite of his plans to slowly work on changing the
community from within, this forces the hand of Jonas and he is forced to run away from
the community with Gabriel in order to save his life.

Describe Arms and The Man as a modern play?Describe broadly please

Arms and the Man can be described as
a modern play, even though it was first produced in 1894 (and followed the Naturalistic
characteristics Shaw used in writing), by looking at the themes focused upon in the
play.

One theme highlighted in the play is the romanticism
of love. regardless of what era you live in, romantic love is always prevalent. Many
people have been charged with falling for the wrong person. This idea has traversed
time.

Another theme which could be recognized as a modern
theme is class discrimination. As forward thinking as ones society believes it to be,
class discrimination is still prevalent. It seems that people have always, and will
always, look down on those they deem below them.

Finally,
the theme of idealism verses realism has been a topic upon the minds of even the
greatest people for centuries. Literary and artistic movements have developed around
these ideals and still bring about great conversations.

How does Lady Macbeth persuade her husband to go through with the plan in Macbeth?

Lady Macbeth, in Shakespeare's
Macbeth, is able to persuade her husband to go through with the
plan to murder Duncan by insulting his masculinity.

Lady
Macbeth states that her husband is a coward, "and live a coward in thine own esteem". 
She does not hold anything back when belittling him. She knows that by doing this she
will be able to get Macbeth to do anything that she believes needs to be
done.

She holds the prophecy of his throne to be true. Once
she is tempted by the hope of the crown, she insures that she will do anything that
needs to be done to insure that the prophecy will come true. By her husband gaining the
crown, she gains the crown as well.

In a conversation
between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, Lady Macbeth goads him into thinking that only through
his murder of Duncan will he be considered a man to
her:

When you
durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would be so
much more the man.

During
this period, men were admired and held up based upon their manhood. To question ones
manhood, as Lady Macbeth does, is simply saying that the man is worthless- similar to
that of a woman during the time. Lady Macbeth knows that it is important to be seen as a
powerful and noble man- this is the way that she is able to persuade Macbeth to fulfill
his destiny and claim the crown.

Social networking as a marketing tool to the consumers.literature review needed please.social networking marketing tool consumers web 2.o

Skampani,

I believe that you
are off to a good start, however, I believe your paragraph should include both pros and
cons of the social network and its ablility to enhance marketing. Some example that come
to mind for the pros are as follows: 1. social networking reached millions of people
with diverse cultures, educations and backgrounds daily. 2. Buisness men and woman can
grow their business network/contacts much quicker, as long as they are able to maintain
a professional relationship with their contacts. 3. The job market would also continue
to grow 4. Will allow a place to hold virtual meetings with multiple clients at one
setting.

Some examples of the cons are as follows: 1. Cyber
crimes are a risk when working with social networks 2. There is not a guarantee by the
social network 3.Also, online scams are always a cause of
concern.

I hope this has helped and you are able to
strengthen your work.

How is rationalism versus superstition presented in the story ?Charles Dickens's "The Signal-Man"

An interesting character, the signalman is a combination
of  diligence and superstition. While he calls to the narrator, the narrator believes
him first to be "a spirit."  The signalman returns the dubious look of the narrator,
wondering if he has seen the narrator before, and marveling at what he has heard. Later,
after they become friendly, the signalman asks the narrator if
he

"had no
feeling that they [the narrator's words] were conveyed to you in a supernatural
way?"

The next night, the
signalman confides to the narrator that the previous night he had mistaken the narrator
for "that someone else."  This person puts his left arm across the face and waves
violently with the right arm.  He has heard this man cry, too.  But, the empirical
narrator explains this vision to the signalman,

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...I showed him how that this figure must be a
deception of his sense of sight; and how that figures, originating in diseas ofthe
delicate nerves that minister to the functions of the eye, were know to have often
trouble patients,...and even proved it by experiments upon
themselves.

The narrator
explains the "imaginative cry" as voices in the unnatural valley that play upon the
"wild harp" of the telegraph wires.  The signalman tells the narrator that he has not
finished his tale:

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Within six hours after the Appearance, the
memorable accident on this Line happened, and within ten hours the dead and woounded
were brought along through the tunnel over the spot where the figure had
stood.

Further, he informs
the narrator that this incident occurred about a year ago.  But, six or seven
months  have passed, and one morning in the predawn, he has seen the spectre again. And,
again, the empirical narrator asks him questions.  The signalman says that the ghost
left.

For everything that the signalman says, the narrator
offers a logical explanation.  However, the signalman tells the narrator that he noticed
someone waving hands, and he later learned that a young lady had died in one of the
compartments.  After a week, the spectre returned and resumed his calling out to "Look
out! Look out!"  Convinced of his error, the narrator says that the bell has not rung,
but the man insists that the bell's ring is "a strang
vibration."

After the narrator makes the man look out the
door for the spectre, who is not there, the signal-man asks, "What is the danger?  Where
is the danger?" feeling "some dreadful calamity."  The narrator departs the nervous
signalman, sensing something eerie himself.  Then, the narrator believes that he will
ask a wise practioner about him. 

The next evening, the
narrator takes a stroll, but is taken aback when he sees
the

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"appearance of a man, with his left sleeve across
his eyes passionately waving his right
arm."

Somehow, the signalman
had not heard the train and has been killed. The strange supernatural warnings were for
the signalman.  Most shaken by the death of his new friend and the nature of the
accident as exactly as described by the signalman, the narrator abandons his
rational thought when he is told by the engineer that he hears the words that the
signalman has mentioned as well as the words which the narrator has "attached, and that
only in my own mind, to the gesticulation he had
imitated."

Somehow, these supernatural incidents have
happened.  With the train's having disturbed nature with the carving of the hill,
supernatural forces have been unleashed and set in motion, too strong to be
controlled.

What does Aunt Alexandra contribute to the Finch family in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Scout's Aunt Alexandra is the sister of Atticus and wife
of Jimmy Hancock; Alexandra and Jimmy live at the old homestead at Finch's Landing, 25
miles west of Maycomb. Alexandra and Jimmy aren't the happiest of couples, and they seem
to prefer as much distance apart as possible. Alexandra's own parenting skills are
questionable, having produced a son, Henry, "who left home as soon as was humanly
possible;" her grandson, Francis, "was the most boring child I ever met," according to
Scout. Nevertheless, Alexandra decided that Atticus' children needed a motherly touch,
and she invited herself to come and stay with Atticus in Maycomb at the onset of the Tom
Robinson trial.

After losing her battle with Atticus to rid
the household of Calpurnia, Alexandra settled down

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... and life resumed its daily pace. Aunt
Alexandra seemed as if she had always lived with us... she had river-boat,
boarding-school manners... she was an incurable gossip... She was never bored, and given
the slightest chance, she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange,
caution, advise and
warn.

Alexandra believed that
Atticus' home needed a feminine touch, and that both children were in want of a mother
figure. She believed that Scout specifically was in need of ladylike qualities, and
Alexandra did her best to see that Scout was converted from tomboy to little lady.
Alexandra refused to allow Scout to invite Walter Cunningham Jr. to visit, telling Scout
that "he--is--trash!" and not worthy of socializing with a Finch. She worried about the
repercussions of Atticus defending Tom, and she feared that the family might be in
danger after the threats made by Bob Ewell.

But by the end
of the novel, Alexandra seems to have found some acceptance from Scout and Jem. Scout
admires her ladylike skills at the missionary tea, and Alexandra blames herself for
Bob's attack on the children, since she decided not to escort them to the Halloween
pageant. In the final chapters, she lovingly tends to Jem's injuries, and in a rare
example of giving in to Scout's tomboyish tendencies,
she

...
brought me my overalls. "Put these on, darling," she said, handing me the garments she
most despised.

In 1984, according to chapter 3 of Goldstein's book, why is war peace?

You can find the answer to this question in book 2,
chapter 9. Essentially, continuous war keeps the citizenry equally dependent on the
government for their own rations of goods. Likewise, war means the people are united in
purpose against an enemy other than the government and their is no room for large-scale
revolt. A couple of further reasons that war is peace are listed below as direct quotes
from the book:

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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials
which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long
run, too intelligent.

If
everyone is dumb, they will live without planned purpose to revolt. This will mean
peace.

Another way that war is peace must be deduced by the
reader. By reading chapter 3 of Goldstein's book, readers learn that the three
superpowers go to significant lengths to put on a pretend war to keep the people
believing. This great collaborated effort must take much time and tact to orchestrate.
Working together so much on a common purpose quite frankly prevents the need for real
war.

The war,
therefore, if we judge by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture...
though it is unreal it is not
meaningless.

Goldstein admits
that war is fake.

One good quote that directly states why
war is peace is actually in chapter 1 of Goldstein's
book:

...
continuous warfare ... is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary
pitch.

This points out that
the public grows in their allegiance and degree of happiness or peace as long as there
is war.

What is Dave thinking when he throws his mother's ashes in the lake in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?

This scene, which takes place in the second to last
chapter of the book, is one of the most poignant of the entire memoir.  The book opens
with the death of Eggers' parents and his tone, seemingly throughout, is one of detached
maturity, dry humor, and dilligence.  Knowing he is responsible for taking care of his
siblings, Eggers writes with the strength and courage he probably hopes to embody, and
it is clear that he is aware he only pretending to be an
adult.

When he returns to Lake Michigan to scatter his
mother's ashes, it is almost as if he is finally admitting all of the feelings he has
felt all along, but because he has been the "man in charge," he's been hiding them.  His
thoughts, a reflection of his emotions, are raw, and full of anger, bitterness, and
guilt.  Yet, amidst these, he also has a rational sense of duty and
acceptance.

His anger and bitterness (at himself, at the
situation) is evidenced by his recurring use of the f-word in a non-humorous way.  He's
surprised by how light the ashes are when he begins to throw.  He gets angry at himself
for dropping some, as if this is a reflection of his inability to do anything right. 
This subsequently speaks the message, "Why was I put in charge? 
You should have known I couldn't really handle it."  Moments of humor also sprinkle this
scene ("I'm stepping on them!  Of course I am...how fitting!  How expected,
a**hole!") to show that Eggers is attempting to avoid becoming overly
emotional or taking things too seriously.

Though the scene
is real-time was probably short lived, Eggers has so many different things running
through his mind, it seems stretched out.  He wonders if this moment is "beautiful and
noble and right, or small and disgusting."  Then, as if he realizes how introspective
he's being, he begins throwing the ashes (and now small pebbles) faster, as if to simply
get the job done and not make such a big deal out of it.

In
short, the entire experience is completely overwhelming, and as a glimpse into the mind
of someone experiencing hundreds of emotions all at once, it seems Eggers provides every
detail possible.  The reader can't help but respond with sadness, respect, and even a
little laughter.

Can someone provide an analysis of "The Plunge," one of Ezra Pound's most famous poems?

Ezra Pound’s poem “The Plunge” has been the subject of
commentary by a number of analysts. Michael Alexander, for instance, in his book The
Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound, argues that the poem reflects Pound’s own eager
yearning for new experiences (p. 79).

K. K. Ruthven, in A
Guide to Ezra Pound’s Personae, also thinks the poem reflects an important aspect of
Pound’s own life. He identifies the “this” of line 6 as the “London literary world,” and
he identifies the “you” of line 9 as perhaps Dorothy Shakespear, Pound’s future wife. He
suggests that lines 11-13 refer to winter in London, and he notes, concerning the
passage beginning at line 16, that Pound waited until 1921 before taking advantage of
the better weather of Paris (p. 197).

The poem itself
begins with its own plunge in medias res (into the midst of
things):

I
would bathe myself in strangeness:

These comforts heaped
upon me, smother me!

The word
“bathe” implies total immersion, cleansing, a kind of baptism into “strangeness.”
Ironically, familiar “comforts” seem stifling, almost life-threatening in the sense that
they may kill the speaker’s spirit. While most people seek “comforts,” especially of the
material sort, this speaker finds them smothering, and the fact that the first sentence
of the poem ends with an exclamation marks already suggests the depth of this speaker’s
passions.

The next line continues to emphasize a sense of
the paradoxical.  Just as the comforts were smothering, so now “the new” is associated
with burning and scalding feelings in the speaker, but these feelings are associated not
with pain but with intensity and deep desire. The water imagery of line 1 is
counterpointed with the fire imagery of line 3.  The key word “new” is doubly emphasized
in lines 3-4, while the word “Places” in line 5 is strongly emphasized by its isolation
and by yet another exclamation mark.  This poem shows the Romantic side of Pound – the
side that can create a speaker who seems full of passion and enthusiasm and who presents
that speaker without irony or implied sarcasm.

In the
second stanza, the speaker addresses another person – an unnamed “you” – but that
person, presumably a woman, is imagined mainly in relation to the speaker. Her sudden
presence in the poem is stressed by the brevity of the line (9) in which she first
appears (and also by the way that “you” echoes “new”). Lines 11-13 suggest that the
speaker has grown to hate the life of large cities in particular, with their
combinations of unattractive solidity (“walls . . . stones”) and lack of cleanness and
clarity (“mire, mist, . . . fog”). (Note how “mire” contrasts with the opening image of
being cleansed.)

The speaker claims that he loves and
desires the “you” more, even, than newness, but he suggests that he cannot properly
enjoy or appreciate her in their current environment.  He wants her to flow over him
like water (14), thus echoing the opening line, just as lines 17-18 remind us of the
earlier references to intense fire. He wants a new life associated with the beauties of
nature (16), and the poem ends with a characteristic paradox: he seeks appealingly
“Alien people” (20) because he is now thoroughly alienated from his present life and
present location. The freedom the speaker desires is symbolized by the free structure
and rhythms and unregimented rhymes of the poem.

What was the issues of the Lascaux Caves (Paleolithic)?

The issue has been the preservation of over 2,000 works of
paleolithic art. The cave itself was discovered by teenagers in 1940 and thereafter was
opened as a public exhibit; however the roughly 1200 visitors per day created an immense
accumulation of carbon dioxide which damaged the figures and led to the closing of the
cave. Aside from carbon dioxide, an air conditioning system was added to the caves which
changed the degree of humidity present which together with light emitted by the lighting
system encouraged the growth of black mold. This led to closing of the caves and
attempts to remove the mold; unfortunately new forms of mold have appeared and the
process of removing it is tedious and time consuming. There is no guarantee that the
fungi can be safely and completely removed.

Explain the significance of Napoleon's closing toast in Animal Farm.

The idea of "the toast" comes in the last chapter of
Orwell's work. Having consolidated all of the power on the farm, ensuring complete
control over the animals, and negotiating agreements with the humans in the neighboring
farms, Napoleon and the Pigs host their human guests with a celebratory dinner at the
farm.  The other animals watch, partly in confusion, partly with disillusion.  At the
end of the dinner, Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood stood up and offered a toast to what Animal
Farm means to him:

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They [the humans] had been nervous about the
effect upon their own nimals, or evern theur human employees.  But all such doubts were
now dispelled.  Today he and his friends had visited Animal Farm and inspected every
inch of it with their own eyes, and what did they find?  Not only the most up- to-date
methods, but a discipline and an orderliness which should be an example fto all farmers
everywhere.

Pilkington ends
his homage to Animal Farm with a toast that hails its
"prosperity."

His dream realized, Napoleon offers his toast
which praises the ongoing relationship of control and exploitation shared by his farm
and the neighboring human farms.  The only difference or "criticism" he had with
Pilkington's speech is that Napoleon uses his toast to rename the farm.  The name
"Animal Farm" was adopted when the animals ran Mr. Jones and the other humans off of the
farm.  Now, with the pigs' control unrivaled, Napoleon offers his closing to his
toast:

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'Gentlemen,' concluded Napoleon. "I will give
you the same toast as before, but in a different form.  Fill your glasses to the brim. 
Gentlemen, here is my toast:  To the prosperity of The Manor
Farm.'

The irony here is that
the name "The Manor Farm" was exactly the same name that Mr. Jones had used for the farm
prior to the animals' overtaking it.  With the celebration that followed, the animals
watching from outside realize after Napoleon's toast that they could not tell the
difference between animal and human in the room.  They all looked the same, as they all
had the look of power.  In the end, Napoloeon's "same toast as before, but in a
different form" is symbolic because it reflects how little has changed for the animals. 
Jones' exploitation has been replaced by Napoleon.  The animals being overworked by the
humans are now being overworked by the Pigs.  In the end, the name of the farm has gone
back to what it was.  In the words of The Who, "Meet the new boss/ Same as the old
boss."  The ending toast helps to bring out this idea that political control comes in
all different forms and those who are in  the position of power have only one primary
objective which is to maintain it.

What religious imagery in Lord of the Flies shows a fall from grace, a savior, and redemption?

Whenever you're talking religion in Lord of the Flies,
you're talking about Simon. And the key chapter for religious imagery is the one in
which he climbs the mountain to discover that the beast is in fact just a dead
parachutist, shot down in the war raging back in the real
world.

The parachutist himself represents a fall from grace
(as perhaps, do the boys themselves, falling in a crashed plane onto the island).
Golding deliberately moves, at the end of Chapter 5, from the wailing littluns to the
parachutist's descent: civilisation on the island has very clearly descended towards
savagery. Here's the parachutist, described just after the littluns have
cried:

There
was a sudden bright explosion and a corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again
and stars. There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a
parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. The changing winds of various
altitudes took the figure where they
would.

This figure terrifies
the boys, and Simon, of course, is their saviour - or he would be, if they didn't kill
him (sound Christ-like? It's supposed to). Simon's knowledge of the parachutist would
save the boys from fear; but they kill him out of fear, thinking he's the beast. And as
he dies, he's uttering the truth - which, ironically, could be both a description of the
parachutist and a reference to Christ's crucifixion in the
Bible:

Simon
was crying out something about a dead man on a
hill.

Simon, the redeemer, is
himself redeemed by nature once his attempted redemption has failed. In a beautiful
description, Golding has the dead body of the boy taken back into the bosom of nature -
a kind of redemptive calm after the horror of his
death:

The
water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his
cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble. The strange,
attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapours, busied themselves round
his head. The body lifted a fraction of an inch from the sand and a bubble of air
escaped from the mouth with a wet plop. Then it turned gently in the
water.

Notice, of course, the
bright creatures around Simon's head. They'd look a bit like...  a
halo.

In "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," please give me the description of the knights of unfortunate conditions.

I am not entirely sure whether I understand your question
correctly. By asking about the "knights of unfortunate conditions," are you refering to
the other knights that the knight who tells us about his experience with the lady dreams
about? These figures are seen by the knight as he falls asleep with his lady, and
obviously there appearance foreshadows the impact that his love for the lady will have
on him and also gives the reader an important warning about the dangers of being taken
in and deceived by a femme fatale figure. Note how these figures are described in the
poem:

I saw
pale kings, and princes too,

Pale warriors, death-pale were
they all:

They cried--"La Belle Dame sans
Merci

Hath thee in
thrall!"

I saw their starved lips in the
gloam

With horrid warning gaped
wide,

And I awoke, and found me
here

On the cold hill
side.

Note the way that these
figures are described as being "pale" and "death-pale," which should make us think of
the way that the knight of the poem is described in the first stanza as "Alone and
palely loitering." Not too the way that "their starved lips" are pictured as another
sign of the distraction that they suffer. They are so focussed on love that it appears
they have little appetite and are slowly wasting away. In spite of this timely warning,
the knight has become yet another victim to La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and is suffering
in the same way as a result from the sickness of unrequited love, as so many men have
done before him.

In "The Road Not Taken," did Robert Frost choose the easy, more commonly traveled road or the more difficult road with less wear?

In "The Road Not Taken," I believe the speaker of the poem
took the more difficult road. He took the road less traveled by. This means he took the
road with less people; therefore, his journey had to be more lonely. He took the road
that the majority of people avoid.

In the road less traveld
by, there would be more bumps in the road and more brush and undergrowth. There would be
more obstacles as far as trees and nature's natural
growth.

In my classes, I teach my students that the speaker
took the less traveled road. This meant he took the road which requires much more
studying. The majority took the road I call the "party" road. Students can choose the
"party" road and end up without a degree. It is easy to hang out with friends and party
and have a good time. It is more difficult to choose isolation that comes with hours of
studying.

Truly, the less traveled road requires commitment
to the journey of life called endurance. The road that requires great commitment is
often a lonely road. No one likes to commit and persevere through hard work and
sacrifice.

I imagine the speaker of the less traveled road
felt the pains of loneliness and isolation. In the end, it will be worth all the
loneliness and hours of perseverance. In the end, it made all the difference for the
speaker, as it will for anyone who chooses the tougher
road:

Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled
by,
And that has made all the
difference.

If you were to write an essay on what freedom of speech means to you, what would be your three main points?

If I were to write such an essay, my main point would be
that freedom of speech does not mean as much to me as it
should.

My first point would be that many people all over
the world do not have much, if any, freedom of speech.  I might mention China, which has
improved greatly in many ways, but where people are still arrested (or worse) for
criticizing the government.

My second point would be that
we in the US (or I, at least) take freedom of speech for granted.  I would point out how
little anyone's free speech has been curtailed in this country.  I might mention that
there have been things like the Red Scare/McCarthy Era in the '50s but that such things
have been rare and have really not touched that many people when they have happened. 
Even in the worst of times, Americans have been free to criticize their government and
to say almost whatever they want.  In the best of times, there are essentially no
limits.

My final point would be my main point.  I would say
that free speech should mean more to me.  I should appreciate it more because free
speech is the basis of a free society.  I should appreciate it more because so many
people do not have it rather than taking it for granted because it has been so prevalent
in the United States.

Please provide a description of any one of the main characters (Jem, Scout, Dill, Calpurnia, etc.) in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, the reader is presented with a description of Dill in Chapter
One, which comes from conversation between Jem and Dill when the children first meet,
and through observations in the voice of Scout, the book's
narrator.

One day the children hear something in Miss
Rachel's garden and go to investigate—Miss Rachel's dog is pregnant and they think that
perhaps it is a puppy. Not an animal at all...

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...instead we found someone sitting looking at
us. Sitting down, he wasn't much higher than the
collards.

Dill introduces
himself as Charles Baker Harris. Jem, not one to welcome a new friendship too easily, is
agressive and asks this "stranger" how old he is—the insult comes from his
question/answer in terms of years: "four-and-a-half?" The discussion is based on Dill's
announcement that he can read, and when Jem finds out that Dill is seven, he starts
"slinging a tall tale," specifically that it's not a surprise to
him that Dill should read at seven
because...

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Scout yonder's been reading' ever since she was
born...

And
then...

You
look right puny goin' on
seven.

Dill is not put
off:

I'm little but I'm
old.

This is a fair statement
for Dill is something of an "old soul." Jem continues to "test" Dill, telling him that
his name is longer than he is, but Dill stands up for himself, saying that Jem's name
isn't much better ("Jeremy Atticus Finch"), and then he gives the Finch children his
nickname: Dill.

Dill comes under the fench into their yard
and he begins to share some of his background: where he's from, details about his
family, but most importantly for Jem, that he's been to the
"picture show" (movies) often. This is a novelty in Maycomb where the only movies that
have ever been shown to Jem's knowledge are the "Jesus ones." The deal is sealed when
Dill admits that he has seen
Dracula.

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Dill had seen Dracula, a
revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of
respect.

As Dill tells them
the movie version of the vampire story, Scout studies the young
boy:

Dill was
a curiosity. He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow
white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over
him. As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was
sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his
forehead.

Soon, Jem's tells
Scout to stop pestering Dill for information:

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...a sure sign that Dill had been studied and
found acceptable.

(Research
notes that the character of Dill was fashioned after the idiosyncratic writer Truman
Capote, who was a childhood and, later, lifelong friend of Harper
Lee.)*

Perhaps the best thing about Dill is his wonderful
imagination, to which Jem is immediately drawn.  Whereas things had been boring and
repetitive with Scout always playing second to Jem's leading roles, Dill provides a new
depth to their vivid role-playing. It is Dill who becomes obsessed to learn more about
Boo Radley: to get him to come out so they can see him, talk with him, and learn more
about him.

It is safe to say that with Dill Harris, good
things do come in small
packages!

*Additional
Source:

http://www.celsius1414.com/2010/05/05/harper-lee-and-truman-capote/

Is there any similarity between Cassio and Roderigo in Othello?

I would argue that the similarity between these two
characters, who at first glance seem to be profoundly different, lies in their relation
to other characters in the play, most importantly to Iago and
Desdemona.

Clearly what seems to link these two characters
is the way that both are used and manipulated by Iago for his own ends. We see Roderigo
being manipulated in this way by Iago in Act I scene 1 as Iago gets him to alert
Brabantio to his daughter's elopement with Othello. Similarly, in Act II scene 3, we see
Iago tempting Cassio to get drunk so that he can provoke an argument between Cassio and
Roderigo, and get Cassio into trouble. Both characters are therefore alike in the way
that they are used by Iago for his own nefarious
purposes.

In addition, there does seem to be a similarity
in the way that both characters are in love or at least attracted by Desdemona. Roderigo
makes no secret of his love for Brabantio's daughter, and his jealousy is something that
is easily exploited by Othello. We never have a definite answer as to whether Cassio is
in love with Desdemona, but it is certainly his attraction and proximity to her that is
exploited, again by Iago, to bring about his revenge.

discuss dr fautus as a tragedy.

Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus can be read as a
Christian tragedy which dramatizes the conflicts of free will and
pre-destination.

Being written during the time of
Rennaisance in the seventeenth century, Marlowe presents Faustus as an "Every man
figure". And

offers cultural critique of that time by
thematising the topical issues faced by the pan-European society. The play
is structurally based 

on the Morality Play
formula.Pyschomachia is a strong feature of it as Faustus spends the play in a state of
ambiguity between repentance 

and despair. However, unlike
the other male protagonists, Faustus makes a self conciouss choice rather than his
action being a result of 

error in judgement. This makes
him a rennaisance over-reacher just like
'Icarus".

Throughout the play we see him as an ambitious
man who goes beyond his limits in order to satisfy his erge of knowledge. Thus,
it

is the tragic flaw of ' Hubris' (excessive pride) which
leads to the blindness of his limitation leading to his
self-destruction.

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As mentioned earlier, Faustus is consistently
presented as an every-man character. Neither wholly good, nor wholly bad both brilliant
and arrogant. 

Learned and foolish and consumed
with intellectual curiosity,The end of the Faustus is tragic being a process of
Catharsis for the audience (element

of pity and fear) as
the journey ends in damnation. But the essential message of the play upholds a
protestant belief : People damn themselves through 

their
own action but they can repent which is kept pending by
Faustus. 

What is the summary of Act I of The Miracle Worker?

As the play opens, the parents of Helen Keller stand
looking at her in her crib with a doctor. They discuss the illness that Helen has just
recovered from and Kate discovers that because of the illness Helen is unable to see or
hear. The second scene, through Aunt Ev and James, Helen's brother, tells us that five
and a half years have gone by since the first since, which have resulted in Helen
becoming a difficult child to handle because denying her anything causes her to engage
in trantrums. Helen and her husband argue about the value of trying any more attempts,
with the Captain believing it would be a waste of money, but Helen believes that it is
worth trying a governess called Annie Sullivan.

The next
scene switches to Boston and to Annie Sullivan as she prepares to leave the Perkins
Institute for the Blind, where she herself was a patient and moved from blindness to
partial vision. We are presented to her as a character and the way that she is young and
has a sense of humour but also haunted by the loss of her young brother, Jimmie, from
whom she was separated at an orphanage. Annie is met at the station in Alabama by Kate
and James. Kate is worried that Annie is too young, but Annie assures her she has lots
of energy and also she has the experience of being blind. Kate and Annie begin to like
each other.

As Annie meets Helen, she teaches her how to
hand-spell "doll" and "cake" and then is hit by Helen and locked in. Annie has to be let
out by a ladder brought to her window. Annie finds Helen next to the well, her favourite
place, and watches as Helen, unaware of Annie's presence, removes the key to the room
that she locked from her mouth and throws it down the well. Annie smiles, and the stage
directions tell us that she does this with "great respect, humour, and acceptance of
challenge," and goes back into the house, leaving Helen by herself as Act I
ends.

What is the definition of employee compensation?

Employee compensation is a broad term that defines
payments and rewards given to workers in order to persuade them to keep working for a
company. Compensation is not just about regular rewards for work done but also attempts
made by employers to retain employees. It goes beyond salary and transcends this
boundary to include benefits and other incentives. Examples of such are salaries, wages
and bonus payments.

Organizations put in place
schemes that ensure their employees are not lured by the competition. These schemes
include insurance schemes, retirement benefits and ownership of company stocks.
Employees do not come cheap and employers must be prepared to dig deeper into their
pockets to finance their work force. Managers are tasked with determining the value of
each employee against the price tag placed by the
company.

Employee benefits transform to value
assigned and need not necessarily be in cash. Some forms of compensation are actually
rights and not benefits. Take for instance workman’s compensation. This is a federal
requirement for every employer to uphold. It is assumed that every employee has to be
compensated for the work they do or services provided to an organization. In the same
breath, loss of income should be
compensated.

Employee compensation can also be
looked at as either a tangible benefit or intangible. Good examples of tangible benefits
include insurance, holiday packages, maternity leaves, pension, bonuses and share of
profits. Intangible compensation is in form of promotions, letters of appreciation and
being provided with nice looking
offices.

Compensation may also be from the
employee. In most cases, benefits flow from the employer to employee. However, in some
form of departure from the norm, employees may be compelled to part pay for their
benefits. Prominent examples are medical covers for instance. Here the employee may be
asked to part pay for things like consultation fees or other costs of
treatment.

Firms are supposed to determine what salary
scales to pay for their respective positions. This will be dependent on qualifications,
nature of work involved and years of experience a particular employee has. These will
then be adjusted periodically based on factors such as inflation and economic changes
that push up costs of living. Another factor that influences salary scales is the
pressure from other players in the same
sector.

Employee compensation is also pegged
against regulations imposed by the government. Contractual obligations in this respect
must be honored lest the organization finds itself facing costly legal suits. Industrial
pressure from trade unions needs to be paid attention to. These unions represent huge
masses and their voice cannot be
ignored.

Organizations employ professionals to
assist with compensation matters. Human resource managers or consultants form part of
the management and they are charged with drafting and implementing compensation plans by
determining salaries and other employee benefits. It is important that employees are
kept motivated during their working life in a company as this ensures they perform well
to match the compensation they receive from the organization.

What are some passages or quotes from the book, The Old Man and the Sea, that show how Santiago has dignity?

I would argue that one of the most powerful moments in
this novella which shows Santiago's dignity in the face of failure is when he returns to
port after he has lost his catch to the sharks, and yet manages to shoulder the mast and
take it back home, in spite of his feelings of complete exhaustion and tiredness and
defeat. Consider how he is described as he steps on land once
again:

He
unstepped the mast and furled the sail and tied it. Then he shouldered the mast and
started to climb. It was then that he knew the depth of his tiredness. He stopped for a
moment and looked back and saw in the reflection from the street light the great tail of
the fish standing up well behind the skiff's stern. He saw the white naked line of his
backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakedness
between.

Note the way that
the skeleton of the fish is a symbol for Santiago's failure. The "nakedness" of the fish
is paralleled by the metaphorical nakedness of Santiago, as he returns, defeated.
However, he still resolutely carries his mast back to his shack, in spite of his
exhaustion and the weight of the mast, showing tremendous dignity in the face of his
suffering and failure.

What was the Marshall Plan?

The Marshall Plan is also called the European Recovery
Plan. It was enacted by the US in 1947 as a way to help rebuild Europe after World War
II. The genius behind the plan was George Marshall, who was at the time the US Secretary
of State. William Clayton and George Kennan are also credited with writing the majority
of the Marshall Plan.

Though part of the Marshall Plan was
meant to help the badly damaged Europe recover from WWII, the other part of the Marshall
Plan was meant to prevent communism from gaining a stronghold in war torn countries.
Certain countries either refused aid or received very little aid. Japan, for example,
did not receive aid. Aid was offered to the USSR but was
refused.

West Germany received some aid under the Marshall
Plan. The UK and France received the most aid, over 200 million each. Other countries
receiving funds for reconstruction were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Iceland,
Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. For the most
part these countries represented the allied relationships formed during WWII. However,
some countries, like Italy, were part of the Axis forces during the
war.

In "Beowulf", what was the importance of the mail shirt in Anglo Saxon culture?

The Anglo-Saxons were known for being seafarers.  This
being said, during their long voyages across the sea, their main reason for traveling
was to claim other lands for themselves. During the 5th and 6th centuries, the Anglos
raided England.

The mail shirt provided the Anglo Saxons
with the protection they needed from the hand-to-hand combat which took place when they
were raiding and pillaging in order to take over foreign
lands.

In Beowulf, given both tribes
(the Geats and the Danes) were part of the Anglo Saxon culture, they were seafarers and
warriors. Therefore, when facing battles at home, or abroad, they would wear the mail
shirts as part of their protection against others in
battle.

The mail shirts were an important part of their
culture provided it offered both protection against foes and could be looked at as a
symbol of their warrior spirit.

Explain the impact of rice cultivation on South Carolina.

In the earliest days of the Carolina colony (South
Carolina split off from North Carolina in 1712), rice was the engine of the colonial
economy.  Rice also helped to make the colony into a slave
society.

Rice became the most important export crop for
Carolina (mostly in the part that would become South Carolina) in the late 1600s.  Rice
was a food that had been cultivated in Africa for a long time.  As rice became important
to Carolina's economy, more and more slaves were brought over.  Slaves who knew how to
grow rice were particularly prized.  The owners of the rice plantations became the
elites of the colony.

Rice, then, caused South Carolina to
become a plantation society with planter elites on the top and slaves at the very bottom
of the social hierarchy.

What is Walter's marriage like in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?How are the marriage roles different then to todays society?

The marriage is one where Walter is a defeated,
emasculated man, used and scorned by his wife. Mitty, clearly unable to be part of the
war effort, is too old, incapacitated or mentally unsuitable to fight for his country.
His heroism is exerienced only in his dreams, and it is often his wife who punctures
them-

The Old
Man'll get us through," they said to one another. "The Old Man ain't afraid of hell!" .
. .

"Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs.
Mitty. "What are you driving so fast for?"

"Hmm?" said
Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked
astonishment.

He is chastised
for driving at a speed she deems appropriate. Then he is questioned and bullied like a
child to wear his driving gloves-

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"Why don't you wear your gloves? Have you lost
your gloves?"

Mitty continues
on his mundane errands punctuated with heroic dreams. He is reprimanded again by his
wife when she cannot see him in the hotel they agreed to meet at. He challenges her
attack for once-

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'I was thinking," said Walter Mitty. "Does it
ever occur to you that I am sometimes
thinking?"

His challenge is
however thwarted by her cold threat of medical
intervention-

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She looked at him. "I'm going to take your
temperature when I get you home," she
said.

Walter Mitty is so
dominated by his wife that the last daydream he has in the story is facing a firing
squad, an image he deems better than facing his wife
-

...he faced
the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the
Undefeated, inscrutable to the
last.