"Atticus got up and walked across the porch into the shadows and his youthful step had returned.” What caused this change in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Halloween night had been a rough one for Atticus. He was
already tired from spending a week in Montgomery, and he decided to skip the school
pageant. Then he learned of the attack on his children. Atticus was frantic, concerned
about Jem's injury and his son's possible connection with Bob Ewell's death. It was one
of the few times in the novel that Atticus wasn't thinking clearly. Even though it was
Boo who brought Jem into the house, Atticus didn't initially think that Boo was
connected with the death: Atticus thought Jem had killed Bob, and it took a bit of
convincing from Sheriff Tate before he was convinced that Boo--and not Jem--had killed
Bob. Atticus then realized that Jem may have to testify in support of Boo, giving him
even more worries. But Sheriff Tate's decision to call Bob's death self-inflicted solved
the problem. Boo and Jem were off the hook, but Atticus still didn't like going along
with Tate's way of thinking. It was Scout who eased Atticus' mind, telling him that the
sheriff had made the right decision, keeping Boo from being dragged through a public
investigation.

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"Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a
mockingbird, wouldn't it?"

It
was only then that Atticus' "youthful step" returned. Jem would recover from his
injuries, Scout was okay with the sheriff's secret, and none of them had to worry about
Bob Ewell again.

What are some examples of treachery and loyalty in Shakesepeare's tragedy Othello? Please cite act and scene.

Loyalty and treachery are important themes in
Shakespeare’s Othello from the very opening words of the play. 
Thus, in the very first scene, Roderigo is already accusing Iago of a mild kind of
treachery (or at least disloyalty) by not informing him of Othello’s marriage to 
Desdemona (1.1.1-3).  Iago immediately responds by claiming his loyalty to Roderigo
(1.11.4-6). Iago feels that Othello has been treacherous to him by choosing Michal
Cassio as his [Othello’s] lieutenant rather than Iago himself (1.1.8-17). Iago feels
that he has been loyal to Othello (1.1.28-33) and thus feels all the more that he [Iago]
has been treated treacherously.  In turn, Iago plans to deal treacherously with
Othello:

O,
sir, content you;

I follow him to serve my turn upon him.
(1.1.41-42)

Iago plans to
pretend loyalty to Othello merely to plot revenge: “In following him, I follow but
myself” (1.1.58). Within a few lines, he is already proclaiming to Brabantio that the
latter has been treated treacherously by Othello, who has secretly married Brabantio’s
daughter, Desdemona, without her father’s consent:

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I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your
daughter and the Moor are [now] making the beast with two backs.
(1.1.115-17)

In other words,
Iago claims that not only has Othello been treacherous to Brabantio but that Brabantio’s
own daughter has been disloyal as well.

Later, in the
streets of Venice, Brabantio himself accuses Othello of
treachery:

O
thou foul thief, where hast thou stowed my daughter?

Damn’d
as thou art, thou hast enchanted her . . . .
(1.2.62-63)

Later still, in
the Ventian court, Brabantio once more charges Othello with treachery, claiming that
Desdemona has been

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abus’d, stol’n from me, and
corrupted

By spells and medicines brought on by mountebanks
. . . . (1.3.60-61)

When
Desdemona herself appears before the court, she professes loyalty both to her father and
to her new husband; she denies that she has acted treacherously but instead proclaims
that now her greater loyalty must be to the man she has married rather than to the man
who helped conceive her (1.3.180-89). Brabantio disdainfully accepts what has happened,
but, before leaving the court, warns Othello that Desdemona may someday treat Othello as
treacherously as Brabantio feels he himself has been
treated:

Look
to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see;

She has deceived
her father, and may thee.
(1.3.292-93)

Othello responds
to this warning by replying simply, “My life upon her faith!” (1.3.294) – words that
imply his own loyalty toward Desdemona as well as his trust in her loyalty toward him. 
Throughout the entire first act of the play, then, loyalty and treachery are crucial
themes.

Other scenes in which these themes particularly
appear include the following: 2.1.213-312; 2.3.204-49; 3.3.155-278; 3.3.330-480;
4.1.1-212; 42.31-90; 5.1.35-73; 5.2.1-83; 5.2.126-67; and 5.2.283-87.  There are, in
fact, few scenes in the play that fail to at least touch upon the themes of treachery
and loyalty.

How did John and Lorraine become friends?

John and Lorraine first met on the bus on the way to
school.  He sat down next to her which made her at first feel uncomfortable.  He almost
immediately began laughing, so she thought he was making fun of her.  His laughter was
contagious because she started laughing too and the two of them laughed together
uncontrollably.  Though they are very different, John and Lorraine are able to remain
good friends because they can keep each other laughing and can feel comfortable being
silly around each other.  This laughter is a nice antidote to cure the pain they
respectively feel from their dysfunctional families.

What is meant by puffing the cheeks ?By Ratan

In Rabindranath Tagore's "The Postmaster", the narrator
details a line in which the Postmaster tells Ratan to leave the fire be and to come in
and light his pipe. It is in this line where the phrase "with puffed out cheeks"
appears.

The reference to "puffed out cheeks" refers to the
holding of Ratan's breath to blow onto a coal so as to keep it burning so that he can
light the Postmaster's pipe. Blowing upon a coal causes the coal to stay burning after
taken from a coal pit or fire place.

Simply, "puffed out
cheeks" refers to the pyhsical protrudence of Ratan's cheeks so that he may hold in
enough air to keep the coal lit so that it does not extinguish before he is able to
light the pipe of the Postmaster.

What are the father's main character weaknesses, not only morally or religiously, in the Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson?

One would have to go beyond the actual words of the novel,
“The Swiss Family Robinson,” to see any weaknesses in the father, the main character of
the book. The way he is depicted by the author he is almost perfect; no, he is perfect.
He knows just about everything: what kind of plants and trees are on the island; what
kinds of animals live there; and last but not least, how to survive on the deserted
island. He is also the spiritual leader of the family, and is constantly giving sermons
while he’s giving out lessons on survival.

The main flaw in
the father is that he is too perfect.  He has no flaws that one can find in the book,
and that makes him a one-dimensional character, which you hardly ever find in a classic
novel.  “The Swiss Family Robinson” is a classic only because of the adventures that the
family has, not in the way that the author develops his characters, especially the
father.

How to cure a swollen gland under the chin?

A swollen "gland" under the jaw is most likely one of two
things. It could be an actual gland, since you have salivary glands called the
sublinguals located beneath your tongue. But more likely it's a lymph node. which your
have a number of in the neck and jaw area. Lymph nodes are nodules which help filter
body fluids, and they are filled with infection-fighting white blood cells. When a node
is active, it often swells.

The most common causes of
swollen lymph nodes are the common cold and strep throat. If you have a sore or scratchy
throat or a fever, you should probably have it checked out, as antibiotics may be in
order. In any case, if it goes on for more than a day or two, you should definitely see
a doctor.

One thing that will speed healing of swollen
lymph nodes and/or a swollen salivary gland is putting hot compresses on it. Another
home remedy that may help is sipping hot tea; this would be particularly helpful if it
is a salivary gland.

How does Katherine Mansfield investigate Laura's resistance to her class relations in "The Garden Party"?

A key theme of this excellent short story is that of
class, and the way that Laura begins the story at least by trying to ignore class and
pretending that it does not impact her. An important part of the beginning of the story
is when she watches the workmen construct the marquee and Laura comments on how nice the
workmen are and how they compare much more favourably to "the silly boys" with whom she
dances from her own class. Note what she thinks:

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It's all the fault, she decided, as the tall
fellow drew something on the back of an envelope. something that was to be looped up or
left to hang, of these absurd class distinctions. Well, for her part, she didn't feel
them. Not a bit, not an
atom...

She even goes as far
to imagine that she is a "work-girl" as she watches the men do their work. Of course,
this feeling of companionship with the working class brings Laura into her conflict when
she feels that the garden party must be cancelled because of the death of Mr. Scott, a
working class man living very close to the garden. When she goes to her sister Jose and
then to her mother, she is met with the inescapable reality of the way that class does
matter and that it cannot be dreamed away. Consider how her mother responds to
her:

"You are
being very absurd, Laura," she said coldly. "People like that don't expect sacrifices
from us. And it's not very sympathetic to spoil everybody's enjoyment as you're doing
now."

Class is therefore a
force that initially Laura tries to resist, but in the end is forced to acknowledge and
respond to.