Who are the characters that best illustrate the theme of loneliness and difference in Of Mice and Men?I have to write an essay on the theme of...

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw many men leave their
families when they could no longer provide for them.  They became "bindle stiffs,"
riding the railroad cars to California where they became itinerant workers on the large
corporate-owned farms.  Alienated from family and home, these disposessed men often
became paralyzed emotionally.  John Steinbeck wrote of Lennie Small, whom he created to
express this paralysis,

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"Lennie was not to represent insanity at all but
the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all
men."

Steinbeck turned to the
ideology of socialism as a solution to man's alienation.  With the motif of the
fraternity of men that socialism brings, Steinbeck has his characters seek a sense of
belonging and hope with one another. For George and Lennie, who already have each other,
it is also their dream of owning a ranch that propels them; likewise Old Candy begins to
have hope for his future when he thinks of joining in on George and Lennie's plans. 
Even the Crooks, the doubly alienated stable worker, sheds some of his despair after he
learns of the dream ranch in which he may become a
partner.

But, outside of the dream, George and Lennie are
still just itinerant workers who must be cautious in their speech and actions so that
they can keep their jobs.  Worse yet, the boss's belligerent son, Curley, acts as an
opposing force to George and Lennie's friendship and happiness by harassing Lennie until
Lennie is instructed by George to "let him have it," and he crumples Curley's hand.  Of
course, when Curley's wife tempts Lennie and he accidentally breaks her neck, the
friendship of the two men is endangered; then, after Lennie's death, George knows the
dream, too, is dead and he is so terribly alone.

Likewise,
Curley's wife, who is merely a genitive of Curley, acts also as an opposing force; this
time she is a temptress, an Eve as it were, interfering with the fraternity of the
men. She and her husband illustrate difference as they both are outside the fraternity
of the men.

Old Candy, crippled by having lost a hand,
spends his days sweeping and cleaning up the bunkhouse.  He worries that the boss and
the others may feel that he is like his old dog and has outlived his usefulness. He
tells George and Lennie that he will make a will and leave his share to the others if
they let him buy in on their dream.  When he discovers Curley's wife and George leaves,
Candy kneels by her'

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"You...tramp....You done it di'n't you? I s'pose
you're glad.  Ever'body knowed you'd mess things up.  You wasn't no good.  You ain't no
good now, you lousy tart.....I could of hoed in the garden and washed dishes for them
guys."

Crooks, isolated from
the society of his home town, is doubly alienated as he is made to live in the stable
alone because he is black.  Hostile at first at Lennie who steps into the barn, he later
tells Lennie that he feels as though he is "goin' crazy" because he has no one to talk
to or to compare things by. Crooks expresses his
terrible aloneness,

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"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.....I
tell ya a guy get too lonely sn' he get sick."  ....Sometimes he get thinkin', an' he
got nothing to tell him that's so an' what ain't so....He can't turn to some other guy
and ast him if he sees it too.  He can't tell. He got nothing to measure
by."

Alienated from their own
communities and from those they work with, the bindle stiffs of the ranch in
Of Mice and Men experience a terrible
loneliness.

How did Copernicus contribute to the Big Bang theory?

I'm not sure that Copernicus considered all of the
implications of what would later be called the "Big Bang theory," but he was the first
man to put forward the notion that the Sun was the center of the universe. In 1514,
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), a Polish astronomer, first discounted the accepted
geocentric system advanced by Ptolemy nearly 14 centuries earlier. Copernicus' idea,
known as the heliocentric system, proposed the theory that all of the planets revolved
around the Sun. More than four centuries would pass before Fred Hoyle coined the term
"Big Bang" in 1949.

The study of populations and communities is part of which branch of biology?A) Ecology B) Evolutionary biology C) Botany D) Cellular function

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What is the significance of Act 1, Scene 2 in Macbeth?

In Act 1, Scene 2 of Macbeth, there
is an example of the type of man King Duncan is. Also, there is a look at Macbeth's
character as a soldier.

King Duncan is in high praise of
Macbeth. When the sergeant shares Macbeth's bravery and skillful war-fare skills, King
Duncan not only verbally praises Macbeth, but he grants him a position of honor as Thane
of Cawdor.

King Duncan is a good man. He is a fair man. It
is evident that he treats his soldiers well if they are worthy. Likewise, he punishes
the present Thane of Cawdor for his betrayal:

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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive

Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death,(75)
And with
his former title greet
Macbeth.

Truly, we see into
the character of King Duncan as he bestows honor on Macbeth for a job well done.

Also, in Act 1, Scene 2, we see what a great warrior
Macbeth is. He is fierce on the battlefield. He is competent, skillful. Likewise, he
seems to be in honor of King Duncan as he does his job. Clearly, Macbeth's character is
puzzling. How he could turn into such a blood thirsty tyrant is a mystery.

In Act 1, Scene 5, even Lady Macbeth claims that her
husband has too much goodness in him to follow through with the murder of King Duncan:

Yet do I fear
thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human
kindness

No doubt, Act 1,
Scene 2 is an example of Macbeth as a great soldier, one worthy to be named Thane of
Cawdor. The sergeant has nothing but high praise for Macbeth in this scene.

This scene shows that a man can fall even if he is a great
warrior and strong, skillful soldier.

In his presentation
of the title Thane of Cawdor, King Duncan thinks Macbeth is
noble:

What
the traitor has lost, noble Macbeth has
won.

Because of the children's innocent perspective on the events around them, what do they reveal that the adults cannot see in To Kill a...

Most of the adults in To Kill a
Mockingbird have settled in to their lives, with years of opinionated thought
engrained in them. Adults are less likely to change, and many of their beliefs and views
about other people around them will stay with them until they die. Racist attitudes and
views about various families (such as Alexandra's Streaks and "dicta" about people, see
Chapter 13) never go away. According to
Scout,

...
the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were
utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings,
even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by
time.

Jem, Scout and Dill had
no such burden. They saw things from an innocence that only children can, without past
opinions or knowledge affecting their judgement. They hear gossip and listen to other
people's speculation, but they look at things more clearly than most adults. Although
they at first fall for the terrible rumors about Boo, they are able to see past them
once they receive his friendly gifts. They finally realize that the stories about Boo
are just rumors, and that the adults of Maycomb have misunderstood him in a disgraceful
way.

The children, like Atticus, are mostly color blind
when it comes to race, and the children feel at home at the Negro church and sitting in
the balcony of the courtroom. They have no fear of Dolphus Raymond, and they understand
him (unlike the other people in Maycomb) once they spend a few minutes getting to know
him.

What is Roylotts motive for the crimes and why does Roylotts plan backfire?

Dr. Roylett's motive was money.  His wife's will stated
that the total income they would get from her estate would be 100 pounds.  Due to the
fact that agriculture prices had fallen, the estate was now worth about 750 pounds. 
Upon marriage, according to the will, each girl would get 250 pounds.  That decrease in
his worth would "cripple him to a serious extent". 

The
reason Roylett's plan backfired was because of the genius of Sherlock Holmes.  Holmes
found the bell pull that was connected to the ventilator. The ventilator had no purpose,
opening only to the bedroom next store instead of to the outside air. He noticed that
the bed had  been fastened to the ground so that it could not be moved.  He figured
something had to crawl down that rope.  When the snake crawled down the rope, Holmes
attacked it with its cane, sending it back to through the ventilator.  It was so angry
that it attacked the first person it saw, which was Dr. Roylett.  The snake he had
chosen was the deadliest snake in India and killed within ten minutes of being the
victim being bitten. 

Please describe the main characters in The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman?

In Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book,
the central character is Bod, which is short for "Nobody." His last name is Owens, named
for the married ghost-couple that agrees to raise him.

When
he is a baby, Bod's parents and sister are murdered, but Bod has innocently wandered
away (losing his diaper on the way) from the scene of the murder before the killer can
dispose of him as well.

Mrs. Owens never had children of
her own. The spirit of Bod's dead mother appears as the murderer tries to gain entrance
into the graveyard. To Mrs. Owens she says:

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My baby! He is trying to harm my baby!...Protect
my son!

Mrs. Owens knows this
is the baby's mother—and she believes that it is her duty to care
for the boy—because she has given the boy's mother her word. With her husband's
agreement, she talks to the others in the graveyard who debate the issue of "adopting" a
living child until the Lady on the Grey tells them:

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The dead should have
charity.

Silas is the
character who is not quite a ghost, but certainly an other-worldly character. He is able
to move between the graveyard and the world of the living, so it is he who provides Bod
with food, and eventually, clothes. He is Bod's
guardian.

His
guardian could always be counted upon to explain matters clearly and lucidly and as
simply as Bod needed in order to
understand.

Another character
is Miss Lupescu. At first Bod does not like this odd and strict teacher who comes to
replace Silas when he needs to "take a trip." She is a werewolf (actually a Hound of
God), but Bod does not find this out until he finds himself in deep
trouble.

And
now, bounding toward [the ghouls] across the desert floor in the shadow of Ghulheim, a
huge grey beast, like an enormous dog.

The dog spoke, in
Miss Lupescu's voice.

When
Bod is young, he meets a girl about his age named Scarlett who often visits the
graveyard. Soon she moves away, but later comes back into Bod's life. However, she
really has no way to understand this young man who has lived a very different life than
she has.

Finally there is the killer Jack. At the beginning
of the story, it is unclear why he killed Bod's family, but what
becomes obvious before too long is that he refuses to give up. If he can find Bod, Jack
will finish what he started and kill him.

Bod grows up in
the cemetery with Freedom of the Graveyard—the power to see what ghosts see. He moves
throughout the graveyard, visits the ghosts and spirits, learns of other creatures that
also abide there, is taught to read and write, learns to love those who are like his
family, and is protected from Jack.