What are the different causes of the animals' rebellion in Animal Farm by George Orwell?

To a great extent, the animals who rebel do so out of
opposition to Napoleon's actions as leader.  There are some areas where there are
differences as to why they decide to rebel or openly question his actions, but most of
it boils down to dislike of Napoleon as leader.  For example, three hens consider it
murder that Napoleon demands that they surrender their eggs in order to fulfill the
arrangements he has made with Whymper.  In destroying their eggs, this represents an act
of rebellion.  When Napoleon wants to end Sunday meetings, some porkers disagree.  In
their dissent, another act of "rebellion" is construed.  When Boxer questions Snowball's
retelling of history in suggesting that Snowball was actually treasonous to the ends of
Animal Farm, it is seen as an act of rebellion.  This becomes broadened to any animal
that engages in a collaboration of any kind with Snowball.  The cause of these
associations are the belief that Snowball could be a better leader and possesses better
ideas than Napoleon.  In the end, the dissatisfaction with Napoleon in the fundamental
cause of rebellion, its perceived end and its actual result.  This is something that in
either form Napoleon strikes down with intensity and force, as seen in chapter seven
when Napoleon coordinates public confessions and demonstrates public execution in the
most brutal of fashion.

Ideas for Macbeth's defense lawyer's monologue?I have a monologue to write and perform for a part of assessment. I am the Defence Lawyer for...

If your audience is supposed to be an Elizabethan one;
that is, an audience that will be receptive to the powers of the preternatural
world, you may wish to take the approach that Lady Macbeth is the fourth witch and not
truly an earthly woman.  For evidence of this sisterhood with the three "weird
sisters," meaning destiny-serving witches, you can point to Banquo's remarking upon
their "beards" that prevents his believing them women.  For, like them, Lady Macbeth,
too, unsexes herself in Act I, Scene 5 after reading the letter from Macbeth.  And, it
is after her soliloquy at the beginning of the scene in which she fears Macbeth's nature
that is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness" that she transforms herself for her
evil purposes.  Indeed, these actions are witch-like, and Macbeth, who hesitates in the
evil intent to kill King Duncan. tells his
wife,

We will proceed no further in this business:

He hath honor'd me of late, and I have bought
Golden opinions from
all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,

Not cast aside so soon.
(1.5.34-38)

but, he is overpowered by
Lady Macbeth. Still, it is only under the influence of her ridicule of his masculinity
that Macbeth kills Duncan.  For, even Macbeth, who is a great warrior, is influenced by
her "undaunted mettle."

Macbeth's strong love for Lady
Macbeth affects him in another way, too.  When Lady Macbeth loses her mind and begins to
sleepwalk, trying to remove the blood spots from the stairs, Macbeth is greatly
disturbed by her behavior and absolutely devastated by her death, as displayed in
his words when he says that he is "sick at heart" (5.3_)  In his monologue of Act V,
Macbeth has lost his way completely,

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She should have died hereafter;
There
would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of
recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way
to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is
heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying
nothing.(5.5.19-30)

With such
preternatural happenings in which "fair is foul and foul is fair," even within his own
chambers, Macbeth's defence may ride upon his being a victim of phantasmagoria as, not
only the three "weird sisters," but also his wife is a witch who has directed his life
against his
control.

What do "heart", "nerve" and "sinew" (line 21) individually symbolize?

Any interpretation of a poem, a line in a poem, or an
individual word in a poem revolves around a person's individual thoughts about it.
Poetry is often analyzed as a subjective text. What this means is that the meaning of a
poem may be derived through the reader's own feelings, stereotypes, emotions evoked, and
thoughts on the subject. Therefore, any one poem may bring about multiple
interpretations. Each interpretation is, therefore, justifiable based upon a reader's
support.

This being said, the words "heart", "nerve" and
"sinew" in the poem "If" represent deeper levels of "Will which says to them: 'Hold
on!'"

The heart represents the whole of love. The nerve
(transports signals from the brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body) and sinew
(tissue which holds bone to muscle or another bone) represent pieces which deepen the
"Will." What this provides, for the reader, is an understanding that will does not only
take place in a singular place in the body. Instead, it can be ruled by many parts of
the body. The use of heart, nerve, and sinew deepen the effect by which the reader can
come to understand the whole effect of will on even the smallest, but most functionally
relevant, parts of the body.

What kind of diction dominates the text of Of Mice and Men?I don't understand how one can describe the diction of a text. John Steinbeck's Of Mice...

In order to achieve realism in his portrayal of the
characters of his novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses the
vernacular of the bindle stiffs.  That is, when George and Lennie speak, their diction
is that of uneducated men, some of whom cannot even read.  The vocabulary of these men
is very simple, often including the use of slang; their syntax, or grammatical
structures, are substandard. For instance, when George talks with Lennie after the
pugnacious Curley has stepped into the bunkhouse and demanded that Lennie speak to
him:

"I hat
that kinda b--d....I seen plenty of 'em.  Like the old guy says, Curley don't take no
changes.  He always wins....If he tangles with you, Lennie, we're gonna get the can. 
Don't make no mistake about that.  He's the boss's son....You try to keep away from him,
will you?  Don't never speak to him.  If he comes in here you move clear to the other
side of the room.  Will you do that,
Lennie?"

At yet, by employing
this diction, Steinbeck implies a certain empathy for the men.  For instance, in the
final section, as Old Candy watches George go, he looks helplessly back at Curley's
wife, and Steinbeck writes,  "gradually his sorrow and his anger grew into
words,"

"You
--- ---tramp," he said viciously "You done it, didn'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."  He sniveled, and his voice shook.  "I could of hoed in the garden and
washed dishes for them
guys."

With the diction of
Old Candy, there is a certain poignancy for the poor disabled man who is bereft of all
hope for his future. In the bindle stiffs' simple diction there is the expression of
the essential needs of the alienated men of Of Mice and Men for
whom tomorrow is only the next day.

what is the theme to the book Huckleberry Finn?I need to know 10 different quotes that develop the theme but in order to do that i need to aquire...

I think you would be hard pressed to name only one theme
in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel is much too big
and interwoven with stories and substories and plots and characters to narrow its scope
to only one theme.

One theme of the book could certainly be
the joy of freedom - the ability to live according to one's own choice of time schedule,
in the location of one's choosing, free to move on if circumstances require. Huck's and
Jim's adventures exemplify the challenges and the rewards of such a
lifestyle.

Another theme to be considered would be the
relationship between races portrayed through Huck's eyes. Huck sees and describes a
variety of attitudes toward "niggers" in the people around him, and his own attitude
evolves as he gains insights into Jim's life that he hadn't considered
previously.

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Once I said to myself it would be a thousand
times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to
be a slave,...but somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him,
but only the other kind....then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'...for
a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of
slavery

This relates to a
third possible theme, the issue of conscience and how it affects one's attitudes and
actions. Huck's conscience forced him to change his ways and act against what society in
that place and time considered the right course of action.

Judging from the conversation of the Puritan women, what are their conceptions about sin, morality, and punishment, The Scarlet Letter?

In the depiction of the women standing before the scaffold
in Chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne points to the irony
of a Puritan sect that has fled England because of religious persecution to be so
desirous of inflicting mental persecution because of religious reasons upon one of their
own community. Ironically, in this theocratic commonwealth, there is no tolerance for
sin of any kind; therefore, those who stand and wait for the punishment of Hester feel
compelled to proclaim their innocence by denouncing her, lest any of them become
suspect in  showing sympathy for her.

In their declamations
of Hester, a sanctimonious older woman suggests more violent torture, as aspect of the
early Puritans that Hawthorne found so reprehensible.  This "hard-featured dame of fity"
tells the other women,

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If this hussy stood up for judgment before us
five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as
the worshipful magistrates have awarded?  Marry, I trow
not!"

Another woman suggests
that a Hester Prynne should have been branded on the forehead because she believes that
Hester does not care about what she must wear on the bodice of her dress. Then, it is a
younger woman, a mother of a small child herself, who remarks that Hester will always
feel "the pang of it...in her heart."  To this show of sympathy, a woman cries out that
Hester has brought shame upon the entire community and should
die, 

"Is
there not a law for it?  Truly there is,....Then let the magistrates, who have made it
of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go
astray!"

It is evident from
the statements of most of the women that sin should be punished severely else members of
the community "go astray." Clearly, they perceive punishment as the only deterrent to
sin, having embraced the Calvinistic precept of the depravity of man, a precept which
strongly influenced Puritanism.  Within this Puritan community in which the women
reside, there must be a close vigil kept upon the inner and outer events of their
lives.  Indeed, the Puritan village is like the people: clad in gray, severe,
"sad-colored" with a prison door always looming before them.  Hester Prynne has dared to
express her passion, and the women are dismayed by this now overt display of the
weakness of emotion, equating it all to the most grievous of sins that should be
severely punished.

Who is Miss Moore and why does she take an interest in the neighborhood children?

In Toni Cade Bambara's short story, "The Lesson," Miss
Moore is a self-appointed advocate to a group of inner-city children in an effort to
open their minds to the world and their potential in that world,
that may not at first seem as if it has a place for
them.

The story starts out with Sylvia explaining that
"once upon a time," she was growing up when something was wrong with everyone else but
she and Sugar were the "only ones just right."
Then...

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...this lady moved on our block with nappy hair
and proper speech and no
makeup.

The children
foolishly laughed at her as they laughed at everyone, thinking they had all the answers
and no one could teach them anything they didn't already know. How sure they were of
themselves! Sylvia recalled that they hated her: Miss Moore, who was the only woman in
the neighborhood that had only a "Miss" and a "Moore," but no first
name.

And she
was black as hell, cept for her feet, which
were

fish-white and
spooky.

If that wasn't
enough, Sylvia thought, Miss Moore was always coming up with crazy ideas of things she
could do with the kids. She was always dressed up. The parents talked about her behind
her back, but then she showed up with some kind of gift, and the children were turned
over—the parents too embarrassed for the way they had spoken about her to say no. What
the kids don't realize is that there are secrets of the world about
which they know nothing. When they complain that "she don't never let up," it's true:
for she knows how hard life is, and what the kids need to do in order to be ready for
life challenges, as adults, some day. The reader can sense that Miss Moore believes that
this will make all the
difference.

After their visit to the expensive F.A.O.
Schwarz toy store, a seed is planted in Sylvia's mind. She is too stubborn to let on, or
let Sugar "let on" either.

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Then Sugar surprises me by sayin, "You know, Miss
Moore, I don't think all of us here put together eat in a year what that sailboat
costs." And Miss Moore lights up like somebody goosed
her.

Miss Moore looks for
signs of "intelligent life" beneath Sylvia's stubborn and unfriendly exterior. Though
Miss Moore may suspect she has reached Sylvia this day, Sylvia will not give her the
satisfaction of letting on. Miss Moore has gotten an intelligent response from Sugar,
and Sylvia is not very happy for it. However, the lesson is wasted on Sugar who forgets
it in favor of buying some sweets, but Sylvia does not. Like a
treasure, she keeps it to herself, promising to take it out and study it
later.

Miss Moore is attempting to mentor the children in
her neighborhood, and while the children give a limited amount of satisfaction to her
during their "lessons," the reader knows that her words will make a
difference—even if she only reaches one child. By the end of the story, the reader may
be thinking that Sylvia is the one, regardless of her cantankerous
nature. At the end, Sylvia and Sugar start to race, but Sylvia really isn't interested,
preoccupied by Miss Moore's lesson today:

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She can run if she want to and even run faster.
But ain't nobody gonna beat me at
nuthin.