In Antigone, how does Creon act unwise? How does Antigone act wise?

In Antigone, Creon acts unwisely by
refusing to heed the advice of others who try to counsel him.  For example, the blind
prophet Teiresias tries to tell Creon that the people of Thebes stand behind Antigone's
decision to bury Polyneices and that they feel sympathy for her situation.  Teiresias is
known throughout Thebes as a voice of truth, yet Creon does not listen to him.  Instead,
Creon insults Teiresias by assuming that he has been bribed to take Antigone's side in
the matter. 

On the other hand, Antigone acts wisely by not
allowing the baseless threats of others influence her decision to do what she believes
is morally the right thing to do.  Ismene disagrees with her sister about the burial of
Polyneices and tells Antigone that she will suffer terrible consequences as a result of
her decision.  However, Ismene speaks out of fear and a false sense of loyalty to Creon,
so Antigone is wise to disregard Ismene's words.

What are the similarities between the poems "Out, Out -" by Robert Frost and "Empty-Cradle Sad" by Bette Wolf Duncan?

1. Both the
poems are based on true life
incidents:

Frost's poem is based on a true
incident which is believed to have happened in April 1915; Raymond Fitzgerald, the son
of Frost’s friend and neighbour, lost his hand to a buzz saw and bled so profusely that
he went into shock, and died of cardiac arrest in spite of the best efforts of the
doctor.  Frost’s title invites us to compare the poem’s shocking story with Macbeth’s
speech on learning of his wife’s death:

The key to
understanding the theme of Frost's "Out, out-" lies in the intertextual reference to
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Act V Sc.5, where Macbeth
soliloquizes bitterly on the futility of life after he learns of the death of his
wife:

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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.

Frost's poem
ironically comments on the death of a small boy who dies tragically at such a young age
because of an accident when he was sawing wood.  His life is compared to a "brief
candle."

Bette Wolf Duncan's poem deals with an incident
which took place in the life of her late husband's grandmother. The mother in the poem
is her husband's grandmother and the infant is her
father-in-law.

2. Out door
work: Frost's poem describes a group of people sawing wood. Bette Wolf
Duncan's poem describes the mother engaged in agricultural
operations:

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Down below, with seeds and hoe,
Emma
sowed the garden
ground.

3.
Children are at the center of both the poems. In Frost's poem it was a
small boy and  in Bette Wolf Duncan's poem it was a new born
baby.

In Dylan's poem "Blowing in the Wind," what is meant by the lines "How many times must a man look up/Before he can see the sky"?

Bob Dylan's song combines the romantic and the political
quite beautifully. The two strands complement each other in the song. In these lines,
Dylan comes back to the central question of what does it take to be human, which he
keeps repeating in different forms throughout the song. He examines the values of human
experience, the limits to human tolerance, indifference and habituality, before it all
breaks free in the revolutionary upsurge--" How many years will it take till we
know/That too many people have died".

These questions are
rather unanswerable and the answer will always be blowing in the wind. In the lines
quoted in the question, Dylan questions the onset of intuition, sensibility and
awareness in temporal terms. How many occasions does a man need to arouse his sense of
insight into his own social responsibility. However, at a more individual level, the
lines may also refer to the timing of epiphanic knowledge. The following lines make the
sense clear--"How many years must one man have/Before he can feel, he can cry". This is
a clarion-call to man's waning sensibility at the wake of social
disasters.

In Macbeth, what was life in Scotland like under Macbeth's reign?

There is no doubt as to Malcolm's and Macduff's revulsion
for the usurper of Scotland. At the very outset of the scene, Macduff enthuses Malcolm
to take up arms and defend his inheritance and birthright. Macduff is outraged to see 
dead bodies of young men: widows and orphaned children bereft and grieving the loss of
loved ones. Their screams of agony rending the air and reverberating to the heavens
themselves.

Initially, we sense caution in Malcolm as to
his relationship with Macduff. He is suspicious of Macduff because he openly tells
Macduff that he has been a close friend of the tyrant and a favourite. His assumption is
that Macduff might have arrived in England only to lure the "poor, innocent lamb" into
the traitor's snare. He's of the opinion that Macduff may stand to gain by betraying
him. He quotes the example of Lucifer, who'd been God's favourite angel and yet was
thrown down from heaven because of his rebellious nature. He hints that Macduff too
could fall from grace and turn traitor.

There is no doubt
that Malcolm feels uneasy in casting aspersion on Macduff, but, that is only to protect
himself from being ensnared. He tells Macduff that he must not think of his suspicion as
dishonour to himself, for he may be quite honourable despite what he thinks of
him.

Macduff is appalled and visualizes the end of
Scotland, since its heir and successor, has lost faith even in those men who are loyal
to him. He grieves and says that Scotland will continue to bleed and there will be no
retribution for the evil and the wicked because "goodness dare not check
thee".

Malcolm is aware that Scotland is doomed and each
new day sees a fresh wound inflicted upon it. He knows that the tyranny and oppression
that Macbeth has unleashed upon its hapless people will not cease unless a greater power
is set forth toward Scotland to cower the brute and bring him to his
knees.

Explain: "O, I have bought the mansion of love..." UNTIL "... And may not wear them".

Key point to remember here:

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That very morning, Romeo and Juliet were married (quickly).  Then, Romeo ran off and got
in the huge street brawl.  Meanwhile, Juliet (the virgin) is back at home waiting for
her wedding night... thinking that due to her husband's rashness, may not in fact happen
now.

"Bought the mansion of a love but not possessed it," =
married legally but not carnally.

"sold, not enjoyed." =
what have I got out of this marriage yet?

"impatient child
that hath new robes and may not wear them..." = like, I've been waiting my entire life
for this moment, and now, it is HERE (I have the "clothes" to celebrate) and I won't get
to because my husband just murdered my cousin... and all I wanted was a honeymoon.  Is
that so much to ask?

Why doesn't Mayella confess the truth? Consider the circumstances of her life and the social context in which she must continue to live.this was in...

Think about the racial dynamics of those days and think
about what her father is like...

One of the reasons that
Tom is in so much trouble is that black men and white women are not supposed to have
anything to do with each other in that time and place.  So if Mayella has been
voluntarily doing something even a bit physical with a black man, she will be totally
scorned and shunned by other whites.

In addition, her dad
is a pretty violent man.  If he feels like she has humiliated him, he will surely beat
her.

What does the author say about the characters and their significance in the story? Use quotes and examples.

We learn a lot about Curley's wife based on what other
characters say of her. Thus, I agree with dstuva, the author doesn't make value
statements but let's the characters display that.

The men
call her a tart and a loo-loo. Not being common slang today, we infer by their use of
these terms that they mean she is flirty, flighty and maybe a little permiscuous. Yet,
her name, Curley's wife, suggests she is actually property. Always seeming to look for
Curley, the men seem to wonder if she's not really either looking for Slim or looking
for a man to be with other than Curley. This is a character I believe looking for an
escape from her current life.

Another way characterization
occurs besides other characters saying something about someone else is from a character
saying something directly about themselves. Curley's wife admits in chapter 4 that she
feels limited by Curley. In chapter 5 she explains that she could have been in
pictures.

Curley's wife symbolizes the desire to be free
from current situations. That is her significance.

What other names are given to Napoleon in chapter 8? What do these titles suggest about his character?

Napoleon is called by all sorts of names that make him
sound really good.  The book lists some of them.  Here is the quote where you can find
some of these names.

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He was always referred to in formal style as
‘our Leader, Comrade Napoleon,’ and this pigs liked to invent for him such titles as
Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings'
Friend, and the like

To me,
what this shows is that Napoleon is totally drunk on his own power.  He is starting to
try to put together a "cult of personality" where the whole society is based on revering
him.

So he must have a huge ego and he must really want
everyone to think that he is the next thing to a god.

Please comment in detail about the immorality and hypocrisy of Mr.Wickham in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.Please reply soon !

Wickham's name is no coincidence for he is, indeed,
"wicked".

As Darcy explains to
Elizabeth,

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Mr. Wickham is the son of a very respectable man
who had for many years the management of all the Pemberly estates; and whose good
conduct in the discharge of this trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to
him; and on George Wickham, who was his god-son, his kindness was therefore liberally
bestowed.

We know that
Wickham was supported by Darcy's father to even attend college at Cambridge. However,
all it did for him was make him a master of illusions, and a deceitful traitor with the
charm and manners that could fool everyone.

Ad the death of
Mr. Darcy (the father) Wickham's true colors came out. He refused to take on any
profession of which Mr. Darcy Senior would have liked, and he demanded that Mr. Darcy
(the son) would support him monetarily in the pursue of other goals. This, he did with
premeditation and haughtiness, using the affection that Old Mr. Darcy had for him as a
way to shove it to  the Young Darcy, who always figured as
much.

On top of it, Wickham proposed himself to Darcy's
sister Georgiana, and they eloped. Using the same charm and wit, he convinced her of a
lot of follies, and she fell for it only to be saved in reputation later by young
Darcy.

In addition to that, he did the same thing with
Elizabeth's sister Lydia. Lydia, who already was the closest thing to a bubble head, was
infatuated with men in uniform and with the idea of marriage. Wickham proposed that they
also eloped, which she did, ruining her reputation and their chances in society. Darcy
intervened one more time by finding them in Brighton and marrying them off, which
allowed Lydia to return with her head held high (and very snobby
too).

The biggest prroblem with Wickham is that he poses to
be, as Elizabeth says, "the most agreeable man" when, in fact, he is deceitful,
ambitious, immoral, and careless. He did not love any of the women he eloped with, and
his effrontery as a military officer was just a way to attract people into thinking that
he was an honorable man.

What is the plot of "Soldier's Home"?

The plot of "Soldier’s Home" involves Krebs as the
protagonist in conflict with the abstract antagonism of peacetime adjustment. Obviously,
those around him expect him to be the little boy he was, and to be unchanged by the war.
They therefore assume that he can begin life again as though nothing has happened. The
crisis of the story is his conversation with his mother, and the climax is his promise
to be a good boy for his "Mummy" (paragraph 86). This portion of the story indicates
that his disaffection is approaching total alienation. The resolution, in his decision
to go to Kansas City and in his going to watch his sister play ball, suggests a
compromise with his disaffection. Though he will continue to feel like an outsider, in
other words, he will keep his misgivings to himself, and will fit in, at least
externally, with life at home.

What is the significance of Italy's invasion of Libya and Greece?

Well, to clarify, Libya was already an Italian colony at
the beginning of World War II, so Italy didn't need to invade it.  You may be thinking
of Ethiopia, which Mussolini attacked in 1936.  While he was successful at conquering
this poor, ill-equipped nation, it demonstrated that his army was no
juggernaut.

He fared even worse in Greece, where a massive
Italian attack was stopped by a few understrength divisions of the Greek Army.  For six
months, Mussolini's forces failed to gain the upper hand.  He called his friend Hitler,
who agreed to help him out by invading both Yugoslavia and Greece in "Operation
Punishment".  German forces conquered both nations in a mere seven
days.

This operation delayed the attack on the Soviet Union
by five weeks, which would become crucial the following December, when German troops
stalled right outside of Moscow as winter set in.  If they had attacked in early May
instead, as planned, they likely would have taken the city.

Why have the Democratic and Republican parties been so durable so as to maintain exsistence since the Civil War? Explain.

I think pohnpei's response is right on.  Ours has been
designed as a two party system, first by the Founding Fathers in order to avoid what
Washington called "The dangers of faction".  Since that time, the two party system
supports and continues itself, making it very difficult for other interested parties to
enter the race.

We should acknowledge that there are many
more than two parties in the US today.  The Green Party, Socialist Party, Communist
Party and Reform Party to name a few.  These parties always put up candidates for the
Presidency, and always lose badly.  They are not even allowed to attend
debates.

The Democrat and Republican parties have loads of
cash, name recognition, a base of support, and a hammerlock on power.  They also try to
absorb other political movements and would-be parties by including some of the issues
important to them in their party "platforms" adopted at the national
conventions.

In what ways does Sassoon use irony to express his anger through his poem "The Hero"?

Sassoon's "The Hero" focuses on anger, irony of situation,
and hypocrisy.   

Specifically, concerning anger, the
"Brother Officer" is angry at Jack, a "cold-footed, useless swine."  But on a larger
level, the poem reveals anger at a system that perpetuates
war. 

A boy goes to war.  He is scared to death and does
not represent himself or his country well.  He is blown to bits.  A Colonel writes a
letter to the mother of the soldier, "so nicely."  A fellow soldier goes to his mother
and lies about how brave he was.  The mother is gullible and falls for the nicely
written letter and the lies of the fellow soldier.  The fellow soldier is left
regretting what he's done.

The characters are all in no-win
situations, ironical situations.  None of the characters, with the possible exception of
Jack, can be easily blamed for what they do.  The Colonel and the Fellow Officer
certainly can't tell the mother the truth about her cowardly son.  The mother can't help
but want to believe her son was brave and died nobly.

Yet,
all of them are to be blamed for perpetuating the war machine.  The mother, for
instance, falls for the letter partly because of how nicely it is written.  Those are
her first words after she reads it.  She bows her head because she is choking up and is
embarrassed and hurt, not because she doesn't believe what the Colonel and Fellow
Soldier say.  She believes it and is emotionally
moved. 

The Colonel and the Fellow soldier perpetuate the
myth of a close-knit military that cares for its own, of bravery and valor and heroism. 
When the truth is:

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...how, at last, he
died,

Blown to small bits.  And no one seemed to
care

Except that lonely woman with white
hair.

Irony
abounds:

• the Colonel and Fellow Soldier don't
  tell the truth to the grieving mother


• the mother believes
  the fabricated version of her son's military service, she believes what she wants to
  believe


• this is seemingly how it has to be, at least from
  the military standpoint


• yet this perpetuates the war
  machine, when telling the truth might help the public understand the truth about war and
  therefore make them less likely to support it


• therefore,
  politeness and consideration, if you give the Colonel and the Fellow Officer the benefit
  of the doubt, actually lead to destruction and
  despair.

What is ironic about the fact that Farquhar agrees with the saying that, "all is fair in love and war?""An Occurrence at Owl Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce

In Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,"
the irony of the statement to which Farquhar agrees, "all is fair in love and war" is
situational irony.  That is, there is discrepancy between what is expected to happen on
Farquahar's part, and what actually happens.

Thinking that
he is justified in performing whatever service he can in aid of the South, Farquhar
learns from a soldier dressed in grey that the bridge has driftwood now that is dry and
"would burn like tow." In addition to the irony of the soldier being in reality a
Federal scout, the situational irony is that Farquar sets out to burn the bridge when in
actuality it is the bridge that effects his own death:  "A man stood upon a railroad
bridge....the two private soldiers stepped aside and each drew away the plank upon which
he had been standing."  

Farquhar's being hanged on the
bridge which he has intended to burn makes even the choice of words
used by Bierce to describe the phase "all is fair in love and war" ironic.  For, Bierce
writes that the phase is a "frankly villainous dictum."  Obviously, nothing is fair in
love and war.  And, it is here that the central irony of Bierce's story lies.  For,
Peyton Farquhar is the butt of the satire in this story and not the sympathetic hero
that he first seems. As the story unfolds, Bierce develops the "frankly villainous"
nature of war as he contrasts it with Farquar's romanticized, unrealistic view
of "gallant army," "larger life of the soldier," "opportunity for distinction," and "no
adventure too perilous."

Farquar's imagined escape, too, is
ironic as it is a "civilian's dream of war," as well:

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'If I could free my hands,' he thought, 'I might
throw off the noose and spring into the stream,  By diving I could evade the bullets
and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods, and get
home.'

The knowledge of war
that Peyton Farquhar has is that of books, not reality.  In fact, his imaginings are
described by one critic as "Walter-Mitty like."  Even his name is ironic: 
Peyton derives from the Scottish Payton, a
form of Patrick, which means of noble birth;
Farquhar derives from the Gaelic Fearachar,
meaning manly or brave.  Clearly, Bierce's theme of the less than glorious condition of
war comes through with all the ironic elements of his story.

How does Prospero have control over Caliban?

Prospero has clearly got some control over Caliban.
However the extent of control is substantially lower than you would have thought.  In
act 1 scene 2, Miranda and Prospero visit Caliban. Miranda obviously doesn’t care about
control over him, “I do not love to look on,” all she wants is too stay away from him.
This is not her only vain moment in the play. Prospero however makes a great show of how
much power he has, how he can punish Caliban, yet Caliban is completely used to this
form of abusive behaviour that he replies with a non-sequitur. He is obviously immune to
his punishments by now.  That shows that he just ignores Prospero most of the time, and
doesn’t see him as a threat. However Prospero can control some aspects of Calibans life.
He controls where Caliban lives, what Caliban does, and where he is allowed to go.
Prospero cannot control what Caliban says to him. Prospero taught him their language, so
Caliban must have heard it from Prospero first.  In conclusion, Prospero controls
Caliban in the only way he knows how, with magic.

What did Union troops have on their uniforms?

At the very beginning of the war most Federal uniforms
were "frock coats." These were knee-length, somewhat styledcoats that were lined and way
too hot for summer usage. Other than insignia of rank, according to military
specifications, brass insignia was mostly on the leather goods associated with the
uniform. A cartridge box with a leather strap was hanging from the left shoulder, across
the chest, and resting on the right hip. This was kept in place by a leather belt. On
the cartridge box as a shiny brass oval with the letters US on it (for the regular army,
that is). On the front of the strap that crossed the chest was another shiny brass
circle with an eagle on it. As a belt buckle was another shiny brass oval with the
letters US on it. On the head gear would be a Jaegar horn (hunter's horn - a curved horn
which symbolized that the wearer hunted down the enemies of his country) along with a
brass letter and a brass number. These represented company and
regiment.

It didn't take too long for the soldier to
realize all this brass reflected the sunlight pretty well and created easier targets for
the enemy to shoot at. Thyerefore, as much of this stuff was removed as they could get
away with. Also, the stylish frock coat was soon replaced by a very common sack coat
which came in four sizes; size 1, 2, 3, and 4.

What is the plot of Twelfth Night?

Twelfth Night is a story about transgression. Shakespeare
plays with the themes of love, mistaken identity, and social class in this comedy. The
play actually contains three plotlines that come together in the final scene.  The
plotlines are held together by the character of Feste, the Fool, who can cross social
boundaries because of his exemption from behaving, the right of an "allowed Fool." The
plotlines are as follows:

1. Viola, stranded on Illyria
after a shipwreck and the loss of her twin Sebastian, is forced by her status as a
single, unaccompanied woman, to disguise herself as a boy and work at Orsino's court.
There she falls in love with Orsino but cannot reveal herself because of her deception.
Orsino is in love with the Lady Olivia, who has also recently lost a brother. He sends
Viola, in her disguise as the page Cesario, to woo Olivia. Olivia then falls in love
with Cesario, unaware that "he" is "she."

2. Sebastian did
not drown, but was saved by Antonio, who cares for him. He, too, is in Illyria, but does
not know that his sister is alive. He and Antonio must part ways since Antonio is
Orsino's enemy, but he does not want to leave Sebastian and follows
him.

3. Toby, Olivia's relative, has brought Andrew, a
"foolish knight" to woo her in hopes of being the financial beneficiary of their union.
They are continually in trouble for drinking and partying at all hours in Olivia's house
with the help of Maria, Olivia's gentlewoman.  The steward Malvolio, who has delusions
of marrying Olivia himself, threatens to expose them and they devise a plot to undo him,
sending him to Olivia under the pretense that she has written him a
letter.

Of course, all the characters finally come together
and are unmasked at the end of the play. Orsino gets Viola; Sebastian gets Olivia, and
Maria marries Sir Toby.

What does the word Howl mean when Parris says They Will Howl Me Out Of Salem?

It is important to remember a few details about this
quote. One, at what point of the play does he say this ( the context of the quote)? The
other, why does playwright Arthur Miller choose the word "howl" to characterize Parris
in this line?

one:

The quote
is referring to Parris' response to Thomas' comment of the possibility of  being accused
of having witchcraft in his house. Parris lives in constant fear of his community.  He
does not trust his
parish.

Two:

Remember that in
plays the characters are developed through the words they speak. They are carefully
chosen by the playwright for that reason.

So, let's look at
the word howl. The definiton of "howling" is an sound/action of a group of wild dogs
often heard at night after a successful hunt. The connotation ( shade of emotional
meaning) is more powerful when the word spoken gives the audience perspectives that a
character is feeling.

Parris is a fearful character who is
constantly sucked in by the antics and hysteria of others. Parris' use of "howl"
illustrates his attitude toward the "pack of wild dogs" that is his community. The use
of  language is Miller's way of illustrating Parris as a character and reveals how
Parris feels about the other members of his community.

If
Parris would have said "they will run me out of town" it would not have the same
imagery.  "Howl" is a  derogatory (  put down) in reference to members of his community.
Parris obviously does not respect the people he serves: he thinks of them as wild dogs
that will hunt him down if given a reason.

What is the role of poet according to emerson with reference to essay, ''poet", discuss.what are the functions of a true poet addvocated by emerson?

The poet, according to Emerson, has to be just about
everything. 

He has to be a seer into the soul of man, he
must be an interpreter and a
prophet.

 I
know not how it is that we need an interpreter; but the great majority of men seem to be
minors, who have not yet come into possession of their own, or mutes, who cannot report
the conversation they have had with
nature. 

Mankind may see
things about them in their world, but so very few ever put into words a great expression
that impacts, that influences, that makes value of the every day mundane to all other
men. This is the power of a poet that interprets.

The poet
must be a foreteller, a
prophet:

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The sign and credentials of the poet are, that he
announces that which no man foretold. He is the true and only doctor; he knows and
tells; he is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance
which he describes.

The poet
must have the ability to color and accompany life. This is
the difference between watching television in black and white or on an HD LCD screen in
living color. This is the difference between a tinny cheap radio and a live
orchestra.

We
hear, through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are
men of talents who
sing.

Poets must have
imagination, and they must have energy.

Analyze William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" in chronological order.

Reassembling William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for
Emily," is no easy task since it is told in a manner that includes multiple shifts in
time. Chronologically, we first hear of Emily in her 20s, "a slender figure" pictured
with her father in a photograph. Emily's father died while she was in her 30s, and she
refused to allow the body to be removed from the house for three days. "She was sick for
a long time" after that, and when she next appeared her hair had been cut short. She met
Homer Barron soon after. Their romance was a short one. Some of Emily's relatives
visited to discuss her relationship with this Yankee working man. After the relatives
left, Homer reappeared, but soon he was gone--but not before Emily had made an unusual
purchase of rat poison. Not long after, a smell was noticed about the Grierson house,
and some townspeople soon spread lime around the outer fringes of the home to eradicate
the smell. Soon, it, too, was gone.

It was a long time
before Emily was seen again, and her hair was turning gray. She gave china painting
lessons for "six or seven years, when she was about forty." Soon after, she was greeted
by a delegation to inquire about her taxes, which she refused to pay. After the children
stopped coming for the painting lessons, Emily was rarely visible. Only her manservant,
Tobe, was seen, except for an occasional glimpse of her sitting in a downstairs chair.
She died at the age of 74.

Following her death, Tobe
disappeared. The funeral was held "on the second day" afterward and was attended by
several of her cousins and men in Confederate uniforms. After Emily "was decently in the
ground," a group of men arrived to inspect the old house. They found the upstairs
bedroom locked. When they broke the door down, they found the skeletal remains of a
man in the bed with a yellowed pillow beside his skull: It had the indentation of a head
and on it lay a single iron-gray hair.  

How Does Jem change?? And What does Scout learn about Calpurnia?

i think what jem went through is more than just physical
growth.

1) he was able to see the bigger picture to
situations when he told atticus that dill had runaway from hom- "broke the remaining
code of our childhood." because he understood

that his parents would be very
worried.

2) jem learns that it is pride, not
pain (a kind of "manly thought")and begins to treasure
relationships.

he goes back to retrieve his pants even
though he could have lost his life - nathan radley said he would shoot if he saw anyone
in his collard patch. even scout discourages him- "a lickin' hurts but it doesn't last."
yet, he knows that atticus would be dissapointed in him and he didn't want this to
happen. "atticus ain't ever whipped me as along as i can remember and i want to keep it
that way." this shows that to gain apprival from atticus, he is even willing to lose his
life.appreactiation of relationships can also be seen when he cries when nathan radley
sealed up the knothole. "i saw that he had been crying."

3)
jem learns that things are not in black and white but in shades of grey and that people
are not as pleasant as they seem.

he saw people as
segreggated as he grew older- "four kinds of folks in the world", "Why do they go out of
their way an' despise each other?" he felt like he was a "caterpillar in a cocoon"- he
had never knew these harsh facts of life.

4) jem learns to
sympathise and empathise

roly poly bug- he told scout
"don't do that" when she tried to squish it.

boo radley-
"maybe he doesn't want to come out......"

he is more
sensitive to the defenceless.

as for scout and
calpurnia,

1) scout learns that cal can bring herself down
to the level of others when required because "folks don't like it" when you try to "put
on airs to beat moses." she is a sensitive character and a respectable one as
well.

hope it helped! i was trying to do my own
revision too.  (:

What is the point of view in the novel and how does it affect the book and why?

In The Catcher in the Rye, the
point-of-view is first person flashback told in "sweet style" teenage vernacular
arranged in an episodic structure to show a humorous and rebellious tone.  The narration
also adds psychological depth of an alienated narrator caught in an unjust society.  The
last two points below (K. & L.) are key.

Here are
the nuts and bolts from my lecture notes:

I.
Narration

A.
Bildungsroman: novel of maturation

B. Coming-of-Age
(apprenticeship novel)

C. Bookend structure: framed in
California; story proper is Penn., NYC

D. Holden’s voice is
implicitly male voice

E. American
voice

F. Folksy voice

G.
Youthful, teenage voice with adult voice behind it

1.
conversational style

2. simple
language

3. colloquial
(slang)

4. lots of
repetition

5. cussing

6. many
digressions

H. Holden is unreliable
narrator

I. Confession (“If you really want to hear about
it…)

1. to a
psychiatrist/psychologist?

2. to a priest,
monk?

3. to Allie?

4. to
Phoebe?

J. Narrating from a “rest
home”

1. psychiatrist’s
office?

2. mental facility?

3.
D.B.’s pad?

K. Only rants and complains (no
morals)

L. Holden is marginalized (exists on the fringes of
society)

What is your impression of Mayella Ewell? On what are you basing it? What role does Atticus' questions play in forming this impression?

Mayella Ewell is definitely a young woman deserving of
some pity in To Kill a Mockingbird. She is stuck with an
evil drunkard of a father who beats her and possibly even takes advantage of her
sexually. With her mother dead, she is forced to raise the remainder of the Ewell clan
herself. She has no friends, no money and no prospects for the future. She asks Tom to
come to her house out of loneliness, and she later tells him that she has never been
kissed, so "she might as well kiss a nigger."

Of course,
Mayella is still guilty of framing Tom for her supposed rape. No doubt it was her father
who did the beating after catching her with Tom, but she still bears the responsibility
for going along with the story that her father has concocted. Her fear of her father
left her with little choice.

Are multiparty systems necessarily more representative than the two party system in the United States? why or why not?

For the most part, I would say that they are more
representative, but I would not say that they are necessarily
so.

They are generally more representative because in those
systems, smaller parties can more accurately represent the wishes of their members.  For
example, if we had a "Tea Party Party" in the US, it could accurately represent its
members' attitudes without having to compromise.

However,
in such systems, parties might have a harder time representing people who feel that
there are many important issues.  For example, if we had an anti-abortion party and an
anti-tax party and an anti-environmentalism party, what representation would there be
for people who think all of those are equally important?  Or for those who think that
two of the three are but one is not?

Voters all have
different mixes of issue attitudes and issue salience and even multiparty systems cannot
accurately represent everyone.

One other issue to consider
is that, in a multi-party system, you are often voting for slates of candidates rather
than being able to specifically vote for a given person.  You could say this is less
representative as well.

In what ways does the Party employ technology? Another version of the question: How does technology affect the Party’s ability to control its...

I believe the Party uses technology mainly as a way to
control its citizens.  It does this by using technology for surveillance and for
propaganda.

The main image of technology in
1984 is, to me, the television screen.  These screens are two-way
things that allow some one to watch everyone who has a screen all the time.  We also
know that the Party can plant microphones in various places.  If you never knew when the
Party was watching you or listening to you, I would think that would control you a
lot.

The Party also uses the screens and movies for
propaganda.  It uses them, for example, in the Two Minutes Hate.  This sort of use
affects the way people think.  That helps the Party control them as
well.

How do you think the Soviet Union felt about the United States and its numerous alliance systems?cold war alliance systems

In a word, threatened.  While US policy and that of the
West during the Cold War was one of containment, and didn't threaten the Soviets
directly, you have to remember that Russia had been invaded by Germany twice in the last
half century, so the formation of the NATO alliance with hundreds of thousands of troops
and eventually nuclear weapons made them feel insecure, and rightfully so. They formed
the Warsaw Pact alliance in response to NATO, pure and
simple.

I think the Soviets were less threatened by our
ANZUS alliance (Australia-New Zealand-US) or the alliance with Japan, but it did pose
more of a threat to China and to communist expansion in the region which the Soviets
supported.

What are some quotes that reflect images of sight/blindness, animals, and hell/demons from the play Othello?

One of the first, and a relatively famous animal quote is
from Iago as he calls up to Brabantio's house in the middle of the night in reference to
his daughter being with Othello: "Even now, no, very now, an old black ram Is tupping
your white ewe."  Of course he is trying to make the image as repellant as possible to
arouse anger in Brabantio and drive him to attack Othello the moor.  Just a little bit
later he says againto Brabantio:

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you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary
horse, you'll have your nephews neigh to you, you'll have coursers for cousins, and
jennets for germans.

Pretty
nasty stuff!

A quote close by that reflects the idea of
vision or blindness is from the First Senator after the Duke asks him how it is possible
that the Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes rather than for Cyprus:  "'Tis a pageant
to keep us in false gaze" reflecting the idea that they have been looking the wrong
way.

Discuss Andrew Marvell as a metaphysical poet.

Andrew Marvell in his poem "To His Coy Mistress"
demonstrates two characteristics of poetry we, today, categorize as
metaphysical.

He uses stretched metaphors, for example.  In
part one of his syllogism, or logical argument designed to convince his target--a
woman--to sleep with him, he refers to their love as "vegetable love."  The idea is that
if they were immortal and could spend centuries in the wooing stage
of love making, their love could grow as slowly as a vegetable.  The metaphor is
stretched, of course.  The slow growing rate of a vegetable is not normally compared to
love growing.

Secondly, Marvell displays and revels in his
wit and intelligence and learning.  In the second part of his syllogism, in which he
centers on the mortality of humans, he concludes with

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The grave's a fine and private
place,

But none, I think, do there
embrace.

And later, in part
three, he says that the lovers should be like "amorous birds of
prey."

The grave couplet demonstrates his wit and keeps the
poem a little lighter than the morbid imagery might otherwise make
it.

The comparison of lovers to loving predators
demonstrates both a stretched metaphor and wit.

The
stretched metaphors, the wit displayed, and, additionally, the carpe diem theme, mark
Marvell as a metaphysical poet.

What are the main arguments of Madison Jones's essay "A Good Man's Predicament," which deals with Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to...

In his essay “A Good Man’s Predicament,” Madison Jones
essentially takes issue with Flannery O’Connor’s own interpretation of the very end of
the story.  Jones offers a different interpretation and suggests that his own reading
may be truer to the actual phrasing of the story and to reality (at least as reality is
generally understood) than is O’Connor’s interpretation.  He implies that the two
interpretations may not be incompatible, but he suggests that if they
cannot be reconciled, then his interpretation makes better sense of
the story.

In an essay on “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,”
O’Connor herself had argued that God uses the grandmother to touch The Misfit, both
literally and figuratively.  This touch was a moment of grace – an opportunity for The
Misfit to transform his life spiritually, if only he would take advantage of the
opportunity.  By reaching out to The Misfit (O’Connor had argued), the grandmother truly
and finally lives her Christian faith:

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The Grandmother is at last alone, facing the
Misfit.  Her head clears for an instant and she realizes. even in her limited way, that
she is responsible for the man before her and joined to him by ties of kinship which
have their roots deep in the mystery she has been merely prattling about so far.  And at
this point, she does the right thing, she makes the right
gesture.

The fact that the
grandmother was killed by The Misfit as a result of her gesture meant nothing to
O’Connor.  We are all destined to die, but the grandmother’s gesture had given a depth
of meaning to her life that it had hitherto lacked. Her dead body is ultimately
unimportant; her spiritual salvation is all that truly
matters.

Jones resists this Christian interpretation, or at
least he suggests that it is not the only one that makes sense of the story.  Instead,
he argues as follows:

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Given the Misfit's image of himself, [the
grandmother's] words and her touching, blessing him, amount to intolerable insult, for
hereby she includes him among the world's family of vulgarians. One of her children, her
kind, indeed!

In other words,
The Misfit kills the grandmother not because God uses the grandmother as an instrument
of grace but because her touch violates his pride.  Jones leaves open the possibility
that The Misfit may perceive the grandmother as an instrument of
God, but he argues that there is no reason why readers must share that perception.  The
story, in other words, makes perfect sense from a secular perspective and using secular
psychology.  There is nothing, necessarily, miraculous about the grandmother’s gesture
or The Misfit’s response. The Misfit may even perceive the
grandmother as an instrument of God, but readers do not necessarily have to share this
perception in order to appreciate the story or find it
meaningful.

A critic of Jones’s interpretation might argue
that he fails to discuss various details in the end of the story that support O’Connor’s
reading (particularly our final view of the grandmother, “with her legs crossed under
her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky”), but Jones’s reading,
as he himself suggests, may not necessarily conflict with
O’Connor’s.

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Read Walt Whitman’s poem below. What implications may it have, not just for this course, but for your...

If you are pursuing a master's degree, you are going to
have to learn a lot of information. Depending on your field, it may be mathematical
formulas, scientific data, a vast body of literature -- no matter. However, in this
poem, the poet acknowledges that sometimes one can suffer from information
overload.

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When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in
columns before me;

When I was shown the charts and the
diagrams, to add, divide and measure
them;

When the poet considers
all of the "stuff" of learning, he becomes bored and goes outside and looks at the night
sky. Ah! He is instantly amazed, for in gazing at the sky, he is really learning. He is
not bored. He is soaking in a true appreciation of the world. He can learn more by
observing the real "learned astronomer" who is the creator of the
"perfect silence" of the stars. It is a mystical experience for
him.

So, like the poet, will the learning that you obtain
from your advanced degree enrich your life? It should. If not, it will merely be proofs,
figures, charts and diagrams.

In Romeo and Juliet, who are three characters whose personality traits complement or contrast each others' personalities?I need THREE characters...

Tybalt, Mercutio, and Benvoliorepresent three diverse
points along a conitnuum. Tybalt is fiery and hot-blooded, with a short temper that is
prone to violence and confrontation. We see this in the opening fight scene and just
prior to the death of Mercutio. Benvolio, on the other hand, is at the opposite end of
this spectrum (as is Romeo, who might also be inserted here). He resists violence and
confrontation and seeks peace the vast majority of the time. In the opening fight scene
he resists engaging Tybalt as long as he possibly can and finally does fight only to
protect himself. In fact, Benvolio opens Act III by trying to avoid
confrontation:

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I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's
retire:
The day is hot, the Capulets
abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not scape a
brawl;
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood
stirring.

It is
Mercutio, then, who represents a kind of middle ground between Tybalt and Benvolio.
Mercutio fights when provoked and certainly doesn't shy away from engaging such
situations, but it is not Mercutio who actually starts the fight. Mercutio seems to
swing back and forth between the hot-headedness of Tybalt and Benvolio's desire for
peace. In fact, Mercutio's name comes from the word "mercurial," meaning
"characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood;
a mercurial temper."

I just need to make sure one thing, communism is related to 'after the bomb' because communism was spreading rapidly after the cold war.So it would...

Communism became a worldwide phenomenon in the late 19th
century.  Anyone interested in philosophy during this period took a long, hard look at
the idealism of communism.  In the early 20th century, communist powers took control of
Russia and surrounding countries (changing the name to the Soviet Union).  China and
Cuba were taken over by communist factions afterwords.  In the middle to late 20th
century, communist nations were aiding communist factions in taking over countries such
as Korea, Veitnam, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and some other places.  This was viewed as
a threat to the nations of the West.

The Cold War is a
concept referring to the building of two nations with large-scale nuclear capability. 
The Unitied States stated that communism is evil.  Communism is, by nature,
anti-capitalist.  This is where the bad blood starts.  At its heart, communism is a
system that is supposed to help the common people that capitalism theoretically
alienates.  In a capitalist society, there is a percentage of people who have most of
the moeny; communism was supposed to rectify that.  However, the leaders that arose in
communist nations seemed to use the ideals of communism to rally support for their more
selfish motives.

For those who did not live during the time
of The Cold War, it can be equated somewhat to the way that people in the United States
look at Muslims as being dangerous.  There are some bad people associated with the
Muslim faith, taking its tenets a bit too far.  The difference, though, is that there
were a couple of very large nations with governments possessing large armies that were
seen as "the bad guys" instead of small radical groups.  It was a frightening time, a
time in which everyone thought the world could end at any
moment.

I hope this helps with your
question.

Comment on the use of supernatural elements in Macbeth.

I have to divide the post in two parts for its
length.

Part
1:

In the play Macbeth,
the supernatural elements primarily include the “weird sisters” and their gang. These
elements are used to pave way to show Macbeth the path of his ultimate
downfall.

The three witches instigate Macbeth's inner
ambition and greed by luring him. And this they do through their so-called prophecies.
The predictions of the witches and the apparitions are nothing but equivocations in the
name of prophecies. The witches, at first, tell Macbeth that he would be the Thane of
Cawdor and the King of Scotland soon. This is not something extra-supernatural they do,
since, it is a matter of common-sense that, Macbeth, if he would have fought
courageously and shown his man-of-the-battle attitude, he would definitely get rewarded,
and if he continues to go after his ambition, would be the king possibly. Later, the
apparitions prophesy that the no human born of women can kill Macbeth ever, and he would
not be killed unless Birnam wood would come closer to his fort. The first prophecy is a
lie in a sense that, Macduff, who is born of his dead mother's body via surgery, kills
him. The second one is an equivocation also, since, though Birnam Wood does not come
closer, yet the soldiers of the opposition hide them under the leaves of the forest, and
this makes him think as if the forest itself is moving towards him, and he loses all his
hope and courage to fight further. It is clear hence that, what the prophecies told was
half-truth to destroy Macbeth. Ambiguity they create in
Macbeth's mind throughout the whole play. Ambiguity, or conflict between appearance and
reality, is one of the key themes in this tragedy. The witches just equivocate in a
dubious way; implying that, lie in a way which seems apparently true. And this they do
solely to win his trust and make him a devil like them.

The
witches know that, Macbeth is an ambitious man who just needs a spur in order to rouse
his ambition and let it develop fully to achieve his end. They show him what he wanted
to see. They tell him what he wanted to hear. Their prophecy awakens his inner demon and
instigates his voracity. Macbeth is thus deceived. He is told that no human born of
woman can kill him; neither would he be killed till the Birnam Wood come close to his
fort. Later, when he finds that the Birnam Wood does not come nearer, rather soldiers
hiding themselves under leaves come closer, and Macduff is found to be born out of
surgery probably because of his mother's illness or death, he understands clearly that,
he has been deceived by the witches' dubious prophecy. In act 5, scene
7, disillusioned Macbeth tells to Macdufff: "Accursed be
that tongue... / That palter with us in a double sense, / That keep the word of promise
to our ear/ And break it to our hope." So, it is clear that, the witches
prophesies contributes to influence and instigate him towards evil deed.

In fact, Lady Macbeth's greed and cruelty
increases more once she is aware of the witches' prophetic
statements.

You find a puddle of a clear liquid on your drive way. it is either water, vinegar, or battery acid from the car.How can you safely test (other...

If it is a question relating to chemistry, perhaps it
assumes ready availability of some chemicals or facilities of testing. Bur if it is a
question from common everyday life, I will try to make out the substance from its smell.
While water will have no smell, vinegar will have a very distinct smell. Acid will have
some kind of acrid smell which I may not recognize very clearly. If some how or the
other I had a means of knowing that is is only one of these three options the smell test
will be good enough to identify the liquid clearly. But If I do not have these three
possible options, things will be more difficult.

But then I
will not just stop with the smell test. I will also try to find the source from which
the liquid in the puddle has come. Once possible sources have been identified, I will
match the smell of liquid in puddle with that in suspected source. If this matches, it
will be a confirmation of the original smell test.

What is the theme of "Thank You, Ma'am?"

To me, the theme of this story is that people can be
transformed by love and trust more than they can be transformed by fear and
punishment.

In the story, Roger is a thief.  But when he
meets up with Mrs. Jones, his life is changed because she catches
him.

But she does not call the police or tell his parents
or anything.  Instead, she treats him well and shows that she trusts
him.

This works, in my opinion, because people often behave
the way they are expected to behave.  That is the theme of the story in my opinion --
the idea that if you trust someone and treat them well, you can change their
life.

When Daisy tells Nick, "Sophisticated--- God, i'm sophisticated" how is she hoping to be viewed? Why does Nick recognize a "basic insincerity?"

I think that when Daisy says this to Nick (in Chapter 1),
she is trying to convince Nick that she is happy and in a good place in her life.  She
wants him to think that her life has turned out well.

Nick
does not tell us what it is that makes him think that she is not telling the truth.  He
says he just can tell from the point that "her voice broke off" that she is not being
sincere.

To me, it would be pretty weird to say to someone
that you are really sophisticated.  It seems like one of those things that you let
people notice for themselves.  So I think maybe he realizes she's insincere because she
feels the need to say that.  It's like someone telling you how smart they are or how
good at sports -- it seems like a cover up for their real
feelings.

In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, consider Huck's understanding of "Providence" in Chapter 32 and explain whether Miss Watson...

In Chapter 32 of Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, Huck arrives at the Phelps' farm and
notes:

I went
right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put
the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always
did put the right words in my mouth if I left it
alone.

In this quote, it
seems that Huck is relying on "Providence," or God, to work things out for him with the
Phelps as he attempts to free Jim.

In Chapter Three, Huck
reflects upon "Providence," comparing the widow's version and Miss Watson's
version:

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Sometimes the widow would take me one side and
talk about Providence in a way to make a body’s mouth water; but maybe next day Miss
Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. I judged I could see that there was
two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow’s
Providence, but if Miss Watson’s got him there warn’t no help for him any more. I
thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow’s if he wanted me, though I
couldn’t make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before,
seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and
ornery.

While the widow is
more charitable where God is concerned, Miss Watson (her sister) is focused more on a
"fire and brimstone" version of God. Miss Watson puts on a great show of acting like a
Christian woman, but she is never able to make Huck want to have any part of religion
because Huck is never led to believe (based on her perceptions of religion) that he is
worthwhile in the sight of God. He cannot see how someone as "ignorant" and "low-down
and ornery" as he would do well with Miss Watson's version of
"Providence."

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[Miss Watson] represents a view of Christianity
that is severe and
unforgiving. 

Ironically, the
widow seems to have a kinder understanding of "Providence." Huck believes that the
widow...

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...represents all that is good and decent to
him. 

On his own, Huck leans
toward seeing Providence as a kindly power, as long as Huck does not try to cook up some
kind of plan, but instead has faith and lets "Providence" work things
out.

For all of Miss Watson's holy talk, she does not grasp
the concept of true Christian charity. Miss Watson struggled with the harmless trouble
Huck found himself in at the Widow Douglas' home. With this said, there is little doubt
that Miss Watson would have no sympathy or understanding if she knew that Huck planned
to free Jim—especially in that Jim is not only a slave, but her
runaway slave! It seems safer to assume that while the Widow Douglas might not be
thrilled with Huck's actions in that what he is doing is socially
wrong, she would at least be able to understand his motivation—his heartfelt desire to
see Jim free and happy. 

Huck's sense
of "Providence" is that of a kind and reliable spiritual power. Miss Watson's view is
that "Providence" is an angry, vengeful God. If she knew what Huck was planning, she
would believe her righteous indignation at Huck's behavior to be justified. Miss Watson
would not agree with Huck's understanding of
"Providence."

What role has Abigail Williams been playing in the proceedings?

You do not tell us what point in the proceedings your
question refers to, so I will just talk about her role in
general.

In some ways, Abigail Williams is driving the
whole witch hunt.  Without her, I imagine that there would be much less in the way of
trials.

I say this because Abby is the leader of the girls
who are at the center of the trials.  They follow her lead in claiming to see spirits,
etc.  The best example of this is when Mary Warren comes to claim that the girls have
been faking it.  Abby starts to talk about seeing a "bird" and all the girls go along
with her.

Given the Keynesian consumption function, how would a cut in income tax rates affect consumption? Explain your answer.

A cut in income tax rates would be one part of a classic
Keynesian fiscal policy approach to combatting a
recession.

Keynesians emphasize the importance of aggregate
demand in macroeconomics.  That means that, to them, an income tax cut is important
because it will increase aggregate demand.

It will do this
by increasing consumption.  A tax cut will give people a higher disposable income.  By
definition, looking at the equation for the consumption function, an increase in
disposable income makes for an increase in
consumption.

This is because C = a + c Yd
where

a is autonomous spending, c is mpc and Yd is
discretionary income.

If Yd goes up and everything else is
constant, C (consumption) must go up as well.

Describe the event that touched off the Watergate scandal and explain the White House's reaction to it.u.s history

Watergate was one of the biggest ever political scandals
in United States.  It included various illegal activities that helped President Richard
Nixon in presidential election of 1972. This scandal was particularly serious because it
represented attack on free and open elections, which is one of the main supporting
pillar of a democracy.

The illegal acts of Watergate
scandal involved burglary, telephone tapping, violations of campaign financing laws, use
of government agencies to harm political opponents. About 40 people were charged with
various crimes associated with this scandals, and most of these were convicted. It also
resulted in resignation of Nixon from presidency in
1974.

The scandal derived its name from the Watergate
complex of flats and office buildings in Washington,where police arrested five men for
breaking into the Democratic Party's national headquarters there. Later press found
evidence of White House aides helping to finance sabotage and spying operations against
candidates for the 1972 Democratic presidential
nomination.

Nixon claimed that he had no part in Watergate
break-in or covering it up. But the enquiry by a special prosecutor appointed for the
purpose, clearly established involvement of may people closely associated with Nixon. In
April 1974, Nixon was served with a subpoena (legal order) to furnish certain
information relating to this scandal. When Nixon disputed the right of the enquiry
proceeds to ask for such information the case was referred to Supreme Cour which ordered
Nixon to provide the materials.

In light of the Watergate
scandal experience, in 1974, Congress approved reforms in the financing of federal
election campaigns.

Regarding In Memoriam A. H. H. by Tennyson: What are the Victorian elements in this poem?

In Memoriam A. H. H. by Tennyson is a
vast work that reveals characteristics of Victorian poetic theory in myriad ways. A
small sampling here that will give guidance as to Tennyson's implementation of Victorian
poetics in In Memoriam is drawn from the early sections from I to
LXIII. To start with, two of the major characteristics of Victorian poetry that are
apparent within In Memoriam are the themes of love and nature,
shared with the preceding Romantic period but given a different
slant.

Love isn't necessarily idealized and "romanticized"
in the Victorian period; it may be shown with fangs and claws as in Browning's
"Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess," while nature is revealed as having a dark
side, not romanticized and inspirational. In keeping with this dark side, emblematic
nature is used, especially by Tennyson, to symbolize emotions; melancholy and Medieval
Gothic allusions take precedence over heroism and Classical
allusions.

Since the Victorian period was face-to-face with
new and unsettling science on all sides, Victorian poetry adds the new dimension of
psychological studies of poets and poetic personas and narrators. Partly as a reaction
to this science and partly as a reaction to the unwelcome rise in immoral and criminal
behavior accompanying the rush of urban immigration, Queen Victoria emphasized a
stringent return to Christian morality.

In keeping with
Queen Victoria's appeal, In Memoriam opens with a Christian appeal
instead of an appeal to the Classic Muse of poetry:

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Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom
we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone,
embrace,

The Christian appeal
continues and is seen again later, as in:

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Forgive what seem'd my sin in me;
What
seem'd my worth since I began;
For merit lives from man to man,
And
not from man, O Lord, to
thee.

Later, Sections III and
LVI have Medieval Gothic allusions and tones that are in contrast to Classical Greek
allusions.

O
Sorrow, cruel fellowship,
O Priestess in the vaults of Death,
O
sweet and bitter in a breath,
What whispers from thy lying
lip?

Section V highlights the
use of emblematic nature as a symbol for emotions:

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In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me
o'er,
Like coarsest clothes against the
cold:

Section LX illustrates
the prominence of melancholy, while Section LXIII shows nature, love, and melancholy
combined, with the addition of psychological study:

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Yet pity for a horse o'er-driven,
And
love in which my hound has part,
Can hang no weight upon my heart
In
its assumptions up to heaven;

And I am so much more than
these,
As thou, perchance, art more than I,
And yet I spare them
sympathy,
And I would set their pains at ease.

So
mayst thou watch me where I weep,..
.

In 'the importance of bing earnest,' what makes algy a dandy figure?i want to know also how wilde makes use of algy to show that people may be dandy

The Victorian Dandy is described as
a bachelor which has the following
characteristics:

a. Living above their
means

b. Over- preoccupied with aesthetics and fashion
rather than social responsibility

c. In Wilde's words "wake
up near 3 in the afternoon, dine at 5, then the opera, and go to bed near 3 in the
morning"

d. Surrounded by the likes, hating on anything
ugly, completely oblivious of human emotion.

Algernon
comprises ALL of those characteristics. Opulent, he has creditors running after him.
Excessive, his hunger and eating habits represent the way he lives life: Excessively and
always wanting more. Flamboyant, as he always expects the best champagne, the best
restaurants, and always dresses to the part. Immoral, as he leads a double life and does
not mind meddling in that of others. Fascinating, because he simply admits it and does
not care.

Post Note: Oscar Wilde was a
fanatic of the ideal of the Victorian dandy, and for this reason he ensured that there
was a dandy in most of his works:

In The Picture
of Dorian Gray, the dandy takes the shape of Lord Henry
Wooton

In A Woman of No Importancethe
dandy is Lord Illingworth.

In An Ideal
Husband, the dandy is Lord Goring.

Hope this
helps!

How do you think the sniper feels about what he is doing?im talking about the book the sniper by liam o'flaherty

In my opinion, he is pretty ambivalent about what he is
doing.  By that, I mean that he cannot really make up his mind.  At times I think he is
fine with what he is doing, at times I think he is not.

I
think he is fine with what he is doing, for example, when he kills the woman who has
been informing.  He would not have needed to do that and no one would have known if he
had not.  So he must have done it because he really approved of what he was
doing.

But then after he shoots the other sniper, he gets
all freaked out and feels remorse.  That makes it clear that he doesn't always approve
of what he's doing.

And I imagine that at the end of the
story he's pretty unhappy with it...

Why did the US enter WWI and what effect did its entry have?

The US had supplied weapons to the Allies exclusively
during the war, to the tune of several billion dollars worth.  The German sinking of the
Lusitania in 1915 was largely due to the fact that German spies had
reported there were arms shipments on board. So one has to say that American support of
the Allied Powers with weapons shipments was one reason why we eventually entered the
war.

I think the situation in 1917 was actually closer than
the above post suggests, which was one of the factors leading the US into
war.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 had given the Germans
victory on the Eastern Front with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, allowing the Kaiser to
concentrate his entire army on the Western Front, which had stalemated into bloody
trench warfare with both side bled white.  A final offensive by a reinforced German army
might capture Paris and end the war for good.  This was a real possibility when the US
came in on the Allied side.  In fact, one of the major effects of our entry into the war
not yet discussed here was the American Army's role in breaking up that much of that
last offensive at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood.

The US
had supplied weapons to the Allies exclusively during the war, to the tune of several
billion dollars worth.  The German sinking of the Lusitania in 1915
was largely due to the fact that German spies had reported there were arms shipments on
board. So one has to say that American support of the Allied Powers with weapons
shipments was one reason why we eventually entered the
war.

The second to last link below refers to Chateau
Thierry, which was also called the Second Battle of the Marne.

In Chapter 10, why do people laugh when John calls the director "my father" ?in chapter 10 of Brave New World, Linda and John come in the room....

In Huxley's Brave New World's  a
return to Chapter 3 will provide clarification as in this chapter, Mustapha Mond, the
Resident Controller for Europe and one of the ten World Controllers sits down on a bench
beside the Director who speaks to children, who have been cavorting in sexual games.  He
tells the children that the old world did not allow people to take things "easily," it
did not allow them to be "sane, virtuous, happy":

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What with mothers and lovers, what with the
prhibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the tempatations and the lonely
remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the
uncertainties and the poverty--they were forced to feel strongly.  And, feeling
strongly...how could they be
stable?

The word
mother becomes obscene and dirty for these children as it is
associated with pain, fever, groaning,--emotion--old age and poverty. Mond tells
them,

"Our
ancestors were so stupid and shor-sighted that when the first reformers came along and
offered to deliver them from those horrible emotions, they wouldn't have anything to do
with them....

"And home was as squalid psychically as
physically.  Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of
tightly packed life, reeking with emotion.  What suffocating intimacies, what danterou,
insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group!  Maniacally, the
mother brooded over her children...lke a cat over its kittens...Yes, you may well
shudder!"

The idea of parents
is funny in a "scatological" way.  If someone calls another "Father," it is actually
an deprecating joke since the Trobriands conception has done away with natural
childbirth.  Nobody has ever heard of a father or
mother, words whose connotations are humorous in a "bathroom joke"
sort of way, and smutty.  However, there is nothing humorous about old age which is
anathema to the conditioned citizens of the Brave New World. Linda's appearance is
repulsive; she reminds them of the dying people at the hospital.

What are Roman Jakobson's main points in "From Linguistics to Poetics"?

In short, Jakobson is attempting to show how a linguistic
expert should study poetics. 

Poetics, of course, is about
verbage and not about the rhyme scheme or makeup of poetic lines.  Linguistics, of
course, is the science behind that verbage, so poetics and linguistics merge in this
way.  Further, because linguistics is truly a science of words, literary criticism (or
the judgement of a piece of literature as "good" or "bad") has no power here.  Instead,
what is preferred is objective analysis, not opinion due to the depth of
components. 

Jakobson delves deeper into linguistics in
this text than I have seen in any of his other works.  There are further points Jakobson
makes in his text, specifically about "synchrony and diachrony" as well as "ideation and
emotiveness" and the survey of language in question.  In short, it is a perfect read for
a person who wants to be well versed in the science of
linguistics.

Shaw's denounce social snobbery and class distinction in Pygmalion?

Shaw denounced social snobbery and class distinction in
Pygmalion primarily by presenting the aristocracy as people who can "be made" and can be
spoofed by just imitating their mannerisms, and by pretending to be bigger than you are.
In other words, "anyone", even a nobody, can pass as an
aristocrat.

The making of a peasant girl with a cockney
accent into a posh duchess is in itself the central idea of the story, where Shaw
admittedly mocks the effrontery and silliness of it all. Even the fact that the girl
herself in the beginning was trying to rid herself of her accent, and willing to pay for
it, is a laughable action that reflects the people's mentality over the fashionable
society versus those who were humble and simple.

The use of
titles, the names used, the fact that there were "phonics" professors, Liza's father
becoming rich after (in the beginning) pitching fights over money- all these are symbols
of Shaw's bringing down the high airs of the aristocrats, showing that they may not be
as unique as they see themselves.

In "The Crucible" is John Proctor a hero or do you see him as foolish when he might easily have saved his life?

This depends on your own personal opinion, but let's look
at some different angles from the play itself.  At the end of the play, Reverend Hale is
going to all of the prisoners and telling them that not confessing is committing the sin
of pride, at the cost of their own lives.  And, this can be seen in John.  He tells his
wife at the end that one reason he hasn't confessed is because "it's hard to give a lie
to dogs."  He admits that he doesn't want to give his accusers something that they want,
because he doesn't like them.  So, that is pride, or foolishness on his
part.

On the other hand, he is a hero in the sense that he
doesn't lie, and refuses to defame his friends when he almost confesses.  They want him
to name others when he signs his confession, and he refuses; that is the right choice. 
Also, they want to post his confession on the church door; he knows that this will ruin
his children's lives--they will forever be known as the sons of a witch who sold out his
friends.  And, when he finally rescinds his confession and goes to the gallows, he feels
good about himself for the first time in forever.  He says, "I do think I see some shred
of goodness in John Proctor."  He feels that one act of integrity wiped out previous
sins.

So, it can be argued either way, and  I hope that
those thoughts helped a bit; good luck!

What is a good thesis statement for Oliver Twist and how can it be defended?

I think that you could also look at the use of disguise
and misrepresentation in the novel. The most obvious is Oliver, the "twist" who is
mistaken for rags when he actually comes from riches. The Monk's perpetuate this
mistaken identity in order to serve their own aims of claiming Oliver's inheritance for
themselves. Nancy pretends to be Oliver's sister by putting on middle class clothes in
order to get Oliver back to Fagin. Clothes as a means of identifying social class are
important. Oliver is stripped of his clothes and pout into pauper clothes. If I were
writing a thesis for a paper on this work, I would consider looking at the outward
representations of class and status as displayed by clothes and manner of speaking, and
the way that these "disguises" can and are used to meet individual
desires.

Dickens, in fact, uses this theme as a means of
satirizing class structure in Victorian England. You could even gop on to look at other
class representations that are symbolized by dress, such as the way in which the Fagin
boys almost worship handkerchiefs which they like to steal. These are symbols of
affluence. If you carry a handkerchief, you are assumed to be a member of the upper
class. If you wear the clothes of a workhouse person, you are seen as a pauper. Again,
this is a way Dickens uses outside appearances as a means of denoting class differences
from the perspective that people are viewed by society and judged by society by the
clothes that they wear.

I am doing a project on how to be safe in your car. any tips please give me some tips or ideas and please give me a catchy title

Two title ideas first:

"More
Careful Than You Think You Need To Be"

"Assume Everybody
Else Is Crazy"

The above titles are also my tips on safe
driving. First, always drive more carefully than you think you need to. Never speed.
Never drive under the influence of any chemical. Don't worry if the guy behind you is
showing his impatience; pull over and let him pass. Don't listen to anything on the
radio or other device that demands your attention. Never talk on a cell phone while
driving. The problem with cell phones and driving is not that one is using a free hand;
the problem is that when you talk on a cell phone when driving you are not paying full
attention to driving. Last two points: never be in a hurry; leave plenty of time to get
where you have to go and always know where you are going before you get into the
car.

So much for what you can control... now about other
people on the road. Although it's probably not true, assume everybody else behind the
wheel is either a terrible, dangerous driver, a newbie to driving, or completely nuts.
That way, you will always be understanding, courteous and warily defensive of all the
other cars on the road. Keep a good distance from any car in front of you and, if you
can, to your right and to your left. Make sure to leave at least 10 feet from you and
the car in front of you for every 10 mph you are moving. That way, you'll have enough
room to stop. And remember to be extra extra careful at night and in bad weather. Always
be prepared for the unexpected.

Lastly: Be ever vigilant
and make sure your car is in good working order, especially the brakes, that your tires
are properly filled, that you have enough fuel for the journey, and that you are wide
awake. If you you are feeling even in the least bit sleepy, pull over
immediately.

Outside of being in an unmoving car parked in
your driveway or at the curb, these pointers should keep you safe. I said should because
no matter how safely you drive, some things can come at you out of absolutely nowhere.
It's rare, but it happens and no one need be to blame.

According to the law of conservation of mass,mass can neither be created nor be destroyed.so why every equation is not a balanced equation?for...

I believe you are talking about balancing of chemical
equation. When a chemical equation is not balanced it means that that is is not
representing the reality correctly. An incorrect equation may or may not conform the law
of conservation of mass. It makes no sense in drawing conclusion about validity of law
of conservation of mass or of any other law based on an incorrect
equation.

Taking specifically the chemical equation
referred in the question, that is

Mg + O2 -->
MgO

The equation is incorrect because it implies that 1
atom of Mg combining with 2 atoms of oxygen will produce 1 molecule of MgO, which
contains 1 atom of magnesium (Mg) and 1 atom of oxygen (O). Thus the left hand side of
equation has 2 atoms of oxygen while right hand side has only 1 atom of oxygen.
Obviously this equation is incorrect. To make the equation correct, we will need to
balance it in such a way that atoms of each of magnesium and oxygen are same on both the
side. We do this by changing the equation to:

2Mg + O2
--> 2MgO

Please note that when a chemical reaction
is represented in the form of a chemical equation, the equation must be balanced. An
imbalanced chemical equation is as improper and incorrect as word written with wrong
spelling or a sentence with incorrect grammar.Imbalanced equations should not be used of
representing chemical reactions.

Transcribe phonemically the following words indicating primary stress.Engineering, appointment, presidential, fundamental, examination, conversion,...

English words can have variable stress depending upon the
variety of English begin spoken. While there are many varieties of natively spoken
English in the world, such as in India and Malaysia, I'll focus on American English and
English English, which now and then have some interesting stress differences.
Interestingly enough, the stress differences extend to sentence stress as well, to the
extend that, on occasion, a perfectly good English English sentence will seem to have no
or a confused meaning to an American listener solely because of sentence stress
differences, and vice versa.

The first word in your list
"engineering" has the same stress in both American and English English: engi 'neering,
with a phonemic difference: UK /ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪə.rɪŋ/; US /ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪr.ɪŋ/. Similarly with
"appointment," which is ap 'pointment /əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/. For the third in a row, the
pronunciations of "presidential" are the same for both: presi 'dential
/ˈprez.ɪ.dənt/.

Well this isn't a very exciting list yet.
"Fundamental" is also the same in both: funda 'mental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/. And again, for
"examination, both are exami 'nation /ɪgˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/. "Conversion" for both is con
'version /kənˈvɜː.ʃən/. Last chance: "Opportunity" is oppor 'tunity /ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t ̬i/
in American English as well as in English English, although there is a phonemic
difference; UK /ˌɒp.əˈtjuː.nə.ti/; US /ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t ̬i/. And there you have
it.

[American English pronunciation from title="Dictionary.com"
href="http://dictionary.reference.com/">Dictionary.com; English English
pronunciation and IPA spelling from href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/">Cambridge Dictionaries
Online.]

What are two internal and external conflicts of the main character?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A common criticism of Charles Dickens's A Tale
of Two Cities is that many of the characters are undeveloped.  Even Sydney
Carton, considered the main character, lacks the introspection that is frequent in such
important characters.  In addition, the reader knows little of his past.  However, as
the main character, he does experience conflicts.

EXTERNAL
CONFLICTS

1.  As the "Jackal," Sydney is exploited by the
"Lion," C.J. Stryver who uses his brillant mind to win legal cases.  Stryver also mocks
Carton as he forces him to work long hours into the night.  In Chapter 5 of Book the
Second, Styrver ridicules Carton:

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'The old Sydney Carton of Shrewsbury
School....the old seesaw Sydney.  Upon one minute and down the next; now in spirits and
now in despondency.'

2.  In
Book the Third Sydney Carton comes into contact with the spy John Basard, whom he has
learned from Jerry Cruncher has used the alias of Roger Cly in England.  He is the
"witness" to Charles Darnay's purportedly treasonous remarks about the King.  Since
Jerry has told Carton that this spy faked his death as Cly, Carton uses this information
to coerce Basard, who is involved with the incarceration of the prisoners in France, to
allow him to switch places with Charles Darnay and allow Darnay to leave the
prison.

INTERNAL CONFLICTS

1. 
Sydney Carton is a man with great potential as he has a brillant mind.  But his
dissipation and self-deprecatory nature will not allow him to succeed.  Although he
loves Lucie, his feeling of inferiority regarding Charles Darnay prevent him from
competing for her love. After his evening with Darnay, Carton looks at him in a mirror
asking himself,

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'Do you particularly like the man?...why should
you particularly like a man who resembles you?  There is nothing in you to like; you
know that. (Bk.II,ch.4)

With
this sense of inferiority, Carton resigns himself to being allowed to be Lucie's
friend.

2.  This sense of lack of accomplishment in
life--"summoning no energy and purpose" as Stryver tells him--and his depression keep
Sydney from making anything of himself.  Disturbed that his life has been
worthless, Sydney seeks to achieve something worthwhile.  Thus, his act of sacrifice
will, he hopes, redeem his worthless life:

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'It is a far, far betting thing that I do, than I
have ever done....'

What literary devices are found in Chapter 21?

There are several examples of
foreshadowing found in Chapter 21 of To Kill a
Mockingbird. One comes when Reverend Sykes remarks to Scout
that

"I ain't
ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white
man..."

Reverend Sykes will
soon be proven correct. Another occurs when Scout watches the jury walk in. She notes
that no jury ever looks a convicted man in the eyes,

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... and when this jury came in, not one of them
looked at Tom Robinson.

A
personification occurs
when

• "the old courthouse clock suffered its
  preliminary
  strain..."

Similes
include

• "the courtroom was exactly the same as a
  cold February morning..."


• "it (the courtroom scene) was
  like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the
  trigger..."

What evidence does Atticus bring out that discredits Bob Ewell's story?

There are two pieces of evidence that discredit Bob Ewell
completely and they have to work together. First, Atticus shows that Bob Ewell is
left-handed, and Bob tries to show that he can use both hands, but it's too late. Then,
when he asks Tom to rise after Mayella pointed him out, the courtroom sees the other
necessary piece of evidence: Tom's left arm is 12 inches shorter than his
right.

This proves it would have been impossible to leave
the injuries on Mayella that were there. It also leaves the question on the table, if
not Tom who? The fact that Bob was left-handed proved that it was possible he beat his
daughter because the person who hurt her led exclusively with his
left.