Please consider the following question from To Kill a Mockingbird:Scout says, "the full meaning of the night events hit [her] and she began...

She has seen her father at his best, at his moments of
greatest challenge. This is what the night in front of the mob was like, as it was when
Atticus was shooting the mad dog. These were moments of Atticus' life that she didn't
know would exist. Each one revealed parts of his character. She learns of Atticus'
humility and humbleness through these experiences. She also learns of his strengths. She
learns of how the town depends and relies on Atticus to protect and defend them
physically, emotionally and morally. Atticus is always the man who for the town stands
in between good and evil.

This time, she is realizing that
he has been the one to deal with defending Tom Robinson's trial, knowing that it was
ill-founded. She is realizing that no matter how hard Atticus works, it feels like
little achievement. This comes very clear when Tom is
shot.

Alexandra too realizes that Atticus can never do
enough for this town and it kills her to know that.

According to Douglass, what is the hypocrisy of the internal slave trade?from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass book

Douglass does not talk about this in his autobiography. 
Instead, he talks about it in the speech he gave in Rochester, New York on the Fourth of
July 1852.

In this speech, he says that the American view
of the internal slave trade is hypocritical because Americans think that it is in some
way different than the external slave trade.

He points out
that people say bringing new slaves from Africa is horrible and that the US spends a lot
of money preventing this trade.  But, he says, there's no difference between that and
selling slaves within the US.

So he says it's hypocritcal
to criticize one kind of slave trade and condone another.

What are the two types of reflex actions?

Reflex actions are automatic or involuntary movement of
living organisms provoked by a sensory stimulus. For example, will if a person
accidentally touches a very hot object, he or she will jerk away without thinking about
what action to take. Reflex actions aer of two types - unconditioned reflexes and
conditioned reflexes. The unconditioned reflex are the reflexes that are part of the
basic bodily functions which are not dependent on individuals past experiences with a
particular type of stimulus. For example the pupil of our eyes automatically expand in
darkness and contract in light.

Conditioned reflexes, in
contrast are reflexes, which an individual learns from previous experiences with similar
stimulus. These reflexes work by individuals learning to associated the stimulus with
something else. For example, a dog may begin to salivate with smell of food because the
dog has learnt to associate the smell with the food.

In a dystopian film, which is better, truth, or happiness? In dystopian films like 1948, THX, Soylent Green, The Matrix, War of The Worlds, etc.,...

Unfortunately I didn't realise that I had to move this
question to a different group, so here is my answer
again!

Very interesting question! I think your proposed
thesis statement would be an excellent one if you look at a variety of dystopian films
and consider how this conflict is presented and resolved. Certainly from my point of
view the overwhelming verdict from dystopian films would be that truth is better than
happiness. Think of how unaware humans are presented, for example, in films
like The Matrix. It is clearly suggested that it is much better to
be aware and fighting for your life rather than ignorantly happy and not really living
life at all. In all dystopias, both film and novels, this seems to be the clear message
- yes, you can live a happy life, but the protagonists of these dystopian worlds
strongly suggest that in these world you are not actually "living" a "life" at all, as
that happiness is only achievable through the destruction of what we think of as "life"
in the first place.

In "The Raven" how does the speaker try to comfort himself about the strange events in his study?getting at meaning

This poem begins with sorrow,
then moves into fright and
terror as the late night visitor freaks out the nearly
napping narrator. Think about that time between sleep and wakefulness when you aren't
exactly sure what's going on. When you hear a noise or see something, your mind stirs in
wonder about what just happened.

By about the seventh and
eighth stanzas, we begin to hear comforting language about
the events occuring in the house. He finds himself studying this bird that just sits
there. He notes it turned his "sad fancy into smiling." As he continued he uses words
like marvelled and blessed.

Finally, he combines comfort
with a pensive attitude in the verse:

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But the raven still beguiling all my soul into
smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then
upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking, Fancy unto fancy, think what this
ominous bird of yore... meant in
croaking 'Nevermore.'

We can
tell he is in a comfy chair, just sitting and wondering what this bird meant by the
phrase he keeps uttering: nevermore. He seems to enjoy the wonder of pressing his mind
to come to a conclusion about this. There is indeed something wonderful in moving to the
answer, the journey toward the answer, but not the answer itself. This is the moment of
confusion it seems to me that he finds himself comfortable in.

Give a detailed 5 paragraph comparison of greasers and Socs in the novel, The Outsiders. Include specific examples from the novel. Plus answer...

You'll have to write the five paragraph essay yourself,
but I'll be happy to help you with your
questions.

THE
HEATER.  A heater is, of course, slang for a gun. We know
that Dally possesses one, and Pony and Johnny will return it to him after they return
home. It foreshadows Dally's own death, when he commits "suicide by cop" by waving an
unloaded gun at the police.

BEGINNING
& END.  The beginning of the story
starts with the line "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of
the movie house..." The last chapter of the novel ends the same way. We find in the end
that the story we are reading is Pony's essay for his English
class.

LOYALTY.  (1) Johnny
uses his knife to save Pony from drowning by the Socs. (2) Johnny follows Pony into the
burning church; Dally follows later to save them. (3) Pony helps Dally during the
rumble, and then Dally helps to fight off a Soc who is beating
Pony.

LOSS.  (1) The Curtis
brothers, particularly Pony, mourn the loss of their parents, who were killed in an auto
accident. (2) The boys mourn the deaths of Johnny and Dally. (3) Cherry mourns the loss
of her boyfriend, Bob. (4) Soda misses his girlfriend, who has moved to
Florida.

What is the 7-word summary for chapters 11-15 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Well, I don't know if this is the
seven-word summary you're looking for, but here is one summary
statement of those five chapters:  Jem and Scout break through some
stereotypes.

Before this summer, Jem and Scout have been
fairly well insulated from some of the world's harsher realities.  They see different
classes and different races of people, but they have not really had to see some of the
ugliness that happens when people start acting on their prejudices and their
ignorances.  In each of these chapters, the kids learn some new reality about living in
this time and place.

Chapter 11 is a revelation to Jem,
especially, about stereotypes and courage.  He realizes Mrs. DuBose is not just a mean,
cranky old woman; instead he sees her courage as she weans herself from morphine even
though she has no need to do so.

Chapter 12 is eye-opening
for both kids, as they attend church with Calpurnia.  They've assumed all black people
are like Cal and can read; instead, their eyes are opened to the truth and the beauty of
"linin'."  They encounter a rude, low-class black woman, as well--a reminder that
boorish behavior is not specific to race.

Chapter 13 is
trouble for both kids, but primarily for Scout, as Aunt Alexandra has come to town with
the intention of turning her into a stereotypical  "lady."  For both of them, this is a
term associated with corsets and teas and being "proper."  Aunt Alexandra tries to
instill upon both kids the importance of 'family' and 'heritage,' but her efforts fall
flat.  Atticus finally tells them to ignore the whole thing--the concept of the
stereotypical family legacy, tradition, and heritage is not the only important thing
about who a person is.

Chapter 14 represents a change in
the relationship between the siblings.  Until now, Jem had been the stereotypical
defacto "boss of her."  In this chapter, Scout has come of age and now only has to obey
her older brother if he can make her do so.

In chapter 15,
Scout and Jem (and now Dill) are faced with the ignorance of blind prejudice.  They're
too naive to see what the gathering at the jail was really about, but Scout broke
through by treating this clan of Cumminghams as if they were neighbors and friends. 
This is the very attitude which diffuses the potentially violent
scene.

These are pivitol "coming of age" chapters for them
both as they are faced with diverse stereotypes, and it is much needed as they prepare
to face what's ahead of them in the days and weeks to come.

What happened to Syme? How is his fate connected to the secret O'Brien reveals to Winston and Julia?

Syme was eliminated by the party because he was
intelligent. The author says,

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“One of these days, thought Winston with deep
conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent, he sees too clearly and
plainly. The party does not like such people. One day he will
disappear…”

After a while,
Syme went missing and Winston was sure that Syme had been vaporized because not only did
he fail to show up at work, but his name was also missing in the chess committee list of
which he was part. After O’Brien cunningly affirms the belief of Winston and Julia in
the brotherhood and its founder, the two pledge their allegiance to the Brotherhood and
state that they would go to any length to advance the course of the Brotherhood in
fighting the Party, even commit murder and suicide. O’Brien, who was an inner party
member, cautioned them that if the Thought Police found them out the Brotherhood would
not intervene and they would have to face the inevitable consequence. In the end after
their release from the Ministry of Love, Winston awaits the bullet that will extinguish
him.

How does observing another audience (Theseus, Hippolyta, lovers) help understand the relationship between audience and performers (rude...

When you observe a play, you may or may not understand how
well the characters know one another through the script alone. When they listen or
comment (unbenownst to the other performers), you might learn subtle insights into the
true feelings of certain characters as opposed to the feelings they express openly to
the same characters. If there is an undertone of strife or hypocrisy, you can gain
understanding through the reactions of characters who are listening in on other
characters.

I am not certain if this answers the question
you intended. Hope it helps!

What were Napoleon's foreign policies?Information needed for an essay. Thanks!

You mean besides conquering everything in sight?  Outside
of literally working to bring the whole of Europe under his rule, Napoleon generally
used any means he could, including his relatives, marriage to key royalty in other
countries, and threats to manage his neighbors and
allies.

One notable policy of Napoleons was the
re-institution of slavery in the French colonies and subsequently was defeated in Haiti
as his expeditionary force was unable to contend with an army of slaves.  This, some
speculate, led him to decide that trying to maintain some of these colonies was not
worth the expense and he then looked favorably upon the sale of the Louisiana Purchase
to the United States.

What are Travis' character traits?

The first and most remarkable character trait of Travis is
his trustworthiness.  His father feels comfortable leaving him in charge of the work of
the farm and the homestead, and Travis succeeds admirably in being able to take care of
everything entrusted to him.

Another might be his quick
ability to adapt according to the situation, sometimes for good sometimes not.  If you
look at his reaction to Old Yeller's death, he is at first unwilling to bond with a new
animal, unwilling to form that attachment only to have it broken again.  But he is also
willing to listen to his father and to try to "participate in life" rather than simply
observing it.

One other trait you could point to is his
willingness to work hard.  You might just contend that it was a necessity for boys at
the time, but Travis appears to be particularly willing to put incredible efforts into
his work and takes great pride in it.

What were the different outcomes of European interactions with Africa, India and the Americas?European's had interaction with many countries such...

To me, the impact of Europeans on these areas were quite
different.  The Americas came out the worst, especially in North America.  Africa was
hurt badly by colonialism, but not as badly as the Americas.  India was relatively
unharmed (but only relatively).

India came out pretty well
because it was colonized by only a few Europeans with much of the work (even of
governing) being done by Indians.  So the Indians kept their country and much self
rule.

Africa was hurt badly by having so many people taken
as slaves (West Africa) or by having people subjugated (South
Africa).

North America's natives were essentially all
killed, which is why I say the impact on them was the worst.

List at least five images or events from Odysseus's battle with the suitors.

In The Odyssey Book XXI there is the
following weapons imagery:

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the bow and with the iron
axes

the quiver, with the many deadly
arrows

Telemachus girded on his sword, grasped
his spear...

four shields, eight spears, and
four brass helmets with horse-hair
plumes.

Then there's the
great animal imagery and metaphors for how the suitors
die:

As
eagle-beaked, crook-taloned vultures from the mountains swoop down on the
smaller birds that cower in flocks upon the ground, and kill them, for they
cannot either fight or fly, and lookers on enjoy the sport- even so did
Ulysses and his men fall upon the suitors and smite them on every side. They
made a horrible groaning as their brains were being battered in,
and the ground seethed with their blood.

And this
choice nugget:

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he found them all lying in the dust and weltering
in their blood. They were like
fishes which fishermen have netted out of the sea, and
thrown upon the beach to lie gasping for water till the heat of the sun
makes an end of them. Even so were the suitors lying all huddled up one
against the
other.

And then there's this
one:

the
corpses bespattered with blood and filth like a lion that has
just been devouring an ox, and his
breast and both his cheeks are all bloody, so that he is a fearful sight; even
so was Ulysses besmirched from head to foot with gore. When she saw all the
corpses and such a quantity of blood, she was beginning to cry out for
joy

Taken together, Homer's
imagery here is bloody, vengeful, and anthropomorphic.  Ordained by the gods, Odysseus'
revenge re-establishes him and Telemachus to their King and Prince statuses and reduces
the suitors to animals helplessly awaiting slaughter.  Not only is this one of Odysseus'
more cunning tricks, but it echoes the theme of guest-host relations.  Just as Odysseus
and him men were invasive guests with the Cyclops and the Cicones, so too are the
suitors punished for their arrogance.

To what extend does suffering lead to insight for the characters in Hamlet? Claudius Hamlet Ophelia Laertes GertudeRephrased questions: To...

The big gun of insight gained in Shakespeare's
Hamlet is, of course, Hamlet.

His
father's death and mother's hasty remarriage lead him to melancholy and depression, and
a sense that existence is not inherently meaningful.  The revelation by the Ghost that
King Hamlet was assassinated by Claudius leads him to rage, but also to the weighing of
evidence against Claudius, and to the thought that evil can disguise itself in order to
do us harm.    The speech by the 1 Player leads him to despair, when he compares his
inaction to the player's appearance of great emotion, but also leads him to a concrete
plan whereby he can determine Claudius's guilt with certainty.  The discovery of
Yorick's skull leads him to long for the past, but also to once again contemplate
existence.  The death of Ophelia leads him to proclaim his love for her for the first
time in the play. 

Hamlet is a thinker, and suffering leads
him to thinking.  He particularly is led to the contemplation of existence.  And what is
his specific insight concerning existence?  That existence isn't worth the trouble,
except for the fact that we don't know what lies on the other side of death; that, great
or small (figuratively speaking), we all end up rotting in the grave, eaten by
worms.     

What characteristics do the underdogs have in common? Candy, Curley's wife, and Crooks?Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

In John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and
Men, the characters Candy, Curley's wife, and Crooks are all social pariahs,
isolated by some shortcoming.  For old Candy it is age and disability, for Crooks, it is
his race, and for Curley's wife, it is her gender and social
status.

Having been injured, Candy is unable to work
outside the bunkhouse.  Like the old dog that he owns, he stays in one spot and sweeps
and straightens it.  Crooks, too, stays at night alone in the barn with the mules,
having no human company.  And, Curley's wife is isolated, too, as their are no women
with whom she could socialize.  As a consequence, she wishes to talk with the men, but
they reject her as dangerous since she is married to the son of the ranch's
owner. 

Each character voices his/her anxiety. Crooks tells
Candy and Lennie,

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A guy needs somebody--to be near him....Aguy goes
nuts if he ain't got nobody.  Don't make no difference who the guy is,  long's he's with
you.

 Candy worries that the
ranch owner will get rid of him when he is no longer useful. He remarks
to Crooks,

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Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. 
Jus' som'thin' that was his. Somethin' he could live on and there couln't nobody throw
him off of it.

Curley's wife,
too, expresses her dismay at being alone. Standing in the doorway, she tells Candy,
Crooks, and Lennie,

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Ever'body out doing' som'pin'.  Ever'gody! 
An'what am I doin'?  Standin' her talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs...an' likin' it
because they ain't nobody
else.

Lonely and insecure and
isolated, the men and Curley's wife share lives of "quiet desperation" as Henry David
Thoreau once remarked.

What are some examples of dark imagery in Macbeth?

In William Shakespeare's Macbeth the
ambition for power leads to the dark and mysterious realm of
witchcraft, murders, insomonia, and madness.  And, the imagery used to inspire the
experiences of darkness and evil are abundant.

Certainly,
the weather connotes sinister acts. For instance, the play opens with "fog and filthy
air" as the three witches stir their cauldron and the captain describes the actions of
the dauntless Macbeth:

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For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that
name--

Disdaining fortune, with his brandished
steel,

Which smoked with
bloody execution.
(1.2.16-19)

And, throughout
the play there are storms, dark castles in which the candles are out (2.2,5), and
murders in the night. As Lady Macbeth prepares to "unsex" herself in order to encourage
Macbeth in his deadly deeds, she asks that heaven not "Peep through the blanket of the
dark" (1.53)

Enthralled by the prophecies of the
"instruments of darkness" as they win him with "honest trifles," Macbeth spends many a
night of "curtained sleep" (2.2.51).

When Macduff and
Lennox arrive at Macbeth's castle in Act II, Scene 3,  Lennox describes the night as
"unruly," speaking of confusion.  He describes the earth as shaking the livelong
night."  Ironically, Macbeth agrees, "'twas a rough night"
(2.3.63).

The many dark images of night and its
predominance in the play clearly suggest that evil
abounds:

That
darkness does the face of earth entomb.
(2.4.

Banquo says in Act III
that he

must
become a borrower of the
night

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For a dark hour or
twain.(3.1.27-28)

And, as he
sends his murderers to kill Banquo, Macbeth comments,

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Good things of day begin to droop and drowse
(3.3.53)

In Act IV, Malcolm,
determined to return to Scotland tells Macduff, "The night is long that never finds the
day" (4.3.240). And, so it is for Macbeth whose many nights of murder have finally
caused the madness of Lady Macbeth as well as that of Macbeth
himself. 

Atticus asks Mr. Ewell if he called a doctor for Mayella. What point is he trying to make?

This is from Chapter 17 in the
book.

What Atticus is trying to do here is to prove that
Bob Ewell knew exactly how hurt Mayella was.  He knew exactly what had happened to her
because he was the one who beat her.  He beat her after seeing her hugging Tom
Robinson.

If he had really thought that Robinson had beaten
and raped her, he would have called for a doctor to find out how badly she was hurt. 
But he did not need to do that because he already knew.  That is what Atticus is trying
to show.

1. What in the chapter “The Shell and The Glasses” is the human meaning of Jack’s raid?

Jack and his group do not take the conch from Piggy.  In
fact, Piggy is holding the conch when he dies:  "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow
from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to
exist."  

When Jack and his group first raid Ralph's camp
earlier in Chapter 9, they take fire.  In the subsequent chapter (The Shell and the
Glasses), they take Piggy's glasses.  It's important to note that Jack does not want or
need Piggy's conch.  The conch represents a democratic order, a type of organization in
which anyone can have a say, a voice.  Jack rules his tribe as a dictator.  He makes all
the rules.  Unlike Ralph, he does not seek input from the group when decisions are
made.  During this raid, Piggy mistakenly believes that Jack wants the conch.  However, 
Jack really wants Piggy's glasses.  When he has these in his possession, "he was the
chief now in truth."  His group is completely independent of Ralph's because now he can
make fire on his own. 

Piggy's glasses do to some extent
symbolize intelligence and rational thinking.  But when Jack has them, they represent a
means to create fire for cooking, and later in Chapter 12 fire becomes a weapon.  Jack
rules by whim, not rationality, so when Jack holds the glasses, their previous
association with intelligence is lost. Now they represent a means to satisfy more primal
instincts.  This raid is particularly important in that Jack  assumes complete dominance
on the island.  With glasses in hand, he does not need Ralph or Piggy.  He has the
island under his control.  He can  have Winfred tortured at will; he can hunt as he
pleases; he can have feasts; he can kill whomever he deems his
enemy. 

Why does Billy's grandfather need a brace and bit to catch the raccoon in Where the Red Fern Grows?

A brace and bit is a hand tool used to drill holes.
Grandpa knows a trick that is effective in catching raccoons, and all he needs to do it
is a brace and a bit.

When Billy gets his pups, he realizes
he needs a coon skin to teach them to hunt, but, try as he might, he cannot catch a
coon. Grandpa tells him about an old trick he used as a child that rarely failed in
helping him get one of the ring-tailed animals. Grandpa gets a brace and a bit about an
inch and a half in diameter. He tells Billy to go down by the river where the coons are
known to live, and drill a hole about six inches deep in a log. At the bottom of the
log, Billy needs to put something shiny, like a piece of tin, and then, around the hole
made by the brace and bit, he should pound nails in about an inch apart and at a slant,
so that the points stick out about halfway down the hole. The raccoon will then be drawn
by the shiny tin, and, curious, stick his hand in to grab it. Because his hand will be
closed around the piece of tin, it will be larger than when it was thrust into the hole,
and because of the nails, the raccoon will be unable to get his hand out. It will not
occur to the raccoon to let go of the tin so that he can extricate his hand; he will be
trapped, and Billy will have his raccoon.

Billy follows his
grandpa's instructions carefully, and makes fourteen traps. For the first week, he
catches nothing, and is angry and discouraged, thinking his grandpa had been fooling
him. Billy's father, however, points out that perhaps Billy has left too much of his
scent around the trap area. Sure enough, after about a week, the scent has worn off, and
Billy catches a large coon, "trapped by his own curiosity" (Chapter
7).

Does the popularity of Coram Boy when published (2000) relate to contemporary thoughts about childhood or does it not relate to social views?

Very interesting question. Of course, the bleak
dog-eat-dog world that we are presented with in the grim pages of Coram
Boy is very different from the situation in our contemporary world today. It
does paint a very despairing view of childhood where children are dispensable and
terribly fragile. In this hard-hitting book we are very soon presented with pictures of
tremendous violence and neglect as Otis, the so called "Coram Man", collects
illegitimate children and as often as not kills them soon
after.

He
nodded curtly at Meshak. "Get the space. There's a good ditch just here. We'll dig them
in," he jerked his head in the direction of the panniers strapped to the train of mules.
"I don't want to take them into Gloucester."

... Nothing to
deep or careful. There was a lot of water. Just dig a hole deep enough to submerge the
bundles. Foxes would do the
rest...

I think in a sense
the reason why we are presented with such shocking images towards the beginning of the
book is to present a sharp contrast between the conditions that children today have to
live in and the conditions of children just a few centuries ago. Jamilia Gavin, in her
introduction, seems to indicate that she wrote this book to highlight the conditions of
children in this time but then also to capture the story of one man who was key in
changing this perception of children:

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It was often entirely a mater of luck if a child
was kindly and lovingly reared, and it was to redress this that Captain Thomas Coram
opened his hospital in 1741. It was people like him who gradually changed the whole
perception of child care and who touched the conscience of the
nation.

Thus, I don't think
this novel relates to contemporary thoughts about childhood, it rather sets out to show
where our ideas about childhood have emerged from and how they have changed so radically
thanks to the work of individuals such as Thomas Coram.

Why did the Vietnamese reject French rule?The Vietnam War

Just as the American colonies fought for independence from
Great Britain and African nations finally emerged from their own colonial past, the
Vietnamese fought the French so that they could also enjoy native rule without outside
interference. The Vietnamese (as well as other French Indochina colonies Cambodia and,
later, Laos) had been fighting for their independence in one way or another since France
took control in 1859. After the Japanese surrendered control back to the French
following World War II, the Viet Minh--a communist group led by Ho Chi Minh and formerly
supported by the United States--declared Viet Nam an independent state. The Viet Minh
were initially driven out of Hanoi, but Ho began a guerilla movement that initiated the
First Indochina War. When the communists took over China, China officially recognized
the Viet Minh government and began to actively support them militarily. The French were
eventually driven out for good following the disastrous siege and surrender of Dien Ben
Phu in 1954.

During World War II, the Vichy
French--Frenchmen who collaborated with the Germans following the fall of
France--actually continued nominal control over French Indochina during the Japanese
occupation. The Vichy French government in Indochina cooperated with the Japanese until
Germany fell in 1945; when the Vichy French began negotiations with the Free French, the
Japanese siezed control. A famine that resulted in the starvation deaths of more than
one million Indochinese spurred the first revolt by the Viet Minh, who advocated
rebellion by the starving Vietnamese. The Viet Minh's stance gained great support from
the people, and when the French attempted to regain control following the war, Ho Chi
Minh's popularity grew to new heights.

How is marriage viewed as a social institution in The Importance of Being Earnest?i want to know all details about my question

Marriage is viewed as a social institution because that is
precisely what it was in the 19th century. In those days women would enter marriage by
offering a dowry in the form of money or properties to a potential husband. Often
families did this with other families who had lots of money. If you didn't have it, your
chances of obtaining any benefits from marrying money and property became lower and
lower. This also meant that your social standing will come tumbling down: You would not
be admitted in other homes as a visitor, people will talk about you, and you may end up
joining a nunnery or as a spinster, which was worst than being a prostitute
even.

In the case of Ernest when Lady Bracknell sat down to
ask him all sorts of questions about his finances, upbringing, etc, he mentioned the
fact that, although he had lots of money, he was orphaned and abandoned in a handbag.
This was problematic because, like Lady Bracknell said, her daughter cannot be married
off to a "parcel" and that Ernest needed to produce a father or a  mother quickly to be
able to consider his engagement. This was the way marriage was done: With names, last
names, amounts, and business transactions that will ensure that the family name and
money will continue to be long lasting.

How is the societal marketing concept related to the launching of e-cigarettes?answer please

Societal marketing is one of the many terms used to denote
socially responsible marketing that is based on concern for the ethical, environmental,
legal and social context of marketing activities and programs. Societal Marketing holds
that an organization's task is to determine the needs wants and interests of the target
markets and to deliver the desired satisfaction more effectively and efficiently in a
way that preserves or enhances the consumer's and society's well being (Kotler and
Keller p.22).

I am not aware of the nature of the
e-cigarettes or its marketing approach. However I would like to say that just the
selling of a product that is considered to be less harmful than some substitute product,
does not qualify the related marketing effort as societal marketing. For example, if the
company marketing the product is deliberately promoting a product based on exaggerated
claims of benefits, or is hiding some other harmful effects, it is definitely not
societal
marketing.

Reference:

Kotler,
P. and Keller K.P. (2006) Marketing Management, Pearson Education,
Delhi.

Describe the disillusionment with the American dream in the short story "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"Winter Dreams" just like The Great Gatsby
is one of Fitzgerald's diatribes against the Old Money class in American
society and its seeming false offer of equality to those who believe in the American
Dream. In the story, Dexter observes the wealthy golfers for whom he caddies and
believes that if he works hard enough, he can one day be just like them.  He envisions
scenes where he drives up in luxurious cars and the wealthy surround him simply to
listen to him speak.

Dexter does work hard and becomes
wealthy, but once he makes it to the top, he realizes that the dream has become
corrupted (just like Daisy is the corrupted version of Gatsby's dream and can never live
up to his expectations).

Both of these works present
Fitzgerald's frustration with his own life and attempts to achieve the American Dream. 
He, like Dexter and Gatsby, became interested in a wealthy socialite (Zelda) and was
looked down upon by her social class and family.  When he finally did win Zelda and
marry her, he endured a tumultuous relationship with her where their wealth was unstable
and their faithfulness to one another questionable.  He believed (as he demonstrates in
"Winter Dream") that the Old Money portion of society corrupts the moral, decent
Midwesterner.

What is the outcome and the resolution in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

The terms 'outcome' and 'resolution' refer to the ending
of the story--how Montresor achieves his aim in taking his revenge by burying alive
Fortunato. Montresor has meticulously planned the time, the place and the method of his
revenge well in
advance.

1.Time: Montresor
decides to take his revenge at "about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of
the carnival season," so that every one in his house especially the servants would have
gone out and that he would be able to commit his heinous deed completely unnoticed by
anyone. He had cunningly ensured that the servants would not return home that evening by
lying to them that he will be returning home only next
morning.

2.Place: Montresor
chose the innermost crypt in his vaults so that Fortunato's cries would not be heard by
anyone. He had also arranged to have the building stones and the mortar ready at hand to
wall in Fortunato. When he accompanies Fortunato into the vaults he carries with him the
instrument of revenge-the trowel.

3.The
Method: All the while "smiling in his face" Montresor flatters and traps
Fortunato by exploiting his "weak point" : Fortunato "prided himself on his
connoisseurship in wine," and Montresor deceives him by saying that he does not wish to
trouble him and that he'd rather  seek Luchresi's opinion regarding the quality of the
Amontillado that he has bought. At once Fortunato takes the bait and accompanies
Montresor into the vaults to prove that he is better than Luchresi. Once inside the
vaults, Montresor gets him drunk to slow down his reflexes and then leads him to his
death.

Can anyone give me a quote that suggests Lady Macbeth dares Macbeth into murdering? therefore showing macbeth as gullible.many thanks.!.

Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth
questions her husband's manhood when he decides he does not want to go ahead with
assassinating Duncan.

She chides
him:

Art thou
afeard

To be the same in thine own act and
valor

As thou art in desire?  Wouldst thou have
that

Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life [the
crown],

And live a coward in thine own
esteem,

Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I
would,"

Like the poor cat i'th'adage?  (Act
1.7.39-44)

The adage she
refers to is:  The cat would eat fish but she will not wet her feet," and urges the idle
or timid to action. 

In short, Lady Macbeth accuses her
husband of cowardice.  She asks if he is afraid to act to achieve what he desires to
achieve, if he's willing to give up that which he believes to be the most important
thing in life, and then live with himself as a coward later.  She asks if he's willing
to be like a cat who wants to eat fish but is afraid to get its feet
wet. 

Perhaps, though, concerning her actually daring
Macbeth, as you ask about, the most specific dare may come before the above lines,
leading into them.  After Lady Macbeth rhetorically asks her husband if the hope he
exhibited when they previously talked about assassinating Duncan has since turned "green
and pale," she quips the following:

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...From this
time

Such I account thy love.  (Act
1.7.38-39)

From now on, she
will view his love as "green and pale." 

This may be a
threat even more than a dare, but I think the dare is implied.  If Macbeth doesn't go
through with the assassination, he will lose her love.  And she is daring him to not go
through with it. 

Macbeth is certainly gullible here, but
he is also corrupt.  He will later use the same strategy--the questioning of
manhood--when he bullies the murderers into murdering Banquo.  Although, of course, at
least he won't threaten to withdraw his love from them. 

How would you critically explicate lines 1-26 of Book I of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost?

Lines 1-26 of Book I of John Milton’s epic poem
Paradise Lost are particularly important because they announce many
of the most important themes of the poem as a whole. They also exhibit some of the
techniques, and some of the crucial words, that Milton will employ throughout the poem.
The first line, for instance, speaks of “man’s first disobedience,” referring to the
very first sin, committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This, of course, is a
chief theme of the entire work. Yet already Milton is playing with words, since the word
“first” implies both the priority of this sin in time as well as its crucial importance:
it was the most significant of all sins precisely because it was
the first and thus provided a pattern for every other subsequent sin. Similarly, when
Milton refers to the “fruit / Of that forbidden tree” (1-2), he puns on the word
“fruit,” referring both to the literal fruit tasted by Adam and Eve as well as to
everything that resulted from their eating of the fruit.

In
line 3, the speaker of the poem announces that the taste of the fruit “Brought death
into the world, and all our woe.” Death, of course, is another main theme of this poem,
but note that Milton uses phrasing normally associated with birth (when he speaks of
something being “Brought . . . into the world”) when he paradoxically announces the
birth of death. The first sin was also responsible for “all our woe” – a phrase that
splendidly uses assonance and heavily accented monosyllables to draw out the length of
the phrase and thus issue almost a cry of pain. The word “woe,” moreover, will be used
frequently throughout the poem, as will the word “all,” so that Milton is here
emphasizing key parts of his subsequent vocabulary.

Note
that it is not until line 6 that the verb “Sing,” on which all of the first six lines
depend, eventually appears. This kind of unusual sentence structure is often found in
Latin sentences but rarely in English, but Milton deliberately wanted to imitate a
so-called “Latinate” syntax in this poem. Milton’s “invocation” to (or calling upon) the
“Heav’nly Muse” (6) shows his desire to write a Christian epic while still using many of
the formal devices of a classical epic. Invocations to the muses were common in the
earliest Greek and Roman epics, and Milton is here showing his typical desire to imitate
the classics while also, in a sense, surpassing them.

Many
more aspects of the first 26 lines might be mentioned, such as the biblical allusion at
the beginning of line 9, the echo of an Italian epic in line 16 (a line in which Milton
paradoxically proclaims his desire to be original), and the emphatic statement of the
key theme of the entire poem in line 26 itself. Milton’s invocation is simultaneously
assertive (12-16) and humble (22-23) in a way that is characteristic of the poem as a
whole.

For an excellent brief overview of the poem, please
see C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1961).