What are the criticisms of the UN and its lack of effectiveness?

The major criticisms of the UN and of any other
international, collective security body are that A) it has no power to make anyone obey
its commands and B) it has no real will to make hard decisions because its members
cannot agree on anything.

If you look at the issue going on
with Iran and its nuclear weapons, you can see how this would be.  The UN has told Iran
over and over to stop with its nuclear program.  Iran pretty much just refuses and does
what it wants.  The UN cannot get really tough on Iran because Russia and especially
China do not really want to punish Iran.

So the UN is too
wishy-washy to make a decision and too weak to enforce any decision it does
make.

Write the themes of the poem"the second coming" in detail.

"The Second Coming" by Yeats presents a second coming of a
different kind; different from the second coming Christian tradition
presents.

The poem presents social upheaval and nightmarish
violence.  The falcon cannot hear the falcon, and thus cannot be controlled:  chaos
results.  Those who could do something about the discord "lack conviction," while the
worst are filled with "passionate intensity."  An ambiguous, sphinx-like creature with a
"gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,/Is moving its slow thighs" toward Bethlehem
(metaphorically) to be born.  The "rough beast" is coming.  Nightmarish violence is
coming:  not the second coming of Christ that tradition
expects.

Human history is about to take a turn for the
worse.

Yeats is responding to upheaval and violence in the
world, and particularly in the Russian revolution.  The 20th century is on the verge of
something terrible, the  poem suggests.  And of course, Yeats was correct.  Human beings
were never so good at killing other human beings as they were in the
20th-century.

Can you help me find examples of figurative language from the third part of the book?

1) METAPHOR: "Lights flicked on and house doors opened all
down the street, to watch the carnival set up...in which torches wuld be juggled and
fire eaten." (Although the author does not use the words like
or as he is comparing the scene at Montag's house
to a carnival.)

2)
ALLUSION: "Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings,
he wonders why." (Beatty is referring to the Greek myth of Daedalus and
Icarus, in which a man and his son manage to fly by attaching wings to their
shoulders; see link below.) 

3) SIMILE: "He felt
his head turn like a stone carving to dark place next door" (A comparison is
made, using the word like).

4) ANAPHORA: "She
saw everything.  She didn't do anything to anyone.  She just let them alone."
(The word she is repeated at the beginning of each
sentence.)

In "The House of Usher", what might Madeline and the widening fissure, or crack, symbolize?symbolic meaning of Madeline symbolic meaning of...

In his macabre short story, "The House of Usher," Edgar
Allan Poe employs one of his techniques which he uses, the double
entendre.  That is, the narrative and its ideas turn and duplicate
themselves in meaning  Madeline and the house itself are examples of this use
of double entendre. 

As the title of
Poe's story, "The House of Usher" the implication is made that the narrative will be
about a family and its history.  And, while this is true, the title is a
double entendre since the structural house, also is the house of
Usher, or as put in Modern English, the Ushers' house.  Thus connected, the fissure in
the mansion is symbolic of the genetic
breakdown of the Usher family, a degeneration that is most apparent in
the character of Madeline Usher, the feminine, or physically weaker, side of the twins,
Roderick and Madeline.  But, it is also manifested in Roderick, who, experiences "a
strong shudder over his whole person" much like the "shuddering" of the house. In
addition, Madeline is a double entendre; her physical ailments are
manifested in Roderick's mental ailments; both have the same meaning derived from the
fact that the Usher line is far too thin and they are twins who share genetic traits.
Thus, Madeline's bizarre physical condition symbolizes the deterioration
of Roderick's mind.

Explain what the following quotation tells us about Linda's character in Brave New World. Explain what the quotations given below show us about...

Obviously, Linda has never been able to assimilate into
the civilization at the Indian Reservation.  After she has ruined one of the weaving
looms and she has offended the woman so much that they have beaten her because she has
slept with their men thinking that "everyone belongs to everyone" as she has been
conditioned to do so, it is clear that her hypnopoedia has been effective. Linda is
truly a product of her environment and desires to return to it.  But, her return to
civilization is futile:

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The return to ciilization was for her the return
to soma, was the possibility of lying in bed and taking holiday
after holiday, wihtout ever having to come back to a headache or a fit of vomiting,
without ever being made to feel as you always felt after peyotl, as
though you'd done something so shamefully anti-social that you could never hold up yhour
head again.  Soma played none of these unpleasant tricks.  The
holiday it gave was perfect and, if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not
intrinsically, but only by comparison with the joys of the
holiday.

Linda longs for the
escape that the New World offers from pain, from guilt, from life.  Soma
sends her into the world of "real acetate silk."  (Silk is silk, not acetate,
a synthetic material.)  Having known the real world, Linda now wishes to escape
it.

What was the role of righteousness in the law code of Hamurabi?

I believe the question refers to the Code of
Hammurabi introduced by Hammurabi who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750
B.C.

Hammurabi was formulated incorporating and revising,
and expanding older collections of Sumerian and Akkadian laws. This code had great
influence on the civilization of all near eastern
countries.

Hammurabi's code consisted mainly of a long list
of rules to settle specific types of cases, involving matters such as false accusation,
witchcraft, military service, land and business regulations, family laws, tariffs,
wages, trade, loans, debts and theft. The code described the nature of punishment for
different types of offences committed, which were harsh by today's standards. The code
contains nearly 300 provisions.

On central principle
discernible in the code is  that "the strong shall not injure the weak."  The code set
up a social order based on the rights of the individual and backed by the authority of
Babylonian gods and the state.

A complete translation of
the code of Hammurabi is available at the website referred
below.

Can you find some passages in "Barn Burning" which illustrate Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness style?

Look no further than the first paragraph of Faulkner's
"Barn Burning" to find his free-style stream-of-consciousness
narration:

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The store in which the justice of the Peace's
court was sitting smelled of cheese. The boy, crouched on his nail keg at the back of
the crowded room, knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the
ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of tin cans whose
labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which meant nothing to his mind but from
the scarlet devils and the silver curve of fish - this, the cheese which he knew he
smelled and the hermetic meat which his intestines believed he smelled coming in
intermittent gusts momentary and brief between the other constant one, the smell and
sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of
blood. He could not see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father and
his father's enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! mine and hisn both! He's
my father!) stood, but he could hear them, the two of them that is, because his father
had said no word yet:

"But what proof have you, Mr.
Harris?"

Okay, okay, so the
first sentence is not much of a stream.  It's only 15 words.  But those last two
sentences are long, coiling snakes.  The second sentence is 118 words!  It moves from
boy to cheese to cans to meat to fish to fear to grief to blood.  It is spatial,
external, and internal description.

The third sentence is
61 words, including its jump off into dialogue.  With its parentheses, triple
exclamations, internal ("ourn") and external dialogue ("But what proof...?"), the third
sentence is a little bit of everything.  It's part third person, part Sarty in its point
of view.

Through Faulkner's use of synesthetic imagery, the
reader can smell, taste, and touch the tension in the setting, as we, like Sarty, begin
to feel surrounded and confused.

What would be an example of a metaphor, personification or a smilie in the story of the Cyclops?

A simile is when a writer compares one thing to another by
using the word "like" or "as."  You can see an example of a simile when Polyphemus the
cyclopes first grabs two of Odysseus's men and kills and eats them.  The narrator says
that the cyclopes

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gripped up two of my men at once and dashed them
down upon the ground as though they had been
puppies

By comparing them to
puppies, the narrator is showing how little they were compared to the cycolpes.  He then
goes on to say that the cyclopes ate them as if he were a lion.  That's a simile too. 
He is comparing the cyclopes to a lion to show how vicious and ravenous he
is.

Can you give me an example of an integrated marketing communication campaign? What did the company do that attracted you to the promotion and product?

Integrated marketing refers to the combined total effort
of a company to inform, persuade, or remind customers directly or indirectly about the
products and brands of the company.

Marketing
communications are carried out by a company using the following six modes of
communications which constitute its communication
mix.

1. Advertising: This
   refers to any paid form of communication through a medium of mass
   communication.


2. Sales promotion: This
   refers to any short term incentive to encourage trial purchase or any other specific
   customer action.


3. Events and experiences:Company sponsored
   events or activities that create special experiences for the company.
   


4. Public Relations and publicity:
   Like advertising this form of communication also makes use of mass media to spread
   information designed to promote and protect image and reputation of company and its
   product. However these are more in form of news and other non-paid
   communications.


5. Direct marketing:
   Communicating with individual customers through means of one-to-one distance
   communication such as mail, telephone, e-mail and Internet selling
   system.


6. Personal selling: Primarily face-to-face
   interaction with one or more prospective customer. This includes personal selling
   activities such as making presentations, handling objections, and closing
   sales.

The marketing communication system of
most big companies incorporate all these types of communication methods. Take for
example an automobile companies. They release advertisement in newspapers, special auto 
journals, TV and hoardings.

They also organize sales
promotions campaigns in which customers are offered special deals such as reduced price
or additional guarantee and free servicing for purchases made within a specified period.
Auto companies also run program of demonstrating their products which encourage
prospective customers to test drive the vehicles creating physical experience of driving
their vehicles.

We also see so many articles and news items
about auto companies and their products appearing in various mediums of mass
communication. All efforts of a company to influence such communications constitutes
their public relation and publicity program.

Auto companies
frequently also engage in direct marketing, especially to convince their existing
customer to use car servicing and facilities authorized or operated by the
company.

The company also provides information about their
products on company's Internet selling sites. These site enable the customer to choose
and configure a product they want to buy, get information on the prices and available
financing scheme, and contact information of nearest dealer able to supply the
car.

Finally the auto companies have a large network of
dealership that performs the personal selling function.

How does Shakespeare make Macbeth a character with whom the audience can sympathize?

Shakespeare is notoriously ambiguous in his tragedies,
which contributes to their popularity among teachers and scholars, since they can be
debated relentlessly.  The last I heard, for instance, more commentary had been written
about Hamlet than any other book in existence, except the
Bible. 

Macbeth
is ambiguous, as well.  For instance, many productions of the play show
Banquo's ghost in Act 4.3 at the feast.  The ghost's appearance seems likely to be real,
or actual, in a play filled with the supernatural.  Shakespeare uses a ghost in
Hamlet, why not in Macbeth?  Also, Gertrude in
Hamlet doesn't see the Ghost of King Hamlet during the bedroom
scene when the Ghost is seen by Hamlet, so there is nothing unusual about no one else
seeing Banquo's ghost except Macbeth. 

And if the ghost is
real, then Macbeth is not insane.  I think we misinterpret when we place too much
emphasis on Macbeth's so-called insanity, and relieve him of responsibility by doing
so.  If Macbeth is not responsible, it is because of an overall design by fate or
predestination, an issue important in Elizabethan England due to the Protestant
Reformation, which brought the issue to the attention of
Europeans. 

That said, any sympathy for the character of
Macbeth the audience feels must come from some other source than his insanity.  And it
must not come from feeling that he isn't responsible--he is.  The witches tell him only
that he will be king:  he turns that into the thought that he needs to be king now!  He
turns the prediction into the need to kill Duncan.  Also, he seeks the witches out in
Act 4.1, not the other way around.  He also makes the mistake of cutting his wife out of
the decision-making process once Duncan is dead:  he kills the grooms, orders the
murders of Banquo and Fleance and Macduff's family, all on his own.  These are all
mistakes he makes, without anyone else's help.

So where
does sympathy come from?  His nobility in defending Duncan at the beginning of the play;
his nobility in death at the close of the play; his hopeless situation once he is
surrounded--he is like a bear chained to a tree, attacked by a pack of dogs for the
entertainment of an audience (Act 5.7); from the intellectual side of his personality
that recognizes everything he's done is meaningless (the "Tomorrow" speech, Act
5.5).

Sympathy for Macbeth is not in any way central to the
play.  His ambition and fall from grace are central.  But if one does feel sympathy for
him, it comes from the above.  He allows himself be deceived by the witches and talked
into Duncan's killing by his wife (and these are conscious decisions).  And he takes
over from there and brings about his own downfall.  That cannot be dismissed by any
insanity.  He is guilty.  But sympathy can exist for him, anyway.  Not because we take
the guilt away, but because we see other characteristics than just evil. 
 

In Shakespeare, in sophisticated literature, characters
are mixtures of positive and negative character traits, as are actual human beings.  We
don't need to make excuses for Macbeth in order to feel sympathy for
him.

What is the summary of Chapter 21 and 22 of The Shakespeare Stealer?I have been sick from school and had missed the class discussion. I was...

In chapter 21 of the book "The Shakespeare Stealer" Nick
is at a loss for words when he finds out that Julian is a girl.   He is irritated when
he realizes that he has been fencing with girl for almost a
year.

Saunder feels sorry for Julian because he knows that
they won't let her continue to perform.    Mrs. Phillips bandages Julian's wound.  The
sharers let her perform since she already knows the lines.  It was nearly p[performance
time and no one had seen Nick.

Widge asks Saunders if he
thought that Wdige could ever be a player.  Widge feels bad about the secret that he
carries and woners how Julian could carry hers for so
long.

They find Nick in an ale house drinking his ale. 
Nick tells them he will go to the Globe when he feels like it.  Nick and a student get
into an argument and then a fight.  They fought with swords and Nick was losing.  He
pulled his dagger and so did the student.  During he fight the student stabs Nick in the
throat.  He falls to the ground and Widge curses the
student.

In chapter 22 Widge picks up a stool and knocks
the blade out of the student's hand.  He checks Nick and realizes the wound has not
severed any arteries.  He dos what he can to stop the flow of
blood.

The authorities come but Nick is not charged.  The
other men had fled.  They return to the theater where Nick asks why Julian hides who she
is.  She tells him because it is worth it to act.

Widge is
given the part of Ophelia in the play since Nick is injured.  He has to take it so the
show can go on.  He thinks to himself that if Julian can play a boy, he can play a
girl.

What do you do when you like somebody, you tell them, and they send you mixed messages in return?

Hi Naomy,

You are learning a
valuable bit of information here...relationships stink!  Okay, that might be a bit
dramatic, but the same forces that make love wonderful are the same ones that make it a
real pain in the keester.

There are lots of possible
explanations for your beau's behavior, so I'll just pick a couple out to blow hot air
about:

1. At your age (and I mean that with respect...not
in a"talking down to" kind of way) young men and women are just starting to get an idea
of what they want out of a "significant other."  It may be that he is still trying to
figure that out and isn't sure if you fit the bill or
not.

2. He probably has little experience with real
relationships and is still figuring out how to act...he will learn this by watching the
behaviors of the people he cares about.  For example, if he does "like you" and he isn't
acting the right way, you're counter-behaviors will give him a clue that he needs to act
differently or risk losing you.

3. He may be a jerk and
might be amusing himself with your affections.

4. Because
you care about him, you probably have a heightened sensitivity to what he
says/does/doesn't do.  You, too, are also learning about the subtle clues of how a
relationship works.  It may be that you are misreading his cues because you care enough
to try to figure them out.

5. Boys, traditionally, mature
more slowly than girls.  If it makes you feel any better, he might be just as confused
about your relationship (or the possibility of a relationship) as you
are.

6.  Boys that age are generally morons.  Men my age
are generally morons.  In fact, guys are pretty dumb when it comes to relationships all
around.

From my perspective, the important thing is the be
honest and assertive about what you want from a relationship while still maintaining
your dignity.  If you don't understand his behavior, ask him directly.  That might seem
a bit forward, but if you do it in a "non-clingy, non-psycho, non-stalker" way there is
no better way to get the answers you are looking
for.

Whatever you do, remember to be yourself.  Be
confident and don't cheapen your worth by chasing someone around who "runs hot and
cold."  Boys like girls that present an obtainable challenge and who take pride in
themselves.  Girls who are too compromising and eager to please (though it runs contrary
to logic) do not earn respect and are not valued  (other than by weirdo, control
freaks.)

Good luck to you.  You are at an exciting age, and
in some ways, I really envy you.  Every door is open and everything is still a
possibility.  Don't sell yourself short.

The federal government uses tax laws to affect economic desicions. like home mortgage interest. Why do you think this is so? Tax exemtions are...

Any time a tax break is given, it is an incentive, which,
by definition, is mean to motivate large numbers of people to take specific economic
action.  There are secondary effects as well.  When mortgage interest is deductible, it
makes homes more affordable, even if the interest rate is high, since the homeowner will
get some of that money back.  Now you are stimulating the real estate and construction
industries as well as the mortgage lending industry.  As those industries do more
business, theoretically, more taxes are paid by them and it covers some or all of the
original tax break given.  At least, that's how it's supposed to
work.

As for oil exploration, there are at least two major
forces at work to create such an incentive.  One, it is very expensive for the US to
continue to secure, day after day, 66% of its oil through imports from often unstable
regions.  Our military budget exceeds that of all other countries on Earth combined, and
to continue to secure this resource is one of the reasons why that is so.  Second, the
oil companies are some of the most profitable corporations in human history (In the case
of Exxon-Mobil, the most profitable), and that money buys a lot of
influence over the members of Congress who would create such a tax break.  It's the
oldest game in Washington.

India and Bangladesh had a dispute over water rights to the ____ after the Farakka Dam was constructed.

The correct answer to this question is the Ganges River. 
The Farakka Dam, which is also known as the Farakka Barrage, was built across the Ganges
River and was completed in 1975.  The building of this dam has caused issues that have
led to major disputes between India and Bangladesh.

The
point of the Farakka Dam was to divert water from the Ganges into another river during
the dry season.  By diverting the water, India has been accused of contributing to a
number of problems in Bangladesh, one of which desertification.

How could Hitler protect animals and limit by law animal experimentation while permitting cruel medical experiments on humans in concentration camps?

This is probably one of the best examples of Hitler's
political and personal cruelty.  In order to consolidate his own power and eliminate
opposition to him, Hitler's design was to deem the enemies of Germany as less than
human.  This dehumanization was what allowed the ease with which so many were tormented
and killed.  It was not that Hitler ever said that "These are bad people."  Rather, he
made the argument that individuals who were against him only did so because they were
actually less than human.  Throughout his writings and speeches, the targeting of
individuals of Jewish faith or homosexuals or gypsies was done so as arguing that the
true standard of being a human being was not met by these groups of people, so keeping
them is a crime against humanity.  This sad and twisted logic was embraced by so many. 
Once the floodgates had opened in robbing people of their humanity though insult,
dehumanizing comments and terms, and targeting a group of people, the abuse,
intimidation, and elimination was easier to accomplish.

What final recognitions take place in Book XX of The Odyssey?

Book XX of The Odyssey sets the table
for the revenge that begins in Book XXI.  All of the suitors are reintroduced to
Odysseus, and many are cruel to him.  Book XX is the last chapter that Odysseus will
spend in the disguise of the beggar.  But, all of Odysseus' allies recognize him as lord
Odysseus except Penelope.

Book XX reveals two major
recognitions:

1.  Athena wants Odysseus to recognize that
his revenge against the suitors is sanctioned by the gods.  Odysseus has been doubting
his ability to defeat so many of the suitors:

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"all that you have said is true, but I
am in some doubt as to how I shall be able to kill these wicked suitors single
handed, seeing what a number of them there always are. And there is this
further difficulty, which is still more considerable. Supposing that with
Jove's and your assistance I succeed in killing them, I must ask you to
consider where I am to escape to from their avengers when it is all
over."

Athena
responds:

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"For shame," replied Athena, "why, any one else
would trust a worse ally than myself, even though that ally were only a mortal
and less wise than I am. Am I not a goddess, and have I not protected you
throughout in all your troubles? I tell you plainly that even though there
were fifty bands of men surrounding us and eager to kill us, you should take
all their sheep and cattle, and drive them away with you. But go to sleep; it
is a very bad thing to lie awake all night, and you shall be out of your
troubles before
long."

2.  The suitors and
the readers recognize Telemachus coming into his manhood.  No longer is Telemachus weak
or timid in the midst of the older, brazen suitors.  Telemachus insults them
openly:

. . .
This house does not belong to the people,
but it belongs to Odysseus; he
acquired it; this makes it
mine, and so, you suitors, hold back your spirit
for insults
and blows, or else there may be a quarrel and fight between
us.

As such, the suitors take
offense to his remonstrations--they “bit their lips in amazement / at Telemachos, and
the daring way he had spoken to them.”

What is the big difference between the Socs and the Greasers on the book The Outsiders?put it in your own words and thoughts.

To me, the major difference between these groups is in how
society sees them.  They are both pretty similar, with teens who have problems and who
often turn to violence and gangs to make themselves feel like they are wanted and cared
for.

But the greasers are looked down on by much of
society.  They are seen as the lowlife kids.  Meanwhile, the Socs are much more
respected because they have money and important parents.  Things that they do do not
seem like such a big deal to the community because there is this assumption that they
are basically okay where the greasers are basically punks.

Write about the differences between a Ewell, a Cunningham and a Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird one gets some insight
into the different social status of some of the families within the
story.

The Ewels represent uneducated poor disgusting and
trashy southerners.  Mr. Ewel is an alcoholic who rapes his own daughter and beats his
children.  He has no respect for the law until he needs to use it to his own advantage. 
Even in the courtroom he does not demonstrate respect for the attorneys and judge.  He
also does not value education or work. He is a dishonest and disrespectful
man.

The Cunninghams are also a poor family but the man has
dignity which he deomstrates by repaying his debt to Atticus through barter.  The
children attend school even if they have no money for shoes or decent things and even
food.  They have been taught to be respectful to adults.  Mr. Cunningham will not take
hand-outs and has a great deal of pride.

The Finch's are a
line of southerners who have the respect of the community.  They are
relatively hardworking honest people who have comfortable lifestyles and respect the
rights of other people.  They represent middle class America at the time of the book. 
Although there is a depression, they have food and a
housekeeper.

What in your view are the major differences between L1 acquistion and L2 learning?language and linguistics

In my humble opinion, the major differences between L1
acquisition and L2 learning are:

1. Most people acquire
their mother tongues when they are children. Prior to puberty, anyway. At this time of
life, there are several physiological factors that make acquiring any knowledge easier,
but especially one's first language. Generally speaking, children's brains are like
sponges and information is soaked up much more readily than after they become adults.
Also, the bones of pre-pubescent children have not solidified in their final or adult
shapes. The bones of the jaw are some of these that are still not completely formed,
making it physically easier for a child to make new or unusial sounds over an
adult.

2. When one acquires L1, one is speaking the
lingua franca, or the same language that everyone else is speaking.
Thus, it is normal. There is nothing unusual about it, there is nothing that makes it in
any way a burden. Practicing the language is as easy as turning to anyone and simply
speaking. Learning new words is as easy as pointing and
asking.

This is unlike many people's experiences acquiring
an L2. Often, students acquire an L2 in a setting where most people do not speak that
language, making practice difficult. The necessity of learning the language is often
questioned and the more necessary it is to learn a new language, often the more
burdensome it feels. New vocabulary is sometimes difficult to acquire; one must make
sure that whoever is asked is one who has the correct knowledge. Often, if a word is
obscure, nobody seems to know.

3. When a child
mispronounces a word, it is normal--even cute. Not so for an adult. An adult is given
less grace when he or she mispronounces a word and is seldom considered cute for doing
so. If the child continues to mispronounce a word, his or her peers will make fun of the
child. The same is true to some degree with adults, as well, however, while this may be
a traumatic way to learn, it is less traumatic to be made fun of as a child than as an
adult.

I need a summary of this poem"Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens

In Wallace Stevens's masterful and eloquent poem, "Sunday
Morning," the first two stanzas tell the reader about whom and what the poem is
concerned:  an older woman has death on her mind, and all the religious questions
associated with it.  The conflict in her reflections is between the naturalistic and the
"ancient sacrifice," which is a way of describing the central event of Christianity. 
Thus, the central opposition in Wallace's poem is between the natural/pagan and the
supernatural/Christian views.  This opposition is resolved by the argument of the
speaker who convinces the woman contains spirituality
itself.

In the first stanza, a woman lounges in her
peignoir on a Sunday morning, enjoying the natural beauty around her, enjoying her
coffee and oranges, the "green freedom of a cockatoo."  But her reveries are broken by
this Sunday being Easter Sunday; with this occasion
comes  

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Encroachment of that old
catastrophe...

Dominion of the blood and
spulchre.

In the second
stanza, the speaker of the poem questions her rejection of the Christian
occasion:

Why
should she give her bounty to the dead?

What is divinity if
it can come

Only in silent shadows and in
dreams?

The speaker contends
that she can find a connection between the religious and the natural worlds by her
becoming "the book," so to speak:

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Shall she not find in comforts of the
son,...

Things to be cherished like the thought of
heave?

Divinity must live within
herself

In the third stanza,
the speaker expands his religious focus to the Greek god Jove, whose blood "commingling,
virginal/With heaven." Then, the speaker links Jove's mingling with heaven to the birth
of Christ by connecting it to the star that guided the Wise Men to the birthplace of
Jesus.  Since both myths are disconnected from humanity, man can find the divine in the
natural world.

The woman's voice returns in the next two
stanzas as she questions the argument of the speaker/poet that earthly pleasures can
provide spiritual fulfillment.  While acknowledging that natural beauty "has endured,"
he contends that the eternal beauty of nature is evident in its renewal each spring--"As
April's green endures."  The "chimera of the grave," the dark dreams of Christ's
crucifixion, will not last as will the magnificence of the natural
world.

When the woman
complains,

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'But in contentment I still
feel

The need of some imperishable
bliss'

the speaker counters,
"Death is the mother of beauty."  He explains this paradox by explaining that the
prospect of death makes people appreciate beauty/love all the more.  The next stanza
continues this argument.

In the seventh stanza, the speaker
suggests an alternative to traditional worship, likening the dance of the pagans to
"heavenly worship."

Convinced of the speaker's argument,
the woman hears

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A voice that cries, 'The tomb in
Palestine

Is not the porch of spirits
lingering.

It is the grave of jesus, where he
lay.'

She acknowleges that
the grave of Jesus is not where there are any mystical spirits.  So, she turns with the
speaker to the "old chaos of the sun," and the beginnings and ends--"Ambiguous
undulations."  The woman is released from the restrictions of the religious world and
embraces the "spontaneous cries" of nature where pigeons make their "ambiguous
undulations."

In ONE 'short' paragraph, 'outline' how Albert Bandura's, Dorothy Ross' and Sheila Ross' (1961) psychological research (linked below) has helped...

Bandura, Ross, and Ross argue the philosophy that social
learning is the primary way to acquire a behavior. For this reason, they basically state
that what people see, hear, and live everyday will kind of imprint onto their
subconscious, making them prone to act, talk, and behave the way their peers do. In the
case of murder, if a person lives in a violent environment and exposed to a whole lot of
heavy fighting, shouting, and disregard for human life, the social learning theory would
agree that the person could easily develop aggressive tendencies that could lead easily
to murder.

What is significant about the setting in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and what does the novel tell us about friendship?

The setting does change a little in Steinbeck's
Of Mice and Men.  The story begins and ends at somewhat of an
idyllic spot on the edge of water where George and Lennie first appear, and ends in the
same spot, where George shoots Lennie. 

I say somewhat
idyllic because the place is not ideal, it's just the best that Lennie and George get in
the novel.  The water is stagnant, and possibly unsafe to drink.  And the spot includes
at least one dead mouse, the mouse that Lennie has in his pocket when they first arrive
at the site, and that George makes Lennie throw out, because its dead and presumably
decrepit.  The mouse, of course, is indicative and possibly symbolic of other dead
things in the work, including the pet puppy, Candy's dog, Curley's wife, and Lennie
himself. 

The setting does reflect George and Lennie's
dreams, of course, including even the rabbits. 

Notice
again, though, that the rabbits vanish before George and Lennie arrive--Lennie doesn't
get to see them. 

He never gets to see them on a place of
his own, either.  This setting is reflective of the rest of the novel and Lennie's
fate.    

How should people who are against a war go about protesting it? Was the Vietnam war protested in an effective way?

I believe that the protesters were very effective whether
they presented a negative image about themselves or not. After all, they weren't
protesting for themselves.

Vietnam was described as the
first living-room war, in as much as the news could show action that happened only hours
previously, and there was virtually no censorship involved. One result of that was that
the war was not sanitized for the American public. But linked, I think, to this reality
was a realistic broadcast of the anti-war movement. The realistic portrayal of the dead
in Vietnam and the violence associated with the anti-war protests did not win any
supporters for the war. The protesters won no friends but I think it did raise the
conscientiousness level of the public. In this sense, it was a
success.

And yes, as an American citizen if you feel that a
war is going badly, and especially if the war is actually unjust (as so many thought
during Vietnam), you should have the right to voice that opinion. Protest to your
heart's content. But be prepared for the backlash.

A major
difference between Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan, and in my opinion a big difference, is
that most troops in Vietnam were drafted and had no legal choice, while our soldiers in
Iraq/Afghanistan are volunteers.

Bless the volunteer
army.

You find a puddle of a clear liquid on your driveway. it is either water, vinegar or battery acid from the car.how can you safely test the liquid...

A clear liquid on a driveway could safely be tested by
pouring baking soda on it.  If it is vinegar or battery acid it will bubble up.  If it
is water it will do nothing.  However, it will not tell you whether it is vinegar or
battery acid.

Liquids have different attributes that can be
used to identify what they may be:

Color can help determine
a liquid.  Since the liquid was clear we can rule out that helping solve the
problem.

Odors are specific to certain liquids.  Vinegar
has a distinct odor.  Battery acid has its own odor.  Water is
odorless.

Freezing point, liquids have different freezing
points.

Boiling points, liquids have different boiling
points.

Liquids have different
densities.

Getting back to the difference between the three
liquids; Battery acid is acidic and would gradually breakdown a simple material such as
cloth.  One could dip a small piece of cloth in the liquid and remove it.  If the cloth
begins to erode, it is battery acid.

In Crispin: The Cross of Lead, who is at the White Stag tavern?

Through bribery, Crispin convinces the guide, whom the
widow arranged to take him to the town walls and safety, to lead him instead to the
White Stag where the conspirators are meeting. So, the conspirators are at the White
Stag. Crispin approaches them for help in arranging an escape for Bear, who is being
held elsewhere. The conspirators decline because the town is heavily guarded but offer
to escort Crispin to the town square.

Once there, Crispin
discovers John Aycliffe and convinces him at knife point to release Bear. Had Crispin
not gotten to the conspirators at the White Stag, he never would have encountered
Aycliffe and Bear would never have escaped. Of course, the escape leads them right into
another ambush or two, but that's for another question.

What happens when the speaker asks the raven to leave?What is the speaker's condition at the end of "The Raven"?

The first answer is more of a literal reading of the
poem.  Many critics do not consider the raven to be a literal bird, but rather a symbol
of death, grief, loss of love, etc.

It is true that the
Raven does not leave at the end of the poem.  Is this likely then, to be an actual
bird?  I think what is really going on, is the speaker cannot get over his lost love,
Lenoire.  At the end of the poem, he has conjured up the courage (and anger) to scream
and cast the Raven (his memory of Lenoire) out of his mind.  But alas, it will not
leave.  He is left with more than depression.  This is his final admittance of
hopelessness and despair.

How did Britian and France try to prevent war with Germany?Please answer as soon as possible

Agreed with the above post.  They buried their heads in
the sand and hoped Hitler would go away, mostly.  Then they ignored him furhter when he
did not, and at their own peril.  However, France did build a large military and an
expensive, massive fortification called the Maginot Line that they believed would be
impossible to breach.  Hitler just "blitzkrieg-ed" around it by going through
Belgium.

They also formed an alliance with one another, and
wth the Soviet Union. They even practiced brinksmanship - a foreign policy where they
threaten war if a certain action is taken, gambling that he will not.  They did this
after Czechoslovakia was taken, and threatened Hitler with war if he invaded Poland. 
It's a way of trying to prevent war by threatening war.  It worked about as well as
appeasement did.