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.