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.