Act 1, Scene 1 how does Shakespeare engage his audience?stage directions,action sequences,comedy,drama,language

Shakespeare engages the audience in Act I, scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet with his use of puns.  A pun is a play on words.  In this scene, Shakespeare uses the servents of the Capulet and Montague households to begin quarrelling.  The banter back and forth exemplifies this technique of Shakespeare's.  For example, in the first three lines of the play, the words coals, colliers, choler, and collar are used in the conversation between Sampson and Gregory.

Discuss Shakespeare's potrayal of women in "Othello"?

In Othello, there are 3 women and 3
men, and here's how they match up: Othello - Desdemona (upper-class); Iago - Emilia
(middle-class); Cassio - Bianca (low-class).

The two main
women, Desdemona and Emilia, change substantially during the play.  They are foils of
each other: Desdemona is idealistic and traditional, whereas Emilia is realistic and
jaded.  Both of them are deceived and murdered by their husbands.  Shakespeare seems to
be saying that his society was more sexist than racist.  They are the victims of male
revenge and jealousy.

Desdemona goes from being very vocal
in court and defiant of her father in Act I.  She secretly elopes with a black man,
which would have been scandalous.  Not only that, but she talks the Duke into letting
her accompany her husband to war.  After Act II, she is as submissive and quiet as a
mouse.  She knows she's going to die, and she does not fight or call for help.  In all,
she seems like two different characters: a vixen in Act I, and a passive victim in Acts
II-V.

Emilia changes the other way.  She goes from being
chatty in Act II to openly defiant of her husband in Act V.  Iago is a misogynist who
openly slanders women in Act II ("You rise to play and go to bed
to work”), yet she says nothing.  Only after Desdmona is murdered
does she cry foul.  But, she is the hero of the play, the only one with enough courage
to call men what they really are ("[men] are all but stomachs, and
we all but food; They eat us hungrily, and when they are
full, they belch us.")

Overall, Othello goes from treating
his new bride as a goddess to a whore, all because of an accusation.  This suggests that
women are set up to fail, that they are victims of impossible standards (even
double-standards), that they are play-things, status symbols, toys, and food for
men.

As such, women are afforded no voices.  They cannot
defend themselves, and no male stands up for them.  An outspoken woman was the same as
an unfaithful one, such was the misogyny inherent in the macho culture.  Desdemona's
fallen status as a whore even below Bianca suggests that men may not have loved women at
all, only used them for work and play.

What does Frost's "Come In" suggest about the individual's ability to pursue personal well being when responding to internal and external demands?

Two “individuals” who might be said to pursue individual
well-being in Robert Frost’s poem “Come In” are the bird and the man who listens to the
bird.  The bird might be said to pursue individual well-being in spite of internal and
external demands in such ways as the
following:

• The bird continues to sing despite
  the darkness that surrounds it.  Rather than giving in to the “external demand” to cease
  singing when night arrives, the bird chooses to continue
  singing.


• The bird sings despite (or perhaps because of)
  another external challenge: apparently it has a less than ideal place to
  perch.


• The bird sings despite (or perhaps because of) an
  internal demand: the need for sleep.


• Since it is too
  dark in the woods for the bird to fly and discover a better perch, the bird makes the
  best of its present situation by singing. Perhaps it sings out of some discomfort and
  annoyance with its present situation, but at least it sings, thus making the best out of
  a less than pleasant circumstance:

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Too dark in the woods for a bird
By
sleight of wing
To better its perch for the night,
Though it still
could sing.

Meanwhile, the
speaker of the poem might also be said to pursue individual well-being in spite of
internal and external demands in such ways as the
following:

• Although he imagines that the bird is
  calling him to join the bird in the dark forest, he refuses to do so.  Perhaps the dark
  woods are associated symbolically with a kind of mental darkness, and perhaps the song
  of the bird is also associated symbolically with a kind of lamentation, as the following
  lines suggest:

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Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music
went --
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and
lament.

Despite his
attraction to the song of the bird, however, the speaker resists the temptation to enter
the woods:

But
no, I was out for stars;
I would not come
in.

Do these lines mean that
he symbolically chooses light over darkness, life over death, the pursuit of happiness
over a giving-in to sadness? In any case, the speaker chooses his own well-being in
spite of being attracted (perhaps even tempted) by the dark woods and the sound of
lamentation.

In To Kill a Mockingbird why did Jem destroy Mrs. Dubose's flowers? Do you think his punishment was fair?

On the way to town that morning, Jem and Scout had passed
Mrs. Dubose's place, and she was sitting on the front porch.  As they passed, she
starting hurling insults at them, criticizing them and Atticus.  She was pretty rude and
caustic; one of the remarks centered around Atticus being a "nigger lover," for taking
the case of Tom Robinson.  Jem was furious.  Normally, he took her comments in stride
and brushed them off (she always insulted them when they walked by), but that was too
much for Jem.  On the way home, when she was inside, he destroyed her flowers in
revenge.

Atticus made him go to her house and read to her
every afternoon until she died.  It was an interesting punishment, to be sure.  It might
seem a bit drastic, but Atticus was trying to help Jem to see what a strong, "brave
lady" she was as she fought against her addiction.  Atticus was all about seeing beyond
people's exteriors, and looking at them for who they were on the inside, and that is the
lesson that he wanted to teach Jem.

I hope that helped;
good luck!

What do you think Harper Lee's views on education are?

I think that it is kind of hard to say what her views on
the educational system of her time were, but it seems pretty clear as to what she
thought of some aspects of education that she discusses in the book.  I don't know if
these attitudes came about because of how things were in her time or
not.

In the book, she seems to be very skeptical of the
value of new ideas in education.  She thinks that Miss Caroline's "Dewey Decimal" ideas
about education are pretty ridiculous.  This teacher's ideas seem to be kind of
"new-fangled" with their emphasis on silently looking at flashcards and
such.

I think she also thinks teachers who believed in
these kinds of systems were too inflexible.  We see this in how Miss Caroline has such a
hard time dealing with the fact that Scout is not conforming to her ideas of what a
first grader should be.

Chris wasn't aware that there was another way he could have crossed the river back to civilization. Describe how he could have done that in Into...

A passage detailing Jon Krakauer's own journey to the bus
where McCandless died explains that there certainly was a way in which the young man
should have been able to escape his death sentence.

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Unlike McCandless, however, I have in my
backpack a 1:63,360-scale topographic map (that is, a map on which one inch represents
one mile). Exquisitely detailed, it indicates that half a mile downstream, in the throat
of the canyon, is a gauging station that was built by the U.S. Geological
Survey...

We arrive to find an inch-thick steel cable
spanning the gorge, stretched between a fifteen-foot tower on our side of the river and
an outcrop on the far shore, four hundred feet away...hydrologists traveled back and
forth above the river by means of an aluminum basket that is suspended from the cable
with pulleys...The station was decommissioned nine years ago for lack of funds, at which
time the basket was supposed to be chained and locked to the tower on our side--the
highway side--of the river.  When we climbed to the top of the tower, however, the
basket wasn't there.  Looking across the rushing water, I could see it over on the
distant shore--the bus side--of the
canyon.

This passage is found
near the beginning of Chapter 17 and does provide additional information about the
basket and pulley.

I need to find two quotes in chapter 7 from Into The Wild which prove that McCandless actually lives by his words or not.i'd like help very much,...

McCandless was completely focused on traveling to Alaska, and experience the wilderness independently.  He planned on leaving in April, and when Westerberg asked him to delay his departure to work a little longer, and even offered him a plane ticket to Alaska to save some time, McCandless refused, saying, "No, I want to hitch north.  Flying would be cheating.  It would wreck the whole trip".

Also, McCandless apparently believed, in agreement with writers such as Tolstoy and Thoreau, in the value of chastity and denouncing "the demands of the flesh".  Krakauer notes that he lived by this belief as well, saying, "it seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk".

From the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," how could you analyze John Oakhurst's character?

Oakhurst is an interesting character. He is called both the strongest and the weakest of the outcasts. Although he had great leadership qualities, it was he who committed suicide and gave up without saving himself or the party.

Throughout the story, he is depicted as a man of strong moral character. Despite his career as a gambler, he is an honest and fair man. These traits are evident in the way he handled Tom's loss to him. Rather than just taking the Innocent's money, he gave it back and warned him against gambling in the future.

Oakhurst shows leadership and intelligence. It is he who first understands the party's terrible predicament. So he does everything he can to protect Tom and Piney: He suggests they move on alone, and when that fails, he rations the food and keeps the order and assumes the largest part of the responsibilities, including the major part of night watch. He is the one who fashions the snow shoes so that Tom can get help. But he knows this is too late. Perhaps if he had sent Tom a day or two earlier, they all might have lived. When he realizes his error and knows that he will not survive until the rescue party arrives, he cuts the firewood for the women.

But he does kill himself. He is too afraid/weak to face a slow death.

So in short, he seems to be a series of contradictions. He is intelligent but too cautious, shrewd but fair, a good leader but a failed leader, strong but weak.

Check the links below for more information on the themes and characters.

Pregnancy.I need to know everything about pregnancy for my biology exam. But I'm stuck. I need to know some hormones produced, the stages...

During pregnancy many hormone levels increase.  Prolactin
is increased.  This regulates lactation and during pregnancy it causes enlargement of
the mammary glands.  The parathyroid hormone increases causing increases of calcium
uptake in the gut and reabsorption by the kidney. Cortisol, aldosterone, and placental
lactogen increase as well. 

The zygote is the initial cell
formed during reproduction. A human zygote exists for about four days, and becomes a
blasocyst on the fifth day. "In humans the morula develops and travels to the
uterus around 3 to 4 days after fertilization, and at about 4 to 5 days after
fertilization a fluid-filled space called the blastocoel cavity appears and the morula
becomes a blastocyst."  Once a blastocyst the cells may adhere to the uterine wall and
become implanted.

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"The placenta is an organ that connects the
developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination and gas
exchange via the mother's blood
supply."

In humans the
placenta usually weighs about one pound and is dark reddish in color. It connects to the
fetus by an umbilical cord that contains two arteries and one
vein.

Is Sonnet XXXI Petrarchan or Shakespearean?What is the rhyme scheme? ***specific answers please no summarries***

Sonnet 31 is a Shakespearean sonnet, specifically because
it was written by Shakespeare whose sonnets define that particular form.  The last two
lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are a rhyming couplet - that should help you identify
them.

The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:
ababcdcdefefgg

A Petrarchan sonnet always has an octave (8
lines) whose rhyme scheme is abbaabba, and the last sestet (6 lines) can vary in rhyme
scheme and be either: cdcdcd, cddcdc, cdecde, cdeced, or cdcedc

In the book Frankenstein By Mary Shelley How long has Victor been away from home, studying at Ingolstadt?

In Frankenstein chapters 8-11, we can
deduce that Victor Frankenstein studies chemistry and natural philosophy in Ingolstadt
for four years with Clerval, from 1788 to 1792.  Then, he creates his monster that same
year, late November 1792.

After Victor creates the monster,
he nearly goes mad from mental and physical exhaustion.  He is nursed back to health for
the Spring.  In early April 1793, Victor resumes his studies at Ingolstadt with Clerval.
 They study foreign (Oriental) languages together.  He only studies for a few months,
until William is murdered, at which point he returns home.

What's the climax point in " Nineteen Fifty-five " By Alice Walker?

A single climax is difficult to determine in "1955"
because so much of the point of this story is implicit rather than explicit. However, I
think it would safe to assume that the climax is Traynor's continued pressing of Gracie
Mae for the meaning of the song. Despite the commercial success he has turned it into,
Traynor is clueless when it comes to the song's central meaning. And although she may
not have received much monetary gain from the song, Gracie Mae understands its meaning
implicitly. The commentary on the music industry and our society is clear. Despite the
financial success, Traynor is the failure and Gracie Mae the more accomplished,
self-actualized human being.

Explain Lucy's character in The Rivals ?I'm having a hard time understanding her part and to whom does she actually work for?

in being the cunning and rougish maid,Lucy is the female
counterpart of Fag. she is thye maid servant in mrs. malaprop's household whereshe
serves both her and lydia. she is a confidante of her mistress' secrets like fag, but
unlike him she cannot be trusted with them nor does she care wether they flourish or are
thwarted. she beleives in exploiting her employers, and others too,her motive being the
extraction of as much money from them as possible, even if it requires the use of
ubnfair means.

Lucy plays false to those who rely upon her,
and laughs heartily at the fact that the so-called superiors beleive her to be a
simpleton. mrs. malaprop lives under an illusion and even says in the play, "sure, lucy
cant have betrayed me!- no the girl is such a simpleton. had she been one of your
artificial over, i should never have trusted her."

she
receives money from lydia and captain absolute to keep silent over their secret romance
and from mrs malaprop to the same and also to know tyhe secrets of others. even from the
cunning old  old lucius she manages to squeeze money by duping him into the beleif that
the 'delia' who has been writing letters to him, is not mrs malaprop but her neice,
lydia. from mr. acre she gets money and gifts for carrying some letters which have to be
deliverd to lydia but she never deliverd them to her.

as
far as lucy's services ae concerned, she gets books from the circulating luibraries
without the knowledge of her aunt, who would never approve of the novels that she was
fond of reading. and lucy's services to mrs. malaprop include carrying l9ove lettee from
her to Sir lucius o'trigger, the irish baronet. she draws money from lydia promising to
assist her in her elopement with beverly, and at the same time, exctracts money from the
aunt by betraying the plan to her.

to sum up, lucy, is one
of those timeless, immortal characters that have been created by sheridan that is the
most perfect example of the caricatured double, even triple
agent. 

What is the importance of Chapter 28? (Consider it from the novelist's working viewpoint.)

In chapter 28 of To Kill a
Mockingbird, Lee marks the culmination of her Gothic suspense.  In a novel
that begins in SUMMER, it is apropos to end it in FALL during HALLOWEEN
to reflect its Gothic motifs.  The supernatural ghost Boo saves the children
at night in the woods against the maniacal Bob Ewell.  The mockingbird defeats the blue
jay.

Lee wants to connect her characters in the resolution.
 She begins her book with Jem's broken arm as a frame, and she focuses on Tom's mangled
hand during the climax of the trial.  Jem and Tom, both mockingbirds, are victimized by
cruelty.  Injuries are important in the Southern Gothic tradition to show the damaging
effects of an illegitimate society.  The gothic tension that Lee worked so hard to
develop in part I of the novel comes full circle as Boo shows his face, and Scout learns
that he's not so grotesque after all, the lesson that Atticus has stressed time and
again.

Summary of Chaim Kaufmann's “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Wars”.

The basic idea of this article is that ethnic civil wars
cannot be stopped in the way that most people try to stop them.  However, the people who
say that they cannot be stopped at all are wrong
too.

People typically try to stop ethnic civil wars by
proposing various types of power sharing agreements.  They urge the sides to talk and
learn to get along.  Kaufmann says this is impossible.

What
he says is that you need to separate the sides into their own enclaves.  The sides need
to not come in contact and they need to be able to defend themselves from any
attacks.

Once this happens, there will be fewer reasons to
fight and peace can be achieved.

Please explain "for half his flock were in their beds," in W.B.Yeats' poem "The Ballad of Father Gilligan."

In the Bible the Priest is often referred to
as a shepherd and his parishioners as his flock. Jesus Himself is
referred to as 'The Good Shepherd.' So, Father Gilligan is equated with a shepherd who
tends his parishioners who are his flock.

W.B.Yeats' "The
"Ballad of Father Gilligan" is a moving story of how God comes to the rescue of a
sincere priest whose only concern is the salvation of the souls of his
impoverished parishioners.

Father Gilligan who was
exhausted in fulfilling his priestly duties day and night during an epidemic in the
Irish countryside, either in giving the last communion to his poor parishioners who were
dying in large numbers or conducting funeral services for them,  was at home
one evening taking a well deserved
rest and had dozed off in his chair.

Half the population of
the village was already dead and buried because of the epidemic and the other half  was
waiting to die and they were  lying in their sick beds.

"pride and prejudice is a domestic novel". what points can we give from the novel to prove this?

A domestic novel, also called a sentimental novel or
women's fiction really reached its heyday from 1820-1865, though there are examples
reaching back to the mid 1700's.  Pride and Prejudice was published before its heyday in
1813, but Jane Austin was known through her letters to be influenced by Samuel
Richardson, who was one of the forerunners in the
genre.

Pride and Prejudice does focus primarily on
emotional matters, which is the hallmark of a domestic novel.  Lizzy fits the "practical
woman" template, and does fight for self mastery through the novel and does make a
marriage, all of which are typical of a domestic
novel. 

However, Austin's Sense and
Sensibility is considered to be a more pinnacle piece in the genre, due to
the witty, almost satirical version of the genre.

Contrast the mood at Devon during the summer session and fall session. Identify at least three factors that might account for this change in mood.

The summer season and mood at Devon is described just
after Finny has managed to talk him and Gene out of getting into trouble because they
missed a meal through jumping out of the tree. Gene
comments:

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That was the way the Masters tended to treat us
that summer. They seemed to be modifying their usual attitude of floating, chronic
disapproval. During the winter most of them regarded anything unexpected in a student
with suspicion, seeming to feel that anything we said or did was potentially illegal.
Now on these clear June days in New Hampshire they appeared to uncoil, they seemed to
believe that we were with them about half the time, and only spent the other half trying
to make fools of them. A streak of tolerance was detectable; Finny decided that they
were beginning to show commendable signs of
maturity.

Note how a metaphor
is used to describe the teachers - like snakes, they have uncoiled in the summer due to
the warmth and are more permissive and accepting of students. They are "mellowed" with
the warmer whether and those "clear June
days".

Significantly, it is Finny's fall (helped by Gene)
that marks the end of summer and the Fall which leads to winter. This is significant
because it marks the end of innocence in Gene and a time when both he and Finny have to
face up to unpleasant realities and come to terms with their relationship and with the
War itself. Chapter Six begins by stating "Peace had deserted Devon" and then continues
to state that although the surroundings were not affected by Fall that much and there
was still the appearance of summer, winter was truly on the
way:

But all
had been caught up, like the first fallen leaves, by a new and energetic wind.... this
was [Devon's] one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for
it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen
leaves.

This change in tone
is caught up by the introductory service of the school, which represented a kind of
clamp-down - a return to authoritarian rules and regimes. Gene himself relates this
change to Finny's "accident":

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Still it had come to an end, in the last long
rays of daylight at the tree, when Phineas
fell.

This change in mood is
reflected again by Gene's comment on the students and how they have changed now in the
Fall:

We had
been an idiosyncratic, leaderless band in the summer, undirected except by the eccentric
notions of Phineas. Now the official class leaders and politicians could be seen taking
charge, assuming as a matter of course their control of these walks and fields which had
belonged only to us.

Thus
this change in mood is kind of a pathetic fallacy - the innocence and fun of summer is
ended in a number of ways. Firstly through the act of Gene pushing Finny off the tree
and his "accident". Secondly through the students continued maturing and awareness of
the War, and lastly because many students were beginning to think about signing up
instead of finishing their schooling. The bleak realities of their existence coincide
with the change in season.

What else could I pull from these two stories to compare and contrast?I am currently writing a compare and contrast essay in comp II for "War" by...

In The Things They Carried, I would
choose "The Man I Killed," "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong," and "The Lives of the
Dead."  All of these stories are connected to Tim's view of death and how he is actually
writing to women, his ideal readers, as part of a coping process.  He knows that if he
can get a woman (his daughter, Linda, Lemon's sister, the "dumb cooze," or Martha) to
understand war and death, then he has succeeded as a man, a soldier, and
storyteller.

Most of the men, after they have killed,
internalize their feelings, whether it be guilt, anger, depression, or loneliness.
 Bowker's the best example: no one in his hometown listens to him, not his dad, not his
ex-girlfried.  And so he kills himself because of a lack of communication.  For O'Brien,
the best way to deal with death is to talk about it and, better yet, write about it.
 Not only should one write about it, but he should write to someone who might even hate
him for ever being a solider and killing in the first place: a woman (like Martha or
Kathleen or Lemon's sister).

You have to decide why O'Brien
does this: why are women his ideal audience for dealing with death?  Are women better
listeners?  Does the wife, mother, and daughter comfort and forgive better than the male
equivalents?  Are women able to give soldiers who've experienced death a better sense of
purpose?  Is the female community at home, ironically, stronger than the male one that
goes to war?

When a soldier dies, all the soldiers in the
company loose something.  After O'Brien killed "the man I killed" he seems to have taken
on the guilty feelings that Cross took on with Lavender's death.  The part of O'Brien
that was killed with him, whether it be innocence or inexperience, was not replaced with
something, like courage or guilt. O'Brien's point is that war first leads
to a death of one's identity, and the lack of identity that follows is a vacuum that may
be filled with guilt (Cross), fear (Lavender), an overdependence on camaraderie (Kiley),
a rebellious spirit (Bell), or nothing at all
(Azar).

Can you identify at least four people instrumental in the development of 20th century U.S. policing?Any accomplishments?

Two Presidents' names should be on the list too: Ronald
Reagan and Bill Clinton.

Reagan initiated the "get tough"
approach in the so-called War on Drugs, and his attitude and policies led to a long list
of new laws, new jails, and new sentencing guidelines that changed the look of the
justice system forever.

Bill Clinton was instrumental in
getting a crime bill passed in the early 1990's that put more than 100,000 new police
officers on the streets - giving large amounts of federal funding for local police
changed the way law enforcement worked.  There was also a significant drop in crime in
the 1990s, although this could be due to other factors too.

How did Mrs. Olinski pick her team in The View From Saturday?

Mrs. Olinski doesn't choose the students like most other teachers do. She doesn't hold a competition and pick her team based on the winners of the competition. She decides she will appoint them. When Mr. Singh asks her how she chose her team, she tells him she chose the members because she had watched them extend some act of kindness to another person. She had come back to teaching after a serious car accident had left her crippled. She's upset by the cruel actions of some of the students in her class, so it's more important for her to have kids on her team who are good and kind than to have the smartest kids who answer lots of questions quickly. 

Are "The Purloined Letter" and "Bartleby the Scrivener" written with a third person omniscient narrator?

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Purloined Letter" uses a first
person narrator who, by definition, participates in the story and only knows his own
motives, thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and
emotions:

At
Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18--, I was enjoying the
twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum,
...

Herman Mellville's short
story "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street" also uses a first person narrator
who is, also by definition, a participant in the story and only knowledgeable about his
own thoughts, motives, feelings, perceptions, and
emotions:

I AM
a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought
me into more than ordinary contact with . . . the law-copyists . .
.

In first person narration,
the narrator refers to her-/-imself as "I," and the narrator only knows about the inner
world of other characters if they tell her/him, if s/he infers or deduces or guesses at
it, or if they read a letter or a diary entry or explanatory article etc, or if some
other character tells them something about it.

Third person
omniscient narration differs greatly from first person because the narrative is told by
someone who is not a participant in the story and has the ability to know the inner
world of any character, thus can tell the thoughts, feelings, perceptions, motives,
emotions of any character, and can tell the story through the experience of any
character at any moment in the narrative (change the point of view at any time). As can
be seen, by this definition neither Poe's story nor Melville's story has a third person
omniscient narrator.

In what ways does Miller use irony in The Crucible to manipulate the audience's sympathies?

Irony appears in several places in this play.  First of all, there is the irony that the girls are the ones guilty of witchcraft, but they are accusing everyone else.  The audience immediately feels guilty for their victims.  John Proctor, when trying to recite the ten commandments, accidentally omits the one about adultery.  Elizabeth has to remind him of it causing the audience to see and feel her pain.  Francis Nurse and Giles Corey provide evidence of their wives' innocence yet they are taken into custody.  And finally, at the end, the audience feels for John Proctor because to prove his innocence and his goodness, he is forced to make the decision to not confess and die.

Where can I find medical journals and magazines on Sickle Cell Anemia?

When I am investigating a topic, I find a couple of
articles that I liked and review their references.  This helps in locating reputable
journals, books, and other studies. It also helps you narrow down your search.  I then
read those articles and review their references.  This helps save time, effort, and
frustration.  When I was in college I was given access to the ERIC database of
journals.  You might want to try that website ( href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/">http://www.eric.ed.gov/).

The
following is a list of journals that I was able to find sickle cell anemia referenced
in:

The Journal of Clinical
Investigation

New England Journal of
Medicine

Journal of the American Medical
Association

British Journal of
Hematology

Journal of Pediatric
Hematology/Oncology

What is John Wyndham saying about David's beliefs and values and how do they effect on his behavior in The Chrysalids?

Oddly enough, somehow David, even as a young boy, has
values and beliefs that are different from those of his father, the Magistrate of
Waknuk, and different from most people in his community. To make this difference
believable, John Wyndham gives David an Uncle who sees for himself the error of the
fanaticism of the belief system in Waknuk. Perhaps Uncle Axel saw enough of the world
beyond Waknuk or understood and believed the reports of that world enough to give him a
clearer vision and more reasoning attitude.

In any event,
David's values and beliefs are innocent ones of inclusion and tolerance instead of
blamable ones of exclusion, punishment, and division. The irony is that in the end the
Sealanders turn the final judgment against the Waknukians who are demolished in
death.

Wyndham's interest was in how long-established
beliefs and values--logical systems--are detrimental to the survival and integrity of
humanity when the world drastically changes, through one means or another. It was
Wyndham's belief that logical systems had to be reframed in such an event, the way the
Sealanders did--and the way David was doing. Of course, David was helped along by the
fact that he had a Deviation that made him a Blasphemy and subject to punishment, even
death.

David's values and beliefs led him to behave in a
way that was loving and kind instead of punishing and coldly distant. He was led to help
protect and guard instead of expose and harm. An illustration of this is the incident
with Allan and Sophie. Allan was of a comparable age with David and, whereas David was
gentle and kind with Sophie and quietly protecting her, Allan judged and condemned her
and loudly exposed her resulting in her punishment and
banishment.

Further, David's beliefs and values led him to
lead, counsel (following Uncle Axel's admonitions) and protect the other telepaths in
and near Waknuk, including his younger sister, Petra. Finally, he was led to summon the
courage needed to lead the other telepaths in their escape from Waknuk, with his
avenging father is hot pursuit.

What does the quote "character is destiny" mean in reference to the play Hamlet?

Think about different characters and how their "character" or personality affects their fate.

For example, Polonius is a sneak and a gossip. It is fitting that he meets his end hiding behind a curtain.

Gertrude and Claudius have a conspiratorial character. They die by their own plans gone awry.

Hamlet is extremely intelligent, but he takes too long to make a decision. Part of his character is thoughtful weighing of consequences, and also a need to "be sure" of things. This is the reason he sets up the "Moustrap" play and also why he doesn't kill Claudius when he has a chance. This character trait will not serve him well in a situation that calls for swift action.

Do you agree with the FDA that nicotine can be classified as a drugand that cigarettes can be classified as devices under the definitions in the...

Regulating smoking: Nicotine certainly is a drug.  I do
not know anything about government's legal definitions of drugs and
devices.

It does not follow from nicotine being a drug that
the government has any business in my personal life regulating my tobacco
habits.

There was once an advertisement for a brand of
cigarettes that labled it the thinking man's cigarette.  Which of course was baloney:
the thinking man does not smoke.  But what if the nonthinking man chooses to smoke? 
What business is that of government, except that a lot of self-righteous, do-gooders are
insisting upon regulations and prohibitions making the lives of everyone else more like
their own "enlightened" life, and they do vote.  And give a bureaucrat a cause on
which to spend money and thereby create a job or a kingdom for himself, and he will do
it regardless of the merit of the cause.  "Regulate cigarettes?  Glad to do it, and, oh,
by the way, we need a budget increase."  The better to keep busy and appear important or
needed.

Regulate tobacco, then what is next?  Hibiscus
tea?  It has a theraputic effect on high blood pressure.  It has been used without
regulation for thousands of years.  "But by golly, all drugs should be regulated!  If
you start making exceptions, you will have people doing harm to themselves."  Durn it,
people know tobacco is unhealthy for them; it's not like anyone is forcing anyone else
to smoke, nor is the knowledge that tobacco is bad for health being hidden from
anyone.

What rhetorical strategies does Poe use in the introduction to "The Fall of the House of Usher"?I need at least five rhetorical strategies.

He uses sound, especially alliteration:  dull, dark, dreary, desolate, decayed depression, dreariness--and this is just paragraph one.

He uses punctuation as a rhetorical strategy: in paragraph two the narrator frequently breaks us his speech, which the text signifies through the dash (--) to indicate his fragmented thoughts brought about by what he sees, the House of Usher.

He uses personification, referring to "eye-windows" twice in paragraph one.

He uses sensory images repeatedly to create mood: the day is "soundless," the trunks of the trees are "white," and there is an "iciness" about him.

He uses analogy: he feels a depression somewhat like the "after-dream" of opium; "it is like "the hideous dropping off of the veil." 

One for good luck:  he uses metaphor in paragraph two when he says "it was the apparent heart of the request."

What is the plot of Grendel?

The character of Grendel was not one of the major characters of Beowulf. John Gardner took the character of Grendel and wrote a retelling of the epic, using Grendel's side as the point of view. Previously, Grendel was seen as a vicious, soulless murderer, but here we see a vastly different depiction of the creature. Grendel is a thinking, reasoning, and soulful creature. He grapples with ideas of language and its uses.

The story is not told in a chronological fashion, but a mix of flashbacks and the present. The young Grendel becomes fascinated with language as a communication device, and learns to speak. He is especially enamored of poetry. Ironically, the blind poet used Grendel in one of his songs as the epitome of evil. It gives the men a lasting impression of Grendel. Grendel uses the power of language after his rampage of the men at the hall. While he has killed and eaten many men, he finds it useful to use his intelligence and words to hurt and degrade men in a different way.

The reflections of Grendel change the assumptions the reader had in the original epic, and make this character more sympathetic.

What is the dramatic purpose of act 3, scene 5 in Romeo and Juliet?

This scene sheds light on why Juliet is so distanced from her mother.  When Juliet expresses her oppositon to marrying Paris (and thus defying her parents wishes for a monetarily beneficial match) Lady Capulet fumes:  "I would the fool were married to her grave!” Juliets mother will offer neither intervention nor consolation for her daughter.

This scene also serves to futher isolate Juliet from any adult who might give her wise guidance.  Even her beloved nurse abandons her; she too advocates marriage to Paris.  Juliet feels she has nowhere else to turn other than Friar Lawrence, whose occult-like schemes should be suspect to anyone with sense. 

The end of the act finds Juliet and Romeo alone in their immature ability to reason.  The result is the inevitable tragedy.

What is the irony at the end of Part 2 of Fahrenheit 451?

Being a fireman Montag puts himself in a compromising position by possessing all these books. He ends up confiding in his wife, which was a dire mistake because her loyalty is to the letter of the law and she turns him in.

Since it is the job of the fireman to burn books (start fire rather than put it out) at the end of part 2 it is ironic that the fireman have to go to the house of one of their own to burn books. Firemen should be setting the example for others in this society and instead Montag is a lover of literature.

What impression do you have of Portia and her relationship with Brutus from Act 2 of Julius Caesar?

Brutus and Portia have a strong and loving relationship.  Portia is naturally worried about Brutus, as she has observed a difference in his behavior.  He is not sleeping well, his temper is different, he is absent-minded and even when he is with her, he is not "with" her.  His mind is elsewhere and his distraction indicates to her, the observant wife, that something is wrong. 

She tries to convince him to talk with her...she even goes so far as to chide him for not sharing his internal conflicts with her.  She says she is "man" enough to handle it and that he should discuss matters with her in order to straighten them out in his head.  She tells him in 2. 1 that she is strong and loyal to him and she deserves to know the truth.  She threatens to give herself a voluntary wound in the thigh to prove that she can take the pain...both physically and emotionally...of whatever he has to say.

He responds with, "O ye gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife!"   He tells her he will share with her his problem later, and they are interrupted by a knock at the door.

Portia sends Lucius to observe Brutus at the Senate on March 15, and orders him to come back and report to her.  She is a good wife.

main features of restoration comedy with special reference to congreve the way of the worldnote on main features

The Answer I would like to give dividing into two parts as
it is quite long to encompass it within one post.

Part
1:

A Restoration comedy is a form of comedy which
flourished during the Restoration  in England (1660-1700). According to M. H. Abrams
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It deals
with the relations and intrigues of men and women living in a sophisticated upper-class
society, and relies for comic effect in large part on the wit and sparkle of the
dialogue - often in the form of repartee, a witty conversational
give and take which constitutes a verbal fencing match - and to a lesser degree, on the
violations of social standards and
decorum...

Actually, the
common features are: witty dialogue, intrigues in the plot, and most
importantly satirizing of that contemporary Restoration upper-class social
system. The way of the Word is an excellent example
of Restoration comedy, since it contains all the above
characteristics.

In The Way of the
World, the phrase "the way of the world" has been recurrently used, for
example, Fainall first uses it in Act 2 : "the Ways of Wedlock and this World", and
repeats in the third act : "all in the Way of the World" and also in the final act, And
at the end Mirabell's mocking approach: "'tis the Way of the World, Sir; of the Widows
of the World". This repetitive motif makes it clear that the play is concerned with the
problems of the social system. Marwood and Fainall are those who eavesdrop, blackmail
and play intrigues. Both Fainall and his wife pretend to be very nice with each other,
though, both know that each is wearing a facade. Marwood and Fainall use each other for
their own sake. Millamant feels comfortable when she is surrounded with men, though, she
is aware of the fact that the men are simply foolish. Lady Wishfort's sole desire is to
hold on youth and beauty. Millamant does not forget to bargain with Mirabell before
accepting her proposal in the proviso scene. Thus, Marwood's eavesdropping and
blackmailing, Lady Wishfort's continuous attempt to make herself look younger, or
Millamant's staying surrounded by fools and bargaining, and, Mrs. Fainall's being
deceived by Mirabell - all these express feminine vulnaribility in that contemporary
society. The falsehood in a marital relationship is depicted nicely through the Fainall
couples. In fact the aristocratic men in the Restoration society would do nothing but
playing cards and drinking chocolates, which are justly portrayed in The Way of the
World. So, undoubtedly, Congreve's play is a wonderful social satire in the face of a
witty comedy. In the epilogue, you will find these ironic lines quite a satiric evidence
of this: "Tho' they're on no Pretence for Judgement fit/ But that they have been Damned
for Want of Wit."

The intrigue, in the plot, is a
significant theme, and has been used as a tool to satirize the degradation and follies
in the social and individual behaviors. This intrigue is best expressed via the
hide-and-seek between the Fainalls. Both the husband and the wife lack love, faith and
adjustment. They hate each other, get involved in extra-marital affair, yet, both
pretend to be extremely loving to each other in front of others. Fainall bears his
marital life since his sole concern is his wife's money. And, this is the money which
makes Marwood play love-game with Fainall. Mirabell, too, plays with innocent Wishfort
to get her niece. So, all are planning and scheming against one another for their own
sake.

What is Iambic Pentameter? Can I have an example of it?

An iambic pentameter is a meter used in poetry. It also
used in drama as well. It is descriptive of rhythm that make up each line. Rhythm is
measured in syllables and these syllables are called feet. Pentameter means that there
is five feet.

Iambic pentameter is very common in english
poetry and drama. William Shakespeare used a lot of it in his
sonnets.

Here is an example of an iambic
pentameter:

Is this a dagger I see before me?

Here is how is split
up:

Is this / a dag- / ger I / see be- / fore
me?

Notice that each set contains two
syllables. One in stressed and one is unstressed.

What does it mean to write an essay on the significance and imagery of a play?

Your teacher probably wants you to give specific examples of the imagery used in the play and then tell how the use of this imagery adds to the play. Why does the playwright use the imagery? Imagery appeals to our five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing. What does the playwright use in the play to evoke an image in our head that lets us know what something in the play looks like, tastes like, smells like, feels like, or sounds like? That's what is meant by imagery.

For example, there are many references to decay in the lives of the Hunsdorfers that represent the theme of death in the play. The setting is the front room of the Hunsdorfer home, a rundown, wooden building that used to be a vegetable shop. The clutter of the house represents the broken bits and pieces of Beatrice's dreams. Just as she's trapped in this room during the whole play, she's trapped in these circumstances of her life. Think about the marigolds--what do they represent? Only through her marigolds does Tillie experience any growth and have the courage to pursue her dreams.

Once you get your examples of imagery that are used in the play, you can then tell how these examples make the play better or how they add to the themes of the play. I hope this helps. For more information, go to the links below. Good luck! 

ONLY CHAPTER 6: Explain the meaning of the closing lines of the novella.What do these lines reveal about Curley and Carlson in Of Mice and Men?

Curley and Carlson of John Steinbeck's Of Mice
and Men represent the alienated men who become brutish and cruel as a result
of their separation from friends and family with whom they can empathize.  Alone and
among strangers, these men lose the sesitivity that comes with sharing with others.  As
a socialist, Steinbeck believed deeply in the importance of the brotherhood of man; he
felt that left to his own, man becomes heartless, cruel in his fear of others in their
lonely vulnerability. 

Thus, Steinbeck's motif, the
strength to oppress others is itself born of weakness, is again interposed in the final
scene that sees the cruel and alienated men, Curley and Carlson, asking what is wrong
with Slim and George with ridicule in their tone.  They understand nothing of the
fraternity of men; they have lost their very souls to the cruel circumstances of the
isolated ranch and the alienation of the itinerant worker in the Depression era.  They
are but brutes; the one always ready to fight, the other ready to shoot old dogs. Much
of their humanity has been lost in the mouse maze of life in which they live, going from
lonely place to lonely place, whether it be a new location or to lonely home and
unfriendly bunkhouse, as is the case with Curley.

Who are the characters in Canto 3 of Dante's Inferno?

The new characters are the Uncommitted Souls that Dante and Virgil see when they enter the Vestibule of Hell. These were people who were not committed to God on earth because they couldn't make a decision for good or evil. Their punishment is to be stung by wasps and hornets as they rush about, and worms feed on their blood that drips to the floor.

The next new character Dante meets is Charon, the one who ferries travelers across the Acheron River to Hell. He reminds Dante and Virgil that those who enter Hell do not return, but Virgel tells Dante that this doesn't apply to Dante since he's still alive.

Why are weather forecasts valid only for a short period of time?

The atmosphere is so dynamic and ever changing. These
sometimes rapid changes in any one of many factors can cause weather patterns to shift
quickly. Weather changes in response to wind,water,temperature,precipitation, smog,
and several other factors. Everything from the jet stream in the troposphere to the
polar fronts plays a role in determining the weather
pattern.

Forecasts are what they are because of these rapid
environmental  changes that dictate the weather.

Smog and
pollution also play a role in weather patterns. Just ask someone who has lived in a city
with heavy smog.

Meteorologists have to stay busy to keep
up with all the daily patterns. They do updates many times a day. They have computer
software that helps them. Not to mention forest fires and volcanic eruptions, these to
bring about changes in the atmosphere that helps shape the
forecast.

What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

Nature fades but art is immortal. Though beautiful at moments in time, everything in nature enjoys but a moment of perfection. In time every virtue will be destroyed, every potential beauty ravaged by the elements, and every perfection will come to contain imperfections. In art, however, the essence of perfection will be captured. Though everything in the world dies and fades, the subject of poetry enjoys eternal life.

Please cite evidence(s) or experiences in Julius Caesar that served to convince Brutus that he was wrong to have killed Caesar.

The question of whether Brutus ever does come to the
realization that he was wrong to have killed Caesar is never fully addressed in the text
of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. That Brutus realizes the murder of
Caesar was a mistake becomes clear in Act IV, scene iii and Act V, scene iv when he
sees, and reports seeing, the Ghost of Caesar, but being mistaken can take any number of
meanings: a mistaken time, a mistaken group of people; a mistaken method,
etc.

Brutus certainly knows when he sees Caesar's Ghost for
the first time in his tent, in the latter half of Act IV, scene iii, with the promise
that they would meet again at Philippi, that the end of the deed begun on the Ides of
March will be his own ultimate defeat and his own death. Earlier in Act IV, scene iii he
cautions Cassius that they slew Caesar because he was "supporting robbers," so they must
themselves now not become corrupt and take "base bribes." In this Act Brutus is still
determined that they acted as honest citizens who wished to stop a corrupt train of
bribe takers, countenanced by Caesar, that defiled the
Republic.

There are several opinions about the meaning of
Caesar's Ghost calling itself Brutus's "evil spirit" ("Thy evil spirit, Brutus"). One
logical interpretation is that Caesar is asserting that he will have triumph over
Brutus, sort of like the contemporary movie quote, "I'm your worst nightmare," which we
all understand to be a direct threat to the hearer.

Here,
with the ghostly visitation, is where Brutus must certainly begin to entertain the idea
that some error of some sort was made because his only response is to agree that if they
must meet again at Philippi, then they will meet again at Philippi. His next response,
after the Ghost has faded, is to say that now that he has nerve back, he would converse
with the Ghost further. It may have been in this nonexistant conversation that we might
have learned more about Brutus's thoughts.

It is in Act V,
scene iv after seeing Caesar at the battlefield in Philippi that Brutus bows to the
comprehension that he acted wrongly, but it still isn't clear whether he is convinced
that is was wrong because his beliefs were mistaken or wrong because Caesar was too
powerful to go unavenged or wrong for some other reason: The reason for Brutus's
acquiescence to the wrong action is never made
clear.

Brutus's last action and last words do make clear
that he recognizes that Caesar has avenged himself through the opposing
forces:

"O
Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!
Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our
swords
In our own proper entrails." (Act V, scene
iii)

It is also clear that
Brutus dies in humility with enlightenment of some sort about the mistake he has made in
murdering Caesar: "Caesar, now be still:/ I kill'd not thee with half so good a will"
(Act v, scene v). But there is no textual evidence to show whether he believes he was
philosophically wrong about "supporting robbers;" morally wrong to think that
assassination was the right means for removing a corrupt government; intellectually
wrong in his definition and assessment of corruption; or personally wrong by being
deceived by the other individuals in the assassination plot.

In "Apprentices" in Whirligig, what is Brent and how is he able to fulfill this? Why is the chapter called "Apprentices"?

In the chapter "Apprentices," Brent has arrived in Florida
and begins making his whirligig on the beach, when a group of children find their way
onto his section of the beach. The children are fascinated by his work, and hound him
with questions, which he patiently answers. The children want to learn how to make
whirligigs like Brent, and Brent teaches them. The children return to the beach on
different days as Brent is working on the whirligig, and as Brent teaches them how to
make it, the children also teach him about the beach. As Brent is leaving, he worries a
bit about hurricanes blowing away the whirligig, but then he sees the children working
on skills he taught them and realizes that even if the wind blows his away, more
whirligigs will appear because the children will keep making
them. 

In this chapter, Brent is both a teacher and an
apprentice, and the children both apprentice themselves to Brent and teach Brent new
things. Brent is able to pass on some of his knowledge and start a new tradition of
whirligigs on the beach. The chapter is called "Apprentices" because he meets the
children who become his pupils (and in some ways, his teachers). In each place Brent
goes, he learns new lessons and touches someone else's life in a small way. In Florida,
he connects with these children over the building of the
whirligig.