How far is Iago justified in hating Othello?

Iago hates Othello for some of reasons. First reason could be that Othello promoted Cassio in his place; however, Iago wants it and he cosidered himself more superior than Cassio for that possition but when Othello promoted Cassio instead of Iago neglecting Iago's calibre. Hate for othello increases in Iago's heart. Secondly, Iago's thinks that othello has illegal relationship with her wife. Also, Iago hates him because Othello married Desdemona. Othello got the wife and according Iago Othello is not capable for such a beautiful and caring wife like.., Desdemona. He also hates him due to the differences in their race. Iago hates othello but the revenge he took is quite inappropriate. In his hate, he ruined the life of a married couple.

What strengths do management bring to the business?Management .who are they? How do they help the business?

Managers in a business have the responsibility for the
overall performance of the business. To meet this responsibility, managers set
objectives of the firm, determine its strategy, arranges for the resources required in
line with the strategy, and plan and direct the activities of the business for effective
utilization in meeting objectives of the business. In this way management plays a very
important role in performance and success of the
business.

Without managers to plan, organize, lead and
control the activities of the business the organizational resources will not be directed
that well toward business objectives, leading to inefficiencies and waste. In such
conditions the business will not be able to meet the competitive challenges and will be
forced to close down sooner of later.

Please explain and paraphrase "On The Life of Man," by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Here's the poem, in the original with, I believe, the
original title, with notes and source
included:

On the Life of
Man          
Sir Walter Ralegh

What is our
life? a play of passion,
Our mirth the musicke of division,
Our
mothers wombes the tyring houses be,
When we are drest for this short Comedy,

Heaven the Judicious sharpe spector is,                  5
That
sits and markes still who doth act amisse,
Our graves that hide us from the
searching Sun,
Are like drawne curtaynes when the play is done,

Thus march we playing to our latest rest,
Onely we dye in earnest,
that's no Jest.  

[AJ Notes:

musicke of
division,, the entr'acte, the music that marked
            the division
between acts.
tyring houses, on the Elizabethan stage, the 'tiring
house',
            from "attiring house" was the room where the
actors
            got dressed before a performance.
spector,
spectator, with a play on 'spectre'.
still, always, ever.
latest,
last.]

Source:
The Anchor Anthology of
Sixteenth-Century Verse.
Richard S. Sylvester, Ed.
Garden City, NY:
Anchor Press, 1974. 341.

The poem compares life to
participating in a play.  In short, the speaker writes
that:

• our life=a play that's
  passionate


• our laughter=the music played between acts of
  a play


• our mother's wombs=the place where we get dressed
  to prepare for the short life that is a comedy


• heaven=a
  sharp audience that corrects us when we behave
  badly


• graves=that which hides us from the heat of the sun
  (life's difficulties?), and is like the drawing of a curtain when a play is
  over


• this is how we march toward our death, and death is
  serious, not funny

Thus, life is a comedy, to
the speaker, but death is not. I'll leave it to you to draw the meanings from the
metaphors.

Why were God and the Sears Roebuck catalogue linked in Jeanne's mind in Farewell To Manzanar?

It doesn't really seem like God and the Sears catalog
ought to be linked in someone's mind, but they were for Jenne during her time at
Manzanar.

The reason why they were linked is that both of
them represented things that could not be gotten there at the camp.  Both God and the
Sears catalog represented good stuff, stuff that they were not able to easily get while
in the camp.

Jeanne even starts sort of confusing the two. 
She prays for dried apricots, but she fantasizes that they will come in a package from
Sears.

What is the metaphorical significance of Oswald's shouting, "the sun --the sun" in the last part of the play?

The sun represents light and truth.  However, in this play, deception is a central theme.  All the truths are hidden by the characters, who manipulate, hide and use subterfuge.  They must pay the consequences for this. 

The main conflict of this play stems from the fact that Mrs. Alving feels remorse for her part in helping to deceive the world about what sort of man Captain Alving was. She feels that she should have told the truth to Oswald long ago. If she had been honest with him all along, the disease that he inherited from his father may still have been unavoidable, but she could have saved him the confusion that he felt upon finding out that his father, who he thought was morally pure, had syphilis. His own character might have been less cynical if the truth about his father had not come as such a shock. 

Oswald's last words are "the sun" in recognition of what he has missed and avoided throughout his life. 

Why does Beowulf hang Grendel's arm from the rafters of Herot?

In addition to Rene's answer, I would also argue that the showing off the Grendel's arm is a way for Beowulf to symbolically "shout from the rafters" his success where other warriors have failed.  He quite literally lords his success over them.  Remember, Grendel has been snacking on Danish knights for a dozen years and none of the men could stop him. 

Beowulf could just have easily left the arm where it was, or chucked it into the sea after its dying owner.  Instead, he uses the arm to cement his own reputation. 

Why does Montresor feel he has the right to take justice into his own hands?

Montresor is insane, but you should also consider his family's motto that no one harms a Montresor without being punished. Even his family's crest is of a snake biting a heel, so acts of revenge run in his family. We don't know whether other people in his family took revenge to the extent that Montresor does against Fortunato, but he believes he has the right to take justice in his own hands partly because of his family's  name, but mostly because of his madness. He has taken revenge to the extreme, and the reader isn't sure whether Fortunato even did anything to Montresor. Because he's insane, Montresor may have just imagined that Fortunato had insulted him.

Make an argument that Progressivism either did or didn't have a positive lasting impact on America.Historians disagree about the lasting impact of...

There is no doubt that Progressivism has had an impact on
American domestic policies during the 20th century and they continue into the 21st
century. Whether the Progressive agenda has had a positive or negative impact on
society would depend upon ones' perspective, which in many cases resides in ones'
politics. To be fair I offer a general response from both sides of the fence. It's up to
you to decide which side you are on and argue your
position.

Good Luck
!!! 

Positive impact: Progressivism
through government legislative policies has increased the quality of life for many
Americans. Some of the policies include child labor laws, building codes (living
conditions and fire escapes) mandatory education, social security, financial
institution regulation, min. wage, medicare, medicaid, and project head
start.   

Negative impact: Progressivism through government
legislative policies has increased the size of the federal government and higher
taxes. The increased size of government has led to bureaucratic inefficiency and public
abuse. In some cases social welfare policies have led to a sense of entitlement which is
counterproductive to both the individual and the greater
society.

Either way Progressivism has left it's mark on
American society.

i need 8 quotes from Of Mice And Men about the american dream of lennie,george,crooks and curley,ASAP please its due on sunday

Hi Sean,

I'll get you
started, but I think you're fully capable of getting a few
yourself.

Just to make sure you understand what you're
looking for, within the context of OMAM, is that America holds endless possibilities. In
the words of James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of
America:

The
American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and
fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It
is not a dream of motor cars and high wages, but a dream of social order in which each
man and each woman shall be able to achieve the fullest stature of which they are
capable of, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the
circumstances of birth or
position.

If we take a look
at George, when he reflects on what he and Lennie will have, he is expressing the
possibility of the American dream:

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Well,' said George, 'we'll have a big vegetable
patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens. And when it rains in the winter, we'll just say
the hell with goin' to work, and we'll build up a fire in the stove and set around it
an' listen to the rain comin' down on the
roof...'

Given that George
and Lennie have a lived a poor live and migrant farm workers, these commodities and
comforts will mean a great deal to them.

Think about
Lennie's "catch phrase", Crooks's conversation with Lennie in the barn, and you should
be on the right track.

What mood is stressed at the outset of the play?

The mood is tense and suspenseful in Act I of the play. The ghost appearances leave everyone with a different interpretation for the ghost's arrival, yet none of them are of a positive nature. Hamlet is the only one privy to the ghost's need for vengeance.

Hamlet is also presenting tense and mysterious behavior. His mother speculates it is from his father's death and Claudius is suspicious of it, as well, but for different reasons. Hamlet is contemplating the actions he will take, yet he has not yet committed to act on the ghost's words.

This creates the suspenseful tension that sets us up for the coming events. Although the suspense of Hamlet's inaction will last most of the play.

How is Darnay's philosophy different from his uncles' in book two chapter 9?

I think that the differences between Darnay and his uncle, the Marquis, are deeper than merely the circumstances of their lives.  Darnay appears to be deeply influenced  by the Enlightenment Philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries, led by thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire.  Enlightenment philosophy held that all men are equal before their creator and that all men are responsible for contributing to society.  Human reason was elevated above all else.  We can see the reflection of these philosophies in Darnay's rejection of his family fortune which was based on birth rather than ability, and his desire to earn his own way in society.  We can also see it in his concern for the peasantry under his uncle's control and in his determination to help his steward even though it puts him in danger.

His uncle, the Marquis, reflects the older, more medieval school of thought which maintains that certain rights and privileges come to a man because of his birth.  He believed that his noble blood made him superior to those beneath his station and that this was a part of God's plan.  In earlier medieval thought, these privileges came with distinct responsibilites as well, but by the Marquis' time the concept of noble obligation was lost and only the privileges remained.  Thus each represented a distinct philosophy which would have been known to Dicken's contemporary readers.

Describe Jonas's consciousness while he received the memory in The Giver.

When Jonas receives the memories from the Giver, his
consciousness is sort of mixed.  His consciousness is mixed between his real life and
the memory that he the Giver is giving to him.

So, in the
first time when he is given a memory, Jonas is aware that he is still lying in the
room.  But at the same time he is really living what happens in the memory.  Similarly,
he thinks words that mean something to him in real life (mound) but at the same time he
feels words that he didn't know before (hill).

How does Anton Chekhov treat romance in his play, The Bear?

In Anton Chekov's The Bear, I think
there are two distinctions in the play with regard to "affairs of the
heart."

First, Popova venerates the memory of her dead
husband, but not out of love. He was a terrible man, cheating on her and making fun of
her, but she is determined to "show" him in death, how dedicated she was and
remains, for the rest of her life. There is no
love in this scenario: only Popova's need to prove (perhaps mostly to herself) that she
had value in the marriage.

When Smirnov enters, romance is
nowhere to be found. He is there to collect a debt, which he desperately needs and
Popova is unable to give him what he wants. This parallels their early interaction: he
has a hardened heart with regard to women, but Popova is in no place in her life where
she can help him—or would even consider it: as we see when he tells her he "likes" her.
To himself he notes:

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SMIRNOV. 
I
absolutely like her! Absolutely! Even though her cheeks are dimpled, I like her! I'm
almost ready to let the debt go... and I'm not angry any longer.... Wonderful
woman!

When he refuses to
hurt her, she demands to know why. Is he afraid? Finally he admits how he feels and she
is intensely insulted:

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POPOVA. 
You lie!
Why won't you fight?

SMIRNOV.

Because... because you... because I like
you.

POPOVA.

[Laughs]

He likes me! He dares to say that he likes
me!

However, it would seem
that Chekov is saying that romance is like nature: unpredictable. It does not always
come easily, perhaps satirizing the idea of love at first sight. Chekov may also be
making note that there is a "fine line between love and hate," for at one moment Smirnov
is ready to duel...

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SMIRNOV. 
It's about
time we got rid of the prejudice that only men need pay for their insults. Devil take
it, if you want equality of rights you can have it. We're going to fight it
out!

POPOVA. 
With pistols?
Very well!

The more
passionate she becomes to kill him (perhaps her way of taking out her frustrations she
harbors because of her worthless marriage), the more intrigued Smirnov becomes: she is
not like the simpering women he has known in the past, putting on fragile airs and using
the men around them. In recognizing this, Chekov allows Smirnov to confirm in Popova the
very things she has been trying to find within herself, to feel worthier than her
husband ever gave her credit for being.

And just as quickly
as he was ready to duel, now Smirnov has fallen in love with Popova and sweeps her off
her feet.

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SMIRNOV.

[Approaching her]

How angry I am with myself! I'm in love
like a student, I've been on my knees....

…[Puts his arms
around her] 
I shall never forgive myself for
this....

POPOVA. 
Get away
from me! Take your hands away! I hate you! Let's go and
fight!

[A prolonged
kiss…]

Romance, Chekov seems
to tell the audience, is not an easy affair, but neither is it as impossible as it may
first seem—at least when the "right" people are involved.

What is a character trait that describes Juliet Capulet and give two quotes that support it in Romeo and Juliet.

To me, Juliet's major character trait is that she's
fourteen.  I know, that's not a character trait, but it leads to one.  I think her major
character trait is that she is overdramatic and gets too caught up in her new love.  I
think that if either she or Romeo had been a bit more mature, things could have turned
out a lot better.  Here are a couple of quotes that could support
this:

The first is from Act I, Scene 5.  Romeo has just
left and Juliet is head over heels.  She says:

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Go ask
his name: if he be married.
My grave is like to be my wedding
bed.

Sounds dramatic, huh? 
If he's married, I'm totally going to die, OMG!!

Another
one could be from Act II, Scene 5.  She's sent the nurse off to talk to Romeo.  She's
back and she's all complaining that she's tired and sore.  But Juliet can't wait.  She
says, for example

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I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.

Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my
love?

Yeah, yeah, I know
you're tired.  So what did Romeo say??

Why does Roger shove his way past Jack, only just managing not to edge him aside?

Roger, always eager for violence, is edging past Jack in order to "show him" how to attack SamnEric.  Roger is the symbol of animal brutality, but it is a brutality barely contained by authority.  Jack is the authority.  Roger is shoving Jack, almost but not quite pushing him aside, in a symbolic action to discard human morals and turn fully to animal desire.

What do the Master's words/actions tell us about him and how do the Lake-men escape Smaug?

The Master of Lake Town does not speak very often or say anything of substance.  The reader can see the weakness and selfishness of his character through his words or lack of them. When the Dwarves first appear at his dinner with the Elves, he asks a question as he hesitates unsure what to do.  The people cheer Thorin so the Master just goes along with what the people want at that moment.  When the Dwarves are leaving the Master speaks fair and insincerely to them.  He provides them with supplies which is cheaper than keeping them on as indefinite guests.He doesn't speak at all to urge his men or encourage them during the Dragon attack, he tried to escape on his gilded boat, while his men, including Bard, fought the dragon.  Later when the people want Bard as king, he uses his words to make the people forget his cowardly behavior and turn their anger on the Dwarves again showing his weak character.

The people of the lake protect themselves by jumping in water. The Master tries to escape in his boat.

What is the main theme in the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night" by Dylan Thomas?

Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night" was
written as a plea to his dying father, David John Thomas, an English grammar teacher who
had a powerful influence in his life.  Ironically, Dylan Thomas himself died a year
later.

While the poem has three parts to it, it is an
affirmation of life to the last breath, a refusal to die quietly and passively.  In the
first part, the speaker provides an introduction to the speaker's message.  Then, in the
four stanzas that follow, the speaker provides examples of what he means.  In telling
his father to "rage against the night," the speaker offers examples of what wise, good,
brave, and wild men have done:

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Old age should burn and rave at close of
day

Good men,....crying how bright their frail deeds might
have danced in a green
bay

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Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Grave men,
near death, who see with blinding
sight

Finally, in the last
stanza, the tone is much more personal as the speaker addresses father exhorting him to
fight against death as a man should.

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And, you, my father, there on that sad
height,/Curse, bless me now, with your fierce tears, /I
pray

Do not go gentle into the
night.

On what basis can a piece of literature can be called modern? What are the basic elements of modernity in literature?

The accumulations of the refined heritages and cultures of
the different races , the progressions of their thoughtless ,the reformations of habits
are certainly the modern elements of
life.

Literature reflects life ,and it is life enhancing
.The fashion of an age , its cultures , and its acceptance of values need to nourish the
inner life of a society .The time gap , I think , matters little .Which is best for us
 ,- we can't tell .But we can feel what makes life better .These are  the wholesomeness
of life , restrictions to certain perversions , controls of the impulses , values ,
discriminations on moral issues ,
etc.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , Shakespeare's Measure for
Measure , Merchant of Venice , Hardy's The Return of the Native , Austen's Pride
and Prejudice , Dickens,- Hard Times ,-are some of the literary works in progression
that have their  claim as modern literature .Every one of them has permanent values .If
we compare them with 20th -century literature as , Joyce's Ulysses , and Osborne's,-Look
Back In Anger , we find -the same wine in a new bottle .They have change only in degree
of representation , not in kind .

Beginning in Act 2, Scene 2, why does Shakespeare change Hamlet’s language from poetry to prose for much of the rest of the play? act 2, scene 2

Shakespeare uses prose for specific reasons: to denote madness, to mark a character who is of a low station in life, in letters, etc.  In Act 2, sc. 2, when Hamlet is talking with Polonius, the prose serves two purposes.  First, it helps to make Hamlet appear mad, and second, it shows Hamlet's contempt for Polonius by treating Polonius like he is lowly.  When Hamlet is talking with the players, he talks in prose, possibly, to attempt to be on their level because he is a gracious host.  Throughout the play, whenever Hamlet wants to seem mad, he speaks in prose.

What does Catherine do immaturely to Edgar, Heathcliff, Nelly, and Hindley? I need all of them, please. Thank you!!

You have asked a big question here, that probably could be
counted as lots of separate questions. So instead of detailing how Catherine acts with
each of these characters, I will offer a few comments about her character as a whole in
the novel, and then you can go back and pick out how she acts towards others,
identifying how she acts immaturely.

In fact, immature
seems to be a good place to start when we think of Catherine. You need to remember some
of the symbolism in the novel to understand her character. The two conflicting forces of
society and nature are summed up in the two households and families - Wuthering Heights
and the Earnshaws and Thrushcross Grange and the Lintons. As a child of the Earnshaws
and being brought up in Wuthering Heights, Catherine and her character are synonymous
with the brooding, changeable moors that loom over the novel. Consider her burial groun
- she is not buried in the churchyard or with the other Earnshaws, but he is buried “in
a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have
climbed over it from the moor.” The moor and her wanderings on it with Heathcliff sum up
so much of her character, and it is fitting that she is put to rest
there.

Note too the conflict that tears apart her life. Her
stay with the Lintons awakens her awareness of class, thus leading her to marry Edgar,
because of her belief that it would "degrade" her to marry Heathcliff. Yet obviously she
shares a far deeper love and spiritual connection with Heathclif, and by extension,
nature and the moors. Remember how she describes her relationship with Heathcliff in
Chapter 9. She declares: "I am Heathcliff", pointing towards a
profundity never attainable in her marriage with
Edgar.

This conflict causes Catherine to act selfishly and
very immaturely as she balances up these different affections. She seems to need to have
her way and throws tantrums if she does not get her own way. Consider her selfishness
and desire to hurt in Chapter 12, and also her
self-centredness:

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"If I were only sure it would kill him (Edgar),"
she interrupted, "I´d kill myself directly! These three awful nights, I´ve never closed
my lids - and oh, I´ve been tormented! I´ve been haunted, Nelly! But I begin to fancy
you don´t like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each
other, they could not avoid loving
me."

We see here a Catherine
that has never really grown up - she still feels she should be loved and adored by
everyone and have her own way. When she doesn´t she protests at least that if she knew
it would kill Edgar she would gladly kill herself. Thus Catherine is a character whose
love is marked more by mutual suffering than mutual regard. A dangerous woman to become
involved with!

In Hills Like White Elephants, are both characters static, and is there indirect characterization?

Well, no, I can't confirm the first element. The characters weren't fully static. There was a decision reached in the story—to have an abortion—and this will reshape both of them, especially the woman, and their relationship.

 

There was, however, considerable indirect characterization in the story. Hemingway characterizes the two characters by what they say, the pacing, what they don't say, how they interact, descriptions of the landscape, etc.

List 3 ways that sediments in the ocean help scientists understand ancient climates.

Sediments on the ocean floor are like a history book for
the Earth.  It is a large scale, long term collection point for dead and decaying
organisms, rock, sand, etc. that can tell scientists at least the following three
things:

1)  What kind of organisms lived at the time of
that layer of sediment, which tells us what temperature ranges were, salinity levels, or
food systems present

2)  Level of volcanic or tectonic
activity at that time and place based on the age and structure/makeup of the
sediments/rocks

3)  Oxygen/carbon content of the
ocean/atmosphere at the time the organisms were alive or when the sediment was
formed.

Please interpret and provide quotes (including pg. #) from Of Mice and Men which deal with the following topics:a) hope (dreams)b) social...

Since there are differing publications of John Steinbeck's
novella Of Mice and Men, providing a page number may not be of any
assistance.  So, the section/chapter will be noted.

The
dream of George and Lennie, Crooks the stabler, declares is
that of all the men:  "Seems like ever'guy got land in his head."  Even Curley's wife
expresses her hope of which she has now despaired:

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'Whatta ya think I am, a kid?  I tell ya I could
of went with shows.  Not jus'one, niether.  An' a guy tol' me he could put me in
pitchers...' [Section 4]

Of
course, the main dream is that of George and Lennie who hope to have a ranch someday
with rabbits and corn and cows and pigs, so they can "eat off th' fatta th' land." In
the very first section, George recites the dream for Lennie, who delights in hearing
it:

'Guys like
us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.  They got no
family.....They ain't got nothing to look forward to...With us it ain't like that.  We
got a future.  We got somebody to talk to.  [Section
1]

Lennie, then, expresses
how they help each
other:

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'But not us!  An' why?  Because...becuse I go you
to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.'   [Section
1 ]

In this first section,
also, George tells Lennie to hide in the bushes where they camp if he gets into trouble
in the future and he will come for Lennie:

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'Well, look. Lennie--if you jus' happen to get in
trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an'hide in the
brush.'

The
innocence and child-like nature of Lennie is also conveyed as he tries to
hide the mouse he has killed in his pocket and when he wants to pet the pretty blond
hair of Curley's wife:

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Lennie's big fingers fell to stroking her
hair....'O, that's nice!' and he stroked harder....She jerked her head sideways and
Lennie's fingers closd on her hair and hung on. [Section
5]

Among the men there
is discrimination.  Curley wears boots with heels "to
show that he is not one of the working men."  Carlson is cruel to old Candy and shoots
his decrepit dog because he can while he would like to do the same to Candy.  The racial
discrimination of Crooks is glaringly apparent as he is relegated to living in the barn
with the mules, not in the bunkhouse.  He explains to Lennie why he is not wanted in the
bunkhouse,

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'Causee I'm black.  They play cards in there, but
I can't play because I'm black.  They say I stink.  Well, I tell you, you all of you
stink to me.'  [Section 4]

Can the female characters of The Great Gatsby be considered as victims of a patriarchal (male dominated)society?

I think that one could argue that while the women in
Fitzgerald's book might not be pure victims, they are controlled by the patriarchal
elements present.  It is difficult to find a woman who is able to assert her own sense
of identity in the novel.  The construction of women in the novel is one where they are
a part of the social configuration that has confused wealth and value into the same
element.  Daisy, for example, might have some inclinations to break away from the
existence, but the reality is that she is a part of it and, to a certain, extent
controlled by it.  Jordan is an extension of this system and has little in way of an
identity outside of this system where gossip, parties, and lavish homes are the basis of
reality.  These women are not crushed underneath this system, but rather have been
conditioned to not go against it, and to not stress anything outside of it.  They have
been victimized by the predicament of being unable to bite the hand that has fed
them.

How is suspense created in the story?

Suspense in this story is created by the ticking clock and the tension of completing their demolition without being caught or stopped before they are done.

The boys believe they have two days before Mr. Thomas will return, yet on the second day , the boys are shocked to discover he is back early. The suspenseful question becomes, what will they do to the houses owner? They do not wish to hurt the old man, so they lock him up in an outhouse.

Yet, the danger for him is still present with the collapse of the house. Each new catastrophe brings the suspense of not knowing the outcome for Mr. Thomas until the very end.

In Chapter 30, what insight is gained into Heck Tate's character?

We learn that he is going to cover up the murder of Bob Ewell.  He is doing this to protect Boo.  He doesn't want this reclusive and odd man exposed to the entire community in a trial.  So he explains to Atticus, who initially thinks Jem is responsible for Ewell's death, that Mr. Ewell just fell on his knife.  He even goes so far as to demonstrate what happened using a knife he took of a drunk man earlier (this is Mr. Ewell who was drunk when he attacked the kids).  While he wasn't able to do much for an innocent man, Tom Robinson (or maybe he wasn't willing to do too much for him - though Atticus explains earlier to Jem how Heck Tate really was on Tom's side), he is willing to cover for a guilty man, Boo.  Remember, Boo might be odd and reclusive, but he is white.  Is that the main reason why he covers up the murder?

In chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby, how does Nick compare Daisy and Jordan?

Both of these answers seem to be correct, but in regards to chapter seven, a quote of Nick's compares them as well - "But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age". The answers above compare Jordan and Daisy in a similar way, but to compare is to also note the differences. I gather from Nick's quote that he recognizes that Jordan, unlike Daisy, would not let abandoned dreams weigh her down, such as how Daisy's lingering love for Gatsby that had remained for 5 years caused a fall-out between her, Gatsby, and Tom. Jordan, unlike Daisy, is wise enough to avoid that kind of situation.

If you HAD to, how would you blame the Prince, Montagues, Capulets and Mercutio for the outcome of Romeo and Juliet play.this is if you absolutely...

Personally, I'd add Romeo and Juliet to that list, too,
but here is why I think the ones you've mentioned should be blamed for the outcomes in
William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.  First, the Prince
should be blamed because he did not need to banish Romeo.  Also, if he had just put an
end to all of the violence and ridiculousness of the feud before Tybalt's death, none of
the subsequent events would have even happened.  Mercutio was being hot-headed the night
he fought Tybalt.  He should have known better than to fight him, especially when he
must have known how much it would bother Romeo.  He was not being very loyal to him at
that moment.  Obviously, most of the blame should be placed on the Montagues and
Capulets.  Their feud had been going on for so long that its main cause had been
forgotten.  They simply knew that they hated each other, and that hate kept manifesting
itself from generation to generation.  If they would have just gotten over themselves a
bit and been mature, their children would not have died. 

Where in Night does Elie indicate that the only reason he is still alive is pure luck?

This will require you to pour through the narrative in a
rather intense manner.  I am not sure you are going to find a quote that discusses the
issue of "pure luck" as being critical to his survival.  The reason being is that the
nature of the narrative is so emotionally wrenching and so honest from an affective
point of view that the cerebral issues of luck and calculation are not as evident.  At
the same time, the implication of luck being a survival tendency implies some level of
contentment about such a predicament.  I am not really sure that Wiesel is going to take
this line of thought.  For example, he actually points out to moments where critical
decisions were made and "bad luck" followed.  The decision for he and his father to
leave the infirmary and try to run away on foot was one such instance, for the infirmary
patients were saved and liberated two days later.  You might want to expand the
discussion a bit and incorporate what it means to experience a loss of faith.  This
might not be exactly where you are going with the luck concept, but in discussing how
religious faith was withered during the Holocaust, the randomness of survival is
something that can be quite a logical move.  In this light, identifying the incident
with Moshe the Beadle, the first night Eliezer arrives in the camps and sees sights that
cause him to compose the poem, "Never Shall I Forget," as well as the hanging of the
small child could all be instances where quotations from the text could help discuss
Eliezer's repudiation of his own spiritual sense of self as being critical for his
survival.

In A Rose for Emily what is Faulkner doing when he uses (towards the end) a lyrical and metaphorical account of old people's sense of the past?

Faulkner is demonstrating the human propensity to re-write the past.  The old people wanted to pretend that they knew her well and cared for her, but this clearly was not the case.  This theme is as much a storyline as is Emily's gruesome descent.  In Part V, Faulkner writes:

They held the funeral on the second day, with the
town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very
old men-some in their brushed Confederate uniforms-on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years.

The way Faulkner makes this one long nearly stream-of-consciousness passage is the way the older generation seeks to comfort themselves, and quickly.  The men want to believe they had shown her social respect by including her in such activities as dancing, the women bring "store bought" flowers, a touch too little, too late; they didn't care enough to comfort her in life, and even in death their gestures are hollow, as are their feigned expressions of grief. 

Describe the character of the nurse and her actions in "Romeo and Juliet."

The nurse is kind but coarse, loving but ineffectual, both a mother and not really a mother.  She gives poor advice and is not a good disciplinarian.  While she often provides comic relief, the character of the nurse was meant to be seen as problematic. 

As a surrogate mother, her replacement of the biological mother would have been seen as problematic for the majority of Shakespeare's audiences.  For one thing, she is of the servant class.  Although now we tend to think of the Renaissance elite mothers as constantly going to wet-nurses for the care of their infants, this simply was not the case.  Rudolph Bell, who studied Renaissance mothering extensively, said the overriding opinion was that "mom should do it."  Back in this era, it was believed that a woman's breast milk also carried with it character traits.  The nurse's tendancy towards bawdiness, her lack of education, her poor reasoning all are hints at Juliet's ultimate fate.

What does this line from The Great Gatsby mean: "The vitality of his illusion had gone beyond Daisy, beyond everything."?

The line is about Gatsby's obsession.  Gatsby had become consumed with the idea that he could one day win Daisy.  Gatsby had met Daisy some five years earlier and fell completely in love with her,  but Daisy decided to marry Tom Buchanan, who had much more money than he.  Gatsby believed that if he could be wealthy too, Daisy would be within his grasp.  He amasses a fortune much larger than Tom's, chiefly by means of underworld activities.  Gatsby erroneously belives that Dasiy will leave Tom and marry him instead.

Nick makes this comment as he watches Daisy and Gatsby in their long awaited reunion.  The rest of the line reads, "He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."  The ornateness of the home, the lavish parties, everything shows a man obsessed and unwilling to acknowledge Daisy's considerable flaws or the fact that she will never love him as he wants to be loved, no matter what he does or does not do. 

What kind of a person is the Squire?

George Eliot introduces Squire Cass to her readers in Ch.9
in a very unflattering manner:

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"a tall, stout man of sixty, with a face in
which the knit brow and rather hard glance seemed contradicted by the slack and feeble
mouth. His person showed marks of habitual neglect, his dress was
slovenly."

He is the
wealthiest man in Raveloe  and lives in the Red House. He is a very vain person,
conscious of and complacent about his superior status in that small village. Although a
man of high renown in Raveloe, Squire Cass is respected for his money and influence,
rather than for his character:

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The Squire had been used to parish homage all
his life, used to the presupposition that his family, his tankards, and everything that
was his, were the oldest and best; and as he never associated with any gentry higher
than himself, his opinion was not disturbed by comparison.
Ch.9.

He is the
representative of the 'idle rich' who do not have to work for a living but spend their
lives in idle luxury:

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"The squire was always in higher spirits than we
have seen him in at the breakfast table, and felt it quite pleasant to fulfill  the
hereditary duty of being noisily jovial and patronising: the large silver snuff box was
in active service and was offered without fail to all the neighbours from time to time
however often they might have declined the favour."
Ch.11

He is the father of
four sons, including Godfrey and Dunstan. He is intent on keeping his family legacy
intact and therefore is very demanding on his sons, who never seem to live up to his
expectations. He is not affectionate towards his sons and is often prone to fits of
anger towards them:

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"The Squire was purple with anger before his son
had done speaking, and found utterance difficult"
Ch.9.

Further during this
same conversation, Squire Cass speaks to Godfrey
while

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"frowning and casting an angry glance at his son"
Ch.9.

Such outbursts and
glowering betray the Squire's lack of self-control and easy loss of
composure.

For the most part, however, Squire Cass is not
one to be vigorously involved in much of anything. Aside from his ranting and raving at
his son Godfrey, he is rather inclined to simply spend his days in easy luxury. And
while he puts on a pretense of being somehow occupied, at least in his mind, Eliot
reveals,

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"The Squire's life was
quite as idle as his sons"
Ch.9.

Summary of "Has Globalization passed its Peak" by Rawi Abdelal

In this article, Abdelal and Segal argue that
globalization has passed its peak, but that is not the same as saying that it is dying
out.  The authors' argument can be pretty well summed up in two
sentences:

The
technological revolution that has driven the current wave of globalization will
continue. ... At the same time, certain barriers will start to
rise.

So the authors are
saying that there is no stopping the technological changes that make it easier to have a
global economy.  However, they say, the benefits of globalization have not been made
clear and leaders have not been good enough at showing their constituents why
globalization is good for them.

Because of this, there is a
lot of demand for policies that limit globalization.  The authors argue that the US, in
particular, must ensure that these demands should not cause an end to
globalization.

What is Atticus's explanation of rape in To Kill a Mockingbird?

This is a good question. As Scout learns about the trial, she naturally asks what rape is, as Tom Robinson is on trial because of an alleged rape. So, at first Scout asks Calpurnia. Calpurnia feels uncomfortable in giving an answer, so she tells Scout to ask her father, Atticus. When Atticus finally comes home, Scout asks. Here is the dialogue: 

“What’s rape?” I asked him that night. Atticus looked around from behind his paper. He was in his chair by the window. As we grew older, Jem and I thought it generous to allow Atticus thirty minutes to himself after supper.

He sighed, and said rape was carnal knowledge of a female by force and without consent.

“Well if that’s all it is why did Calpurnia dry me up when I asked her what it was?”

As you can see Atticus was not able to deflect the question. So, he answered her in a direct manner. However, he spoke is a lawyerly way - carnal knowledge of a female by force without consent.

The funny thing is that Scout acted like she understood this definition, when in fact she had no clue what Atticus was saying. The point is that Atticus gave her an answer, but it was above Scout's head and understanding. In doing so, this answer satisfied Scout (she was given an answer), but also did not explain what rape was, as Scout was too young to understand. In the end, Scout and Atticus were satisfied. 

In Chapter 4, why does Roger, throwing stones at one of the littluns, aim just to miss?

Roger is a bully. He entertains himself by producing reactions of sorrow, anger, or fear in others because that makes him feel powerful. As Roger and Maurice come down to the beach, Roger heads right for the littluns who are playing there, destroying their sandcastles with their landscaping.This actually doesn't produce the result Roger was hoping for because the children were not at that moment concerned with the castles Roger had destroyed. Only Percival starts crying because of the sand Maurice, and then Johnny, gets in his eyes. So Roger continues to watch the littluns, perhaps looking for another way to get under their skin. When Henry wanders off down the beach, Roger follows him surreptitiously, certainly with mischief in mind. 

Interestingly, Henry stops to entertain himself with some little transparent creatures living in the tide pools. In a way, Henry is doing to the sea creatures what Roger seeks to do to him. Henry blocks the path of the sea creatures and confuses them without actually bringing any physical harm to them. Yet "he became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things." 

Roger, hiding from Henry under some palms, is showered by falling nuts that don't actually hit him. This gives him the idea to confuse and tease Henry. He picks up some stones and throws them around Henry, taking care not to hit him, not because of any concern for Henry but merely in observance of a "taboo of the old life." Henry looks around each time a rock falls near him, and Roger hides. In this way, Roger creates an emotion in Henry of confusion. Again, however, it is not the exact emotion Roger seeks. Roger was trying to create fear, but Henry laughs off the teasing and walks away. Nevertheless, Roger is satisfying his need for power and control, to make someone else yield to him. Later this innate desire for control and mastery finds fulfillment in his delivering the death stab to the sow and in his rolling the rock that kills Piggy.

Why does Hamlet tell his friends that he intends to appear to be insane? Is Hamlet pretending or is he actually going insane? Explain.the question...

Hamlet tells Horatio, and incidentally Marcellus (because he is privy to knowledge that the ghost has appeared and spoken to Hamlet), that he will feign an "antic disposition" because, in a very human way (and Hamlet is nothing if not very human) he needs an ally. Realize, Horatio is the only character in the play who is totally honest. Even Hamlet presents a false visage to everyone else in the play, save Horatio.

Hamlet is not crazy. His antic disposition is all guile, a shield and delay tactic that affords him some time to plan and test his theories. Claudius knows this from observing Hamlet in the nunnery scene "... what he spake, though it lacked form a little,/ Was not like madness." And any reader or theatergoer would be wise to not mistake moments of desperate passion for madness. The “mad in craft” aspects of the play give Shakespeare a chance to work through one of his favorite motifs–the metatheatrical awareness that so many of his characters possess. Throughout the play Hamlet is actor, director and playwright–never more keenly aware of his own role on the stage than in Act V when mortally wounded he says to the court who have been watching their monarchy implode:

You that look pale, and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time, as this fell sergeant death
Is strict in his arrest, oh I could tell you –

What is the irony in the following statement from "The Most Dangerous Game"?Rainsford says, "The Cape buffalo is the most dangerous big game." The...

The irony is in the meaning of the word "game". This is a pun, a play on words. When Rainsford uses the word, he's referring to animals that are hunted by men, such as bear. Zaroff is using the word "game" to mean the hunting of men is a game to him, much like playing chess. This is why Zaroff decided to hunt men--they are more of a challenge. His hunting "game" becomes one of wits between Zaroff and the men he hunts.

Why do Mercutio and Benvolio think that Romeo avoids them after the party?

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,
Benvolio and Mercutio think Romeo has gone off to be alone or sulk, because Rosaline
does not love him. 

They look for him and, at first,
Mercutio says that Romeo "hath stolen him home to bed."  He says he's gone home to
bed.

Benvolio, however, points out that he saw Romeo leap
over an orchard wall:

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He ran this way, and leapt this orchard
wall.

And Mercutio assumes he
has gone to sulk.  He makes fun of Romeo, pretending to conjure him up in the name of
Rosaline:

I
conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,

By her high
forehead and her scarlet lip.

By her fine foot, straight
leg, and quivering thigh,

And the demesnes that there
adjacent lie,

That in thy likeness thou appear to
us.

And Benvolio, telling
Mercutio that it's time to go,  concludes that Romeo

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...hath hid himself among these
trees

To be consorted with the humorous
night.

Blind is his love, and best befits the
dark.

Of course, Romeo is now
in love with Juliet, rather than with Rosaline. 

What do you mean by the term ‘Hypothesis’?My posted question is related with Research Methodology

In the field of scientific research, hypothesis refers to
an assumption about the variables being or to be investigated by the research. It may be
defined as logically derived relationships that may exist between two or more variables
which is expressed in form of a testable statement.

The
relationships assumed in the hypothesis are conjectured on the basis of association
generally observed between these variables in the background studies for formulation of
research objectives and questions.

Good hypothesis for a
research study are tentative intelligent solutions to the research problem. They are
predictive statements that contain at least one independent and one dependent variable,
that relate the independent variable to the dependent variable

In Mexico, it's important for foreigners to not drink the water because they might get:a)Amoebic dysentery b)malaria

I find the question and the choices to be oversimplified
and cliched. Firstly, what exactly do "foreigners" mean? From the perspective of the
person who is asking the question, would someone from Nicaragua be considered as much as
a foreigner as someone from the United States while visiting Mexico? Furthermore, who is
the one formulating the question and for what
purposes?

Many people who travel from one region to
another, even within the same country, develop new diseases or a strong ailment from
viruses or bacteria strains to which an individual has not yet developed full immunity.
For instance, people who move from Toronto to Vancouver, and vice-versa, tend to get
unusually strong colds the first year of having settled in the new region. With regard
to "the water" in Mexico, all cities in Mexico have potable water that is up to
international standards. Are foreigners who are getting sick mostly those who go to
questionable resorts designed for international tourists, or are they purchasing food
and beverages from street vendors or restaurants that cut corners in terms of
hygiene?

This leading question also lacks grammatical
logic. People need to drink water on a daily basis. Not drinking water while visiting a
foreign country (for several days at least) would be far more harmful (and deadly) than
drinking it.

What are the figures of speech in "The Fall of The House of Usher"? Please give me some examples.

Some figures of speech
include:

Allegories- The moss growing outside of a decaying
estate which was formerly grandiose and sumptuous; the dead sister; the inevitability of
Usher's appareance, and the fall from glory of the House of Usher are all allegories to
fate and its control over our lives: How the influences that we cannot control at times
end up taking up our inner self, and then spits us
out.

Anaphora- The repetition of words or phrases within
one same paragraph in order to balance out the narration and enhance the storytelling
process:

I
looked upon the scene before me–upon the
mere house, and the simple landscape features of the
domain–upon the bleak walls–upon the
vacant eye-like windows–upon a few rank
sedges–and upon a few white trunks of decayed
trees

Many minutes,
many hours, many days, have I
heard it

Alliteration: Poe
describes many things using the same first letter such as the
words:

feeble
and futile

cadaverous
corpses

icing, a sinkin, a sickening of the
heart

Rythm: As with
everything Poe writes, he always wants to give balance through
rhyme:

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Oppresicely, melancholy, destructively,
agonizingly, etc.

Summarize the crowd’s reactions to Brutus’s and Antony’s funeral speeches. What can you infer about the crowd from their reactions?

Shakespeare had already demonstrated to the reader that the Roman people are easily swayed with the opening scene in Act I.  After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus speaks to the crowd and convinces them that Caesar was ambitious and would have been a terrible leader.  Although he is not a skilled speaker, he is able to use logos to convince that crowd that what he and the conspirators did was the best for Rome. At this point, they call for Brutus to become king.

Mark Antony, on the other hand, plays on the emotions of the crowd and incorporates three dramatic acts within his speech.  First, he pauses to cry while speaking.  This creates sympathy in the angry mob.  Once they have been softened, he hints that Caesar had a will, but he says that he won't read it because it would anger them too much.  The crowd cries for him to read the will (he never actually SHOWS what's written; he merely waves a scroll).  He tells them that Caesar had made the citizens his heirs and that each one of them was going to receive gold. The fickle crowd, that had only moments before been ready to make Brutus king, begins to turn on the conspirators.  The third dramatic act of Antony's is to display Caesar's body, and the throng becomes murderous.  Afterwards, Antony's aside, "Mischief, thou art afoot" shows that he had planned to incite a riot with his speech.

Please crush my self-esteem and critique this poem? (:Seriously, I'm posting it in a poetry workshop (in the 'general' section but still) to be...

First, I have published some poetry as well, and I always
try to ignore the "rules" and traditions and write in the style I want to, in the format
that feels right for the topic or piece I'm working on.  So keep in mind, whether it's
feedback you receive here or in your poetry workshop, it's constructive criticism, and
you can take it or leave it.  Stay true to your
poem.

Secondly, when I do choose a format or style to write
the poem in, I try to stay consistent to that style throughout.  If my stanzas are
short, or a particular number of lines, I try to craft the rest of the poem to fit what
I've started.  Notice how your poem does that pretty well for the three stanzas - 6
lines, 7 lines, 6 lines.  You might try playing around with how you separate and place
the lines to achieve a better rhythm when read.

Personally,
I like the "Asphyxiation" stanza the best, especially this
line:

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When a man's reputation
is
his oxygen, it's too easy
to collect private bedroom
utterances,
publicize, and lodge them in the back
of his
throat.

I found
myself wishing I had written it, so well done.  And the last line is a powerhouse one, a
great final punch to the idea.  You might consider taking that line and leaving it by
itself at the very bottom to add some extra emphasis to
it.

Nice job and keep
writing.

The poet Raymond Carver grew up and wrote in my
hometown here in Washington State, and I don't know how familiar you are with his work,
but some of your lines remind me of his.  I've added a link to a very good biography of
him.

What is the significance of Act I, scene i?

The difference in public and private speech covers political intent. Preparing to celebrate Caesar, Marullus decries the plebeians as hypocrites when he reminds them of how vigorously they celebrated Pompey when he was in power before Caesar ("Have you not made an universal shout/That Tiber trembled underneath her banks/ To hear the replication of your sounds/Made in her concave shores?"--You praised Pompey so loudly it echoed across the river! So why celebrate Caesar now?) Flavius follows up by "guilting" the crowd into not celebrating and dispersing. This is the first example of authorities using speech to manipulate the populace. However, the tribunes themselves are hypocrites--they are not so much pro-Pompey as their words suggest, but rather are anti-Caesar, and wish to "drive away the vulgar from the streets" to lessen the public show of support for Caesar. In their private speech immediately following the disbursement of the plebeians, they confirm this by planning to "disrobe the images" of Caesar as a means of protest, because they cannot publicly speak out against him; but for even this minor protest, they are killed ("put to silence") in I.ii, which not only confirms the conspirator's suspicions of Caesar's tyranny, but foreshadows the widespread bloodshed to occur when opposing and shifting political alliances have no means of resolving their differences, except by killing the opposition.

What's the English translation of the following: "Arma virumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris"?

This is the first line of the aeneid. It was written by Vergil during the reign of Augustus. This is probably the most well-known epic in Latin literature. It is written in dactylic hexameter and the whole sentence is:

arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora - multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram, multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latium Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.

I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy, exiled by fate, came to Lavinian shores and Italy - having been tossed much on sea and land by the violence of the gods on account of the remembering wrath of savage Juno, having also suffered much in war, until he should build a city and bring his gods to Latium; from where comes the the Latin race, the father of Alba, and the wall of lofty Rome.

What two mottos does Boxer adopt? What do they mean?

Boxer has two mottoes.  They are "Napoleon is always
right" and "I must work harder."  Both of these mottoes show Boxer's role in this
story.

In this story, Boxer's role is like that of the
ignorant working class in Russia.  He is blindly in favor of what Napoleon (Stalin) is
doing.  He feels that if he would only work harder, everything would be
okay.

This shows that he has really bought in to the
propaganda that Squealer and Napoleon are putting out.  He has bought into the idea that
Napoleon is perfect and that the animals should work their hardest to do what Napoleon
tells them.

What is the symbolic significance of the old man and his enormous wings? Why is the appropriate that the story contains almost no dialogue? How...

The author has chosen to make this a 3rd person omniscient point of view.  We as readers gain the thoughts of many of the characters, though never the old man.  The central focus of the story isn't so much the arrival and existence of the man, but how everyone reacts to him.  If the focus was the man, then the author would have provided details about his past and the nature of his existence.  Instead, we are meant to see how people treat him and how they explain him.  This gives clues to human nature.  Thus, dialogue is not important.  Behavior alone is important.  People lie often when they speak, but their actions have more truth.  Therefore, dialogue in this story would just get in the way.

In The Most Dangerous Game, what three tricks does Rainford use to elude Zaroff? What is the outcome of each trick?

Rainsford uses three tricks to capture Zaroff.  The first one is called a Malay man-catcher.  The dead tree was cut to rest on the living tree when the foot hit the trigger, the bough that was sticking out. The tree struck Zaroff on the shoulder, but he was able to stand up and announce that he would return after having his wound dressed.

Rainsford's second trap was a Burmese tiger pit that had pointed stakes in the bottom and a mat made of weeds and branches placed on top. It was dug a dozen feet away from the quicksand that was known as Death Swamp.  It claimed the life of one of Zaroff's dogs, but Zaroff was still in the Game.

The third trick was the Uganda trick where he took the sapling and tied a knife to it with the point facing in the direction of Zaroff and Ivan.  The sapling was tied back and Ivan received its blow and was killed.

Through all three tricks Zaroff managed to stay alive but was intrigued by Rainsford persistence and cunning display of survival skills.

When does dramatic irony happen to Oedipus in Oedipus Rex?

I think that dramatic irony happens at several points in
the play.  When Tiresias' words of "How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to
the wise" are spoken, and the reader sees Oedipus' dismissive actions and demeanor
towards such a warning, it is a moment of dramatic irony.  The reader understands that
there is a loaded meaning, a specific connotation in the words, but the character
(Oedipus) does not.  The same experience can be seen in the articulation of Oedipus'
fate that he will kill his father and marry his mother.  The reader is convinced or
fully grasps something that the character (Again, Oedipus) does
not.

Who killed George Bowlegs?

Dr. Reynolds killed George Bowlegs.  Reynolds was in turn killed by three unnamed Zunis because he had defiled their sacred traditions.

Reynolds was a reknowned researcher and anthropologist who was committing the very serious crime of planting artifacts at an archaological site to support one of his theories.  Ernesto Cata, a young friend of Bowlegs, stole some evidence from Reynolds' truck without realizing its significance, and passed part of it on to Bowlegs.  Reynolds killed Cata and Bowlegs to keep the evidence, which would incriminate him and ruin his reputation, from being exposed.

In chapter 24, what is meant by having a family background (Jem and Maudie)?

A good question. Aunt Alexandra is having friends over. Notice how everyone is on their best behavior - from Scout's dress to Cal's starched apron. This chapter is designed to show the reader the importance of one's family and name in Maycomb. This means that people are not separated just by economic means or social standing but also by their lineage (though one could argue that is directly linked to economic means and social standing).

Alexandra hopes to show Scout what it really means to be Finch. As such she has certain expectations to live up to. And behaving like a dirty little tomboy is not one of them! Acting like a respectable young lady who knows with whom to associate (and the Cunningham boy, who is considered white trash, is not one of them).

This chapter also illustrated how important family and their standing among Maycomb's citizens really is to Alexandra. Atticus could care less. Scout realizes this too. Notice on page 233, Scout says "I was more at home in my father's world." This is a reference to how Atticus treats - or tries to treat - everyone equally. Scout has inherited that trait.

Remember if it were up to Alexandra, Atticus would never have taken the Robinson case. Defending an African American accused of rape was not the type of think a respectable Finch did.

How would you say the "Assignment" that the Goober received changed him?I think Goober played an important role in The Chocolate War and his...

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. The assignment was a critical point in Goober's life because it forced him to wake up, look at his life, and face the real world. Before the assignment, he lived the idyllic life of a child. "Things were simple and uncomplicated...everything seemed beautiful...the entire world attainable" (Chapter 8). The assignment forced Goober to examine himself, and although he found himself inadequate to the task of facing the world with the integrity he knew he should have, the fact that he had embarked upon the road of self-evaluation and searching opened the door to the possibility that he might eventually find a life worth living. 

I think Goober is important because, while he is weak, he remains sensitive to a higher ideal, and his struggles - tentative though they are - to act accordingly, give him a kind of "everyman" role in the book. He is a regular guy living in an evil world, and I think his story realistically illustrates the extreme difficulty of remaining true to a noble standard in an environment of corruption and deceit.

What are quotes from the book Into the Wild best describe Chris' characteristics?

There were many individual characteristics that combined
to form the complicated person who was Chris McCandless.  Because of that, there are
many quotes and passages that reveal various aspects of his personality.  Fortunately,
some passages provide information and insights regarding multiple characteristics.  One
such passage addresses the beginning of Chris's
adventure:

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...The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest
sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.  He had spent the
previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to
graduate from college.  At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling
world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess,
a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of
existence.

Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to
invent an utterly new life for himself, one on which he would be free to wallow in
unfiltered experience..he was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own
destiny.

On another occasion
referred to in the book, Wayne Westerberg's mother discusses a side of McCandless that
provided motivation for his undertakings.

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"There was something fascinating about
him...Alex struck me as much older than twenty-four.  Everything I said, he'd demand to
know more about what I meant, about why I thought this way or that.  He was hungry to
learn about things.  Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living
out his beliefs."

Why is it called The Zoo Story? Is there a specific reason or is it the obvious reason?

The most immediate reason the play is called "The Zoo Story" is that Jerry announces that he's been to the zoo when he first shows up. His story is a zoo story, and that starts a lot of the play's action in motion.

There are other less obvious /more symbolic reasons as well. Jerry lost his parents; many animals in zoos (especially older zoos) are without full family structures, and Jerry fights for territory like an animal. The characters in the play are trapped and lonely, like zoo animals. Animals play a part in discussions.

Why is Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin, banned?

There are any number of reasons why a book might be banned, and this might vary from region to region. This book has been banned or challenged for at least two distinct but related reasons.

In New York, it was challenged because of rape, violence, and how women were treated. In Virginia, it was challenged because of sex and profanity.

See the website below for a few more details:

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In The First Seven Years, why was Feld impressed with Max?

Feld is impressed with Max because of Max's determination to educate himself.  Feld believes that an education is essential for happiness in life, because it provides a better and wealthier life than the one he has lived.  It isn't until the end that Feld realizes education is not the key to happiness, or the most important quality in a man.

What is Della's fear before Jim comes home in "The Gift of the Magi"?

In character with Della, her fears are not selfish.  She
wants to look pretty, not for herself, but for Jim.  For, after she returns home, she
uses the curling iron on her hair to make herself look the best that she can for her
husband:  "If Jim doesn't kill me....But what could I do?"  As she hears his footsteps,
she prays, "Please, God, make him think I am still pretty" since she does not want to
displease her husband, whom she loves dearly,
obviously.

When he enters and stares at her "fixedly with a
peculiar expression," it is not anger, surprise, disapproval, or horror, write O. Henry,
so Della need not worry about her looks.  Rather, she is again concerned with Jim's
displeasure.  If she were vain, she probably would not cut her hair; then, even if
she were to cut it, she would quickly say something in reaction to Jim that demonstrates
her resentment of having cut her hair.  But, in this delightful story about unselfish
love, Della simply tries to make amends:  "It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will
you?"  Della does not speak of herself; she is not
concerned with her looks, per se as some readers mistakenly
suggest.  She is only concerned about Jim's happiness, and he has been happy having her
with long hair; her unselfish concern is consistent with her character from the
beginning of O. Henry's story. 

How else could Della be, as
O.Henry declares, "the wisest...the magi"?

how does rainsford come to ship-trap island?no

Rainsford is on his way to Rio to hunt jaguars in the Amazon. Whitney, one of the crew, and Rainsford decide to have a discussion on hunting. Whitney explains that they are approaching "Ship-Trap Island" and that sailors are very afraid and feel a cold chill run through their veins when in its midst.   Whitney decides to turn in for the night and Rainsford decides to stay up and smoke another pipe.  

Rainsford hears the sound of a gunshot 3 times. Springing onto the rail of the boat, he tries to see if he can see anything.  As he balances himself a rope knocks his pipe out of his mouth and, leaning to reach it, he bends over too far and falls in the water.

It becomes a matter of life and death and he has to keep a straight head if he is to survive.  He hears a cry of someone or something, but at least it gave him a direction to go.  After swimming a great distance, he finally hears the familiar sound of waves rushing and crashing on the rocks. 

With the small amount of energy he had left, he pulled himself onto the rocks and collapsed.  Upon waking in the afternoon, he wandered along the shore trying to find some sign of life, but all he found was what seemed to be the blood of the wounded cry he had heard from the distance.  He kept going knowing that this was evidence of some type of life and he came upon General  Zaroff's chateau.

In the crucible John Proctor says It is winter in here yet what does he mean by this statement?

He is calling his wife cold, not as in the temperature,
but as in the attitude or mood. You may have heard the phrase, "giving the cold
shoulder". This means that someone is ignoring or being rude by way of not saying
anything. This is what Elizabeth Proctor has done to
him.

She later admits in the play that it takes a cold wife
to prompt lechery. Essentially she is saying then that she shares blame in the problem
of their marriage that caused John to look elsewhere for pleasure and satisfaction. She
notes that she wasn't delivering the affection required in a marriage
relationship.

What was the significance of Bosola giving the Duchess the apricots? Did she get sick from eating too much, too fast or was it that apricots make...

Bosola has the Duchess eat the apricots to confirm his suspicions that she is pregnant. Her pregnancy is confirmed when she throws up and goes into labor. It's suggested that they should say the apricots are poisoned so no one will suspect that the Duchess is giving birth.

I think this scene reflects the time period in which it was written. Knowledge of pregnancy and how pregnancy affected women was not great, so it's assumed that the Duchess will throw up (morning sickness?) even though most women suffer from nausea during the first few months of pregnancy, not at the end. Also, Bosola sees the sickness of the Duchess as proof positive of pregnancy, when in fact, throwing up doesn't always mean you're pregnant. Some women don't even crave certain things when they're pregnant.

In the story "The Lady, or the Tiger," what does the princess know about the lady behind the door?

The princess knew that her lover had been arrested and she suspected the reason. She paid dearly for knowledge that not event he king himself had and that was which door the princess and therefore life for the man she loved would be behind. In her quest for this knowledge she learns that the woman that has been found for her lover is beautiful, perhaps even more beautiful than she. Not only was the woman beautiful, but it was a woman that her lover already knew and she had seen them speaking to one another in the square on occasion. She also thought that they might even like each other because they had exchanged admiring glances between them. She also knew that the woman was hopeful that her door would be chosen because the man was handsome and chivalrous and brave. She hates this woman who she does not even know because she knows that her lover will not be unhappy with his new wife should he choose the correct door.

Did Robert Bolt invent the phrase A Man for All Seasons and if not where did it come from?

Khawla I had already received the correct answer to my question which is that Robert Whittinton created the phrase and therefore Robert Bolt's title, and I have made use of this piece of intelligence already.  If you scroll through the replies above yours you will see that the teacher Sagetrieb answered me already.

But thank you for offering the copy.

Mooncottagecat

What is the central conflict of the story?

The two main conflicts in "The Interlopers" are between Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, who clash over the ownership of the land, and between the two men and nature, when they are lost in the storm.

They relate because nature, in the form of wolves that come to kill them, resolves the first conflict by killing the men. (Technically, this is only implied, not stated, but it is strongly implied.)

The animals divide in to two factions. What slogans did they come up with?

Before Napoleon ousts Snowball from Animal Farm in Chapter Five, they vie for power.  The dispute concerns a windmill that Snowball wants to build to provide electricity but that Napoleon opposes.  Each faction develops its own slogan.  For Snowball, it’s "Vote for Snowball and the three-day week" and for Napoleon it’s  "Vote for Napoleon and the full manger." Before the animals vote one way or the other, Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball off the farm, and then turns him into the scapegoat for everything that goes wrong

In Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, what did the Logan family eat for their Christmas dinner?

The Logan family had a feast for Christmas dinner, which they shared with the Averys.  "The meal lasted for two hours through firsts, seconds, and thirds, talk and laughter, and finally dessert".  Cassie actually reveals what they are going to eat a few pages before she tells about the meal itself when she describes the delicious smells that permeate the house the day before Christmas.  She lists "sweet-potato pies, egg-custard pies, and rich butter pound cakes...a gigantic coon...baked in a sea of onions, garlic, and fat orange-yellow yams...and a choice sugar-cured ham brought from the smokehouse" (Chapter 7).

Is the executive branch the most powerful branch of goverment?Please answer I have an essay to do.

Our system of government was set up to have three branches
of government, and so no branch would have more power than the other two, the framers of
the Constitution set up a system of checks and balances. Under this system, each branch
has the ability to stop the other two branches from gaining too much power. For example,
one way the executive branch (the president) is able to stop the legislative branch
(Congress) is through the presidential veto. The president can veto any bill that has
been passed by Congress and stop that bill from becoming law. The judicial branch
(Supreme Court/court system) has the ability to check the president and Congress through
judicial review. With this power, the Supreme Court can declare a law that has been
passed by Congress and signed by the president unconstitutional. Congress has checks on
the Supreme Court and the president as well. To answer your question then, no one branch
of our government is more powerful than the other, so the executive branch isn't the
most powerful branch of government.

How was the Democratic Party converted by its association with the civil rights movement-what political gains and losses did that association entail?

The Democratic Party's association with the civil rights
movement is what has made it into the party that it is today.  It is, in large part, why
the Democratic Party is the party of non-whites today and the Republicans always win the
white (especially the white male) vote.

After the civil
rights movement, the Republican Party adopted their "Southern Strategy."  In this
strategy, the GOP appealed to whites who were turned off by the gains of the black
movement and by the lawlessness of the Vietnam Era.

As the
GOP took these voters away from the Democratic Party, the Democrats had to become more
liberal and more pro-minority.  The GOP turned the opposite
way.

So the Democrats won the liberal and non-white vote,
but they have pretty much lost the conservative and populist white vote for all of my
lifetime up to this point.

What does the switchblade Heck Tate uses have to do with anything? Did he switch the knife?

In this chapter of To Kill a
Mockingbird, Scout is in costume: she's a ham, so she can't see or use her
hands.  So, Scout feels around with her feet.  She pushes around on Bob's body with her
feet: she feels a belt buckle, buttons, and "something I could not identify," (the
kitchen knife), and then a scratchy face.

So, Heck finds
Bob stabbed with a kitchen knife, placed there by
Boo.

Later, Heck Tate shows Atticus a switchblade he claims
to have taken from a drunk man that night.  That drunk man was Bob Ewell.  He obviously
didn't use it against Boo or the kids as there is no blood on
it.

Heck's a little slow, sure.  Why he didn't let Bob
sleep one off in the town jail is beyond me, but luckily he took the knife before Bob
could use it against Jem and Scout.  Bob no doubt had planned to use it in his plan to
get revenge on Atticus for defending Tom and embarrassing him in
court.

How does A Raisin in the Sun and The Secret Life of Bees relate to a quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.?The quote I am referring to is "the...

Both the play A Raisin in the Sun and
the novel The Secret Life of Bees relate to the quotation by Martin
Luther King, Jr. in the development of major characters in the stories.  In A
Raisin in the Sun, Mama buys a house in a white neighborhood because she
thinks that it will be comfortable for her family.  She and her family know that they
will have a difficult time melding into the culture of the new community and that they
will likely experience discrimination while they are there.  However, Mama insists that
they all move, believing that they are all strong enough to deal with any hardship. 
Through this decision, Mama shows her inner strength and
determination. 

Similarly, in The Secret Life of
Bees, Lily ends up living with the Boatwrights because she is having trouble
living with her father.  While at the Boatwrights' home and out of her own element, Lily
begins to learn about people and relationships, particularly after May's suicide.  As
the family grieves, Lily decides to use May's wall as a place of redemption and prayer. 
So, she shows her character through this challenging
time.

So both stories exhibit characters who "shine" during
their most challenging moments.

How did the ever-increasing speed of society affect books according to Beatty? What's the most important thing in society?

I assume you are talking about the things that Beatty says
when he visits Montag in his home.  This is the time when Montag has stayed home sick
from work.

According to Beatty, the increasing speed of
society made it so that books withered away.  People just wanted shorter forms of
entertainment so books got boiled down to digests and summaries and then eventually
disappeared altogether.

As to what the most important thing
is, I would say that it is happiness.  That is what Beatty says that they are
protecting.  You might say, though, that it is mindlessness -- just filling your head
with this pointless entertainment so you don't have to think.

What are the themes of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold Bug"?There's not much that I notice about themes throughout this short story. Poe...

I like to challenge my students with the following:

"The Gold Bug" (or whatever story/poem) is a story/poem about ______________ (fill in the blank).

There are usually several things you can plug into the blank. All stories and poems have more than one theme, although most are fairly obvious.

The Gold Bug is a story about adventure, mystery, superstition, hidden treasure, friendship, greed.  Try it yourself and see what else you come up with as far as themes you see.

What is Capulet's attitude towards the welfare of his daughter, Juliet and what does this tell us about family dynamics in Elizabethan England?

When Juliet does not jump for joy at the announcement that she will marry Paris in a week's time, Lord Capulet is furious with Juliet.

Lord Capulet is incensed that Juliet is not complacently accepting his commands as he has always expected her to do. Until this point in the play, Juliet has always complied with her parent's wishes.

Lord Capulet tells her he will throw her to the streets and cause her to be a street urchin if she does not obey him. He is borderline physically abusive towards her, and most certainly verbally abusive to her, calling her names such as, "carrion" and "baggage". He is threatening, as well, when he tells her he will do whatever is necessary to get her to the church.

This shows that parent-child relations were not close. Children were meant to be obedient and subservient to their parent's wishes. It was not acceptable to show outward defiance.

What is the exposition in the story "Eveline"?

"Eveline," one of the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners, follows a young woman named (rather predictably) Eveline. Before discussing the exposition of the story, however, it's important to understand what exposition is. Exposition is generally background information and explanation given to the reader early on in a narrative; exposition "sets the scene," as it were, providing necessary context about the world and story that the reader is entering. As such, exposition provides the scaffolding for the main narrative.

In "Eveline," the exposition is the information we get about Eveline's background. As it turns out, the background is a pretty grim one. Joyce tells us that Eveline's mother and brother are dead, and her father is an alcoholic with tendencies toward violence. We also learn that Eveline has a dead-end job at a store, makes a meager wage that she must forfeit to her father, and also must take on the responsibilities of her dead mother and care for her two younger siblings. Finally, we learn that Eveline has recently become engaged to a young man named Frank who pledges to sweep Eveline off her feet and take her to Buenos Aires.

Through this exposition, we learn two major plot points: first, Eveline's present life is miserable and devoid of promise. Second, Frank represents Eveline's only means of escaping her present prison. With this knowledge in mind, we're ready to digest the main thrust of the narrative. 

A summary of Kofi Annan's “Reflections on Intervention”.

In this speech, Kofi Annan (former UN Secretary General)
is making the argument that the international community should intervene more in what
seem to be the domestic affairs of various countries.

In
general, the idea has been that the UN should intervene in international affairs, but
not in domestic ones.  But Annan argues that domestic wars generally spill over into
other countries.  Thus, it makes sense to stop them before they so spill
over.

Annan points out that not all intervention needs to
be military.  He calls for more aid to countries that might start having major
problems.

Finally, Annan says that intervention must be
international.  Individual countries must not go off on their own and intervene in the
affairs of other countries.

How do the farmers try to discredit what is happening in Animal Farm?

Although the farmers of the surrounding farms were
"thoroughly frightened by the rebellion on Animal Farm," they tried to put up a brave
front. Jones complained about the injustice of the animals taking over his property, but
the other farmers "pretended to laugh" about the idea of animals successfully running a
farm. They claimed the rebellion would be over shortly, and that the animals were
feuding among themselves and starving to death. After a time, when they saw that the
farm was flourishing, they talked about the "terrible wickedness" going on
there--cannibalism, torture and rape. The whole rebellion was "against the laws of
Nature."

What is the name of the street in front of the Beje in The Hiding Place?

The street in front of the Beje is called the
Barteljorisstraat.

The Barteljorisstraat is located in the
"crowded center of old Haarlem. The street is lined with shops which, in addition to the
ten Booms' watch shop, include an optician's office, a dress shop, a baker, and a
furrier company. There is also a second watch shop on the street, run by Mr. and Mrs.
Kan. The buildings on the Barteljorisstraat are for the most part a few stories high and
built closely together. The Beje itself is typical, having three stories, and being two
rooms deep and only one room wide. At the same time, the Beje is also unique because,
"at some unknown point in its long history," it had been joined with the "even thinner,
steeper house in back of it." The two dwellings are connected by a narrow corkscrew
staircase, and the result is quite a labyrinthine affair, perfect for the construction
of a secret hiding place.

The Beje has a front door that
opens onto the Barteljorisstraat. The customers' part of the shop is at the front of the
building on the ground floor, and from the window hundreds of clocks can be seen. The
Beje also has a side door that opens onto a tiny alleyway; this is the door that the
family uses to enter and exit the house.

Although there are
windows in the various rooms of the Beje, it is difficult to see the sky from them,
because the surrounding buildings are packed so closely together. The windows for the
most part open onto brick walls, the backs of adjacent buildings, but if one looks
straight up, "above the crazy roofs and crooked chimneys," a "square of pale pearl sky"
can be seen (Chapter 1).

What is a fundamental symbol in "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson?

The black box is indeed the main symbol.  It represents tradition.  The villagers are not sure about the box's history.  They recall a chant and a certain handshake that used to go with it.  Indeed the original box is tattered and worn, barely  holding together.  They did make some modifications, replacing wood chips with slips of paper as the villages population grew.  The only thing they are really certain about is the use of rocks.

The Lottery, like the box, is shrouded in mystery.  No one really knows why they conduct it (other than Old Man Warner making a reference to it having to do with good corn crops in June).  They just follow along because it has always been done. 

There has been talk of getting rid of the lottery, indeed some towns already have, and there seems to be some talk among the young people of junking the lottery.  In this way the lottery is like the box.  It is barely clinging together.  But just as the villagers pull the box out once a year and go through the proceedings, observing what ceremonies and protocols they remember, they still obediently observe the lottery.

What is revealed when Buck licks Thornton's hand in "The Call of the Wild"?

Buck has gone through a horrible series of events by the time he ends up with Thornton.  He has had masters that he could trust, and he has had ones that were horrible beyond belief.  When Thornton arrived on the scene and saved Buck from being beaten to death by the woman, her husband, and her brother, Buck realizes that he has "landed on his feet," so to speak.  When Buck licks Thornton's hand, he is letting him know (and us, the readers) that he trusts him and believes in him, and even that he will lay his life down to defend him.

Check the links below for more information on these characters!  Good luck!

What is the importance of the reference of Jephthah?

The reference to Jephthah in "Hamlet" is by Hamlet to Polonius. In this scene hamlet is outwitting Polonius using many literary illusions, this one being biblical.

In the bible Jephthah prays for the help of god to win in battle, and in return, he offers the first person to walk through his door as a sacrifice. He believed that most likely it would be a servant... However, it turned out to be his virginal daughter.  Jephthah's daughter sacrifices herself, telling her father that she will honour his promise to god, and dedicates her life to work in the temple. 

Jephthah did not want to sacrifice something of actual value, like his daughter. Polonius is self seeking at best, wanting his daughter for what he can use her for. He was happy to have her engaged to Prince hamlet, but happier still to have her used to test whether or not he was mad. 

Ophelia ends up making the sacrifice of her own love by testing Hamlet, in the "get thee to a nunnery" scene, causing her to go mad, and ultimately kill herself. 

To call Polonius Jephthah is to insult his integrity, as well as foreshadowing his own lack of heirs, as Ophelia dies childless, and Laertes also in the final scene.

What is the thesis of "The Story of an Hour"?

Being a fictional short story, there isn't an actual thesis in the work.  If I were going to choose one sentence that emphasizes the meaning of the story it would be the very last sentence.  

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills.

This sentence points to the irony in the story.  We as readers know that Mrs. Mallard didn't die joyfully, but rather at the shock and disappointment that her husband was still alive.

If you are looking for a thesis, as in the main point, of the story, it would be that women are oppressed in marriage relationships.  In most of her works, Chopin was concerned about showing the role of women in society and in marriages.

Describe Elie as the story begin (12 years old). What are some things that change him? How was he different at the end of the story?

At the beginning of the book Elie is a unique boy who is hungry for his religion. He desires to learn everything and his goal in life is to be a master of Kabbalah. He spends is time deep in study, even his free time. He seeks the truth and is a very philosophical young man.

The whole experience in the concentration camp during WWII changes him. He loses his innocence, his family, and his faith inside the camps because he cannot understand why God would allow such awful and horrific things to happen to people who have devoted their lives to Him.

At the end of the book Elie is grown, yet he is not very old. The experience has aged him considerably beyond his years. He spent the remainder of his life studying human nature and basic human rights and informing people about his experiences and those of others he knew with the hope that nothing like the Holocaust of WWII would ever happen again. While some of his life was still devoted to religious study- the question still remains of whether he ever found his faith again after his experience.

See the link below for more information on Elie Wiesel