Compare and contrast Dill's family situation with Scout's.It's from the book the first chapter of the book To Kill a MockingBird. Please have real...

Although Jem and Scout are being brought up in a
one-parent household, they get far more attention from Atticus than Dill gets from both
of his parents in To Kill a Mockingbird. Dill's parents ship him
off to Maycomb each summer, presumably because they prefer to be without him for a few
months each year. Atticus spends as much free time with his children as possible and
advises them when he feels they are in need of it. Dill's mother apparently divorces her
first husband because the boy speaks of his new father later in the book. Neither of
them seem to have much inclination to spend time with him, however. Dill's parents
lavish him with more gifts and monetary favors than Atticus, but Jem and Scout seem to
sense that this is in return for their own lack of time and interest. Atticus gives his
children a large degree of independence for kids so young; Dill also is given more
freedom than most kids. However, Atticus does this in an effort for his children to
learn things on their own terms, while Dill is forced to do so because of his parents'
lack of hands-on participation.

A 4.2x10^3-N piano is to be slid up a 3.5-m frictionless plank at a constant speed. The plank makes an angle of 30 deg. with the horizontalcalcwI...

Given:

Force exerted by the
piano = f = 4.2x10^3 N

Angle of the plank = A = 30
degrees

Distance to be moved = d = 3.5
m

The weight of piano, and their the force exerted by it is
acting in vertically downward direction.

The component of
gravitational force of piano acting along the plank (f1) is given by
formula:

f1 = fx(Sign A)

=
(4.2x10^3)x(Sin 30) = (4.2x10^3)x0.5 = 2.1x10^3

Since the
the plank is frictionless there is no frictional force to be overcome to move the piano
up the plank.

Also the plank is moved up at constant speed.
Therefor, there is no work done to accelerate the piano when it is
moved.

Therefor, the only force required to move the piano
up the plank is the force requires to exactly over come the force f1 pulling the piano
down the plank. Magnitude of this force is also equal to
f1.

And the work done to move the piano is given
by:

Work done = (Force)x(Distance moved) =
(f1)x(d)

= 2.1x10^3x3.5 = 7.35x10^3
N-m

In Chapter 7, what happens when Ralph wounds the boar?

When Ralph wounds the boar, he feels the excitement of hunting for the first time.  Up until this time, he has left the savagery of the hunt to Jack and his gang of hunters.  When Ralph throws his spear in a split second decision, he is elated by the feeling of the hunt and the victory of having hit the boar.  Unfortunately, Ralph only wounded the boar and it got away.  Because of this fact, he is still not accepted by the group of hunters.

How do I write a outline for an essay (Frey Tag Pyramid) I wrote on "For Whom the Bell Tolls"?

The Freytag Pyramid is the familiar plot outline for breaking a story into its parts.  I've included a link explaining it.  If you are being asked to write an outline to go along with a literary analysis, I would assume the outline would be to delineate the story, and not your essay.  In this case, use the pyramid shape to identify the setting, rising action, climax, etc.. of the story.

Chapter 6 in Animal Farm. How does Napoleon react to the destruction of the windmill? Whom does he blame and why?

When the windmill falls apart in this chapter, Napoleon
blames Snowball.  Napoleon blames him because Snowball has been designated as the enemy
who is the cause of all the bad stuff.  Napoleon needs a scapegoat like that because he
cannot admit anything is his fault.

In this story, Napoleon
has set up a system where he is like a god of sorts -- it's called a cult of
personality.  If he ever admits he's done something wrong, it will ruin his image and
reduce his power.  So when something bad happens, he blames it on Snowball and portrays
himself as defending Animal Farm against Snowball and all the other
enemies.

How does the introduction, "The Custom House," relate to the novel The Scarlet Letter?I read "The Custom House," and to me it relates to the...

Much argument has taken place over the importance of “The
Custom House” in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Certainly, most
high school students probably find it somewhat dense compared to the rest of the
narrative. As a result, many high school teachers skip this section of the novel in
their teaching.

This fact is unfortunate as “The
Custom House” really sets the stage for the rest of the novel. In it the reader is
introduced to the narrator, who shares many similarities with Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
These similarities are so numerous that one can argue that it is actually Hawthorne
narrating the tale even though the narrator never truly identifies himself. Indeed much
controversy ensued after the original publication of the novel. Many of Hawthorne’s
political enemies criticized “The Custom House” as they viewed this section as a
personal attack from Hawthorne. Beyond the narrator, the introduction also relates how
Hester Prynne’s story came to be discovered and how the story became a romance.

Likewise, “The Custom House” establishes the
seemingly self-righteous tone that the narrator uses throughout the story. The criticism
the narrator has for the political machinery and custom house employees of the early
nineteenth century is soon transferred to the magistrates and townspeople of late
seventeenth-century New England. Thus, the introduction to this novel is exactly what it
should be and for that reason should also be read, studied, and taught along with the
primary narrative.

Please help me analyze the Greek passion in Antigone in regards to democracy, God, and marital life.

I'm not sure exactly what your question is, but here's
what I can make of it.

Ancient Greek culture was broken up
into two categories: Free people and Slaves.  Later, as society evolved, Free Greeks
were divided into Citizens and Metics.  According to my
notes:

A
citizen was born with Athenian parents and were the most powerful group, that could take
part in the government of the Polis. After compulsory service in the army they were
expected to be government officials and take part in Jury Service. A metic was of
foreign birth that had migrated to Athens, to either trade or practice a craft. A metic
had to pay taxes and sometimes required to serve in the army. However, they could never
achieve full right s of a Citizen, neither could they own houses or land and were not
allowed to speak in law
courts.

Ancient Greek society
was a complete Patriarchy:

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The social classes applied to men only,
as women all took their social and legal status from their husband or
their male partner. Women in ancient Greece were not permitted to take part in public
life.

Here's
how men were viewed by themselves and in comparison to gods (their
ideals):

“The
note here is one of humility and resignation: Man is no more than grass, in comparison
with God." --H. D. F. Kitto, The
Greeks

So, if men
are viewed as no more than grass, how are women viewed?  As below grass?  Dirt?
 Worms?

When viewed through the lens of
Antigone, Sophocles subverts the cultural values of the traditional
Greek system, especially when it comes to women: Antigone takes the moral high ground
from the male King.  Do the gods not choose Antigone to speak for them instead of their
King?

Antigone and Ismene are both unmarried.  Antigone
should be powerless, like Ismene, both because she is a woman and because she is
unmarried.  She such be a princess, since her father was king and her uncle is now.
 But, she does not rely on traditional status as a woman or a princess to define
herself.  Instead, she is a kind of holy sister and priestess--one who performs the will
of the gods.

Her passionate duty is to the dead, her
brother, and the gods.  She openly defies both the male and the King in Creon.  She
openly refuses to be married to Haemon, choosing to perish inside a cave than be given
status afforded her as a princess.  As such, she is a Romantic heroine: a Gothic rebel.
 She has the same death wish that the Romantic spirit of rebellion
cherishes.

As such, Antigone is a modern, humanistic, and
feminist character--light years ahead of her time.  She belongs more to the 20th Century
than the ancient Greek civilization.

What is the climax and resolution of "To Build A Fire"?

The climax of "To Build a Fire" occurs when the man is trying to remove his moccasins to warm his feet by the fire and the snow from a bough of the tree collapses onto the fire, effectively destroying his chances of survival and causing him to realize he is going to die.  The resolution takes place after this realization when he begins to run, only to collapse in exhaustion, and finally, as the dog watches faithfully nearby, numbness fills his freezing body. Hope this helps.  For a more detailed summary check the link below. Brenda

What is the story of King Lear about?

At its heart, King Lear is about the relationships between parents and children.  Lear believes that vocal expressions of love prove that his children care for him.  He fails to understand that an honest child is more sincere, and fails to recognize that a child can disagree with a parent but still love him.  The play - through both Lear and the Earl of Gloucester - demonstrates how easily a parent can be manipulated, and how dangerously that parent can misunderstand and take for granted a loving child. 

To briefly summarize the story - King Lear asks his three daughters to speak their love to him, so he can decide who most deserves his inheritance.  When his youngest is honest with him about her complaints, he disinherits her, and plans to move in with the older two.  They quickly weaken him and destroy his belief in their love.  He wanders into a storm, upset and disillusioned.  Cordelia arrives with the French army to restore her father's kingdom.  The two make up, but are soon taken captive by Edmund, who is seeking power.  Cordelia dies, sending Lear into torrents of grief and killing him.  Goneril and Regan fight and both die.  Edgar, the rightful heir to Gloucester, is left to restore the kingdom.

The soviet exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, how did the United States react to this?

The US did two major things to react to this.  One was to
try for a way to ensure nuclear peace.  The other was to try to be stronger than the
Russians.

The first thing that the US did was to propose a
plan where both the US and the Soviet Union would turn over all their weapons to the
United Nations so that neither nation would be able to use the
weapons.

But at the same time (especially since that
proposal went nowehere) the US started working on bigger bombs -- hydrogen
bombs.

The US also adopted the ideas of NSC-68, which
called for larger conventional forces so as to have an option other than nuclear
war.

How are the stories in Dubliners interlinked?

Look for examlpes of the "seven deadly sins" portrayed in individual stories.

For example "lust" in "The boarding House"

"sloth" in "counterparts"

"envy" in "A Little Cloud"

"wrath" in "Counterparts"

"pride" in "Clay

Also many of the stories have allusions to Dante

The best study on the subject is "The Unity of

dubliners" by  Brewster Ghiselin" which can be found in "Dubliners" Text Criticism and Notes edited byRobert Scholes and A walteon Litz

Most of the characters are paralized in some way, spiritually

emotionally, vicitms of circumstance.

What are the rising action, falling action, and resolution of this story?

The rising action in the story is that the party is getting under way and everyone is forgetting about the world outside the castle that is suffering from the Red Death. The only reminder is when the ebony clock chimes ominously every hour.

The falling action is when the party goers realize that the uninvited guest who appears at midnight is in fact the Red Death himself and they all begin to die.

The resolution of the story is that no one can escape death no matter how fiercely they try to ignore it. The party goers tried to shut death out, but death will always find a way in when the time is right.

What are three examples of irony in "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

I think that you are probably looking for examples of
verbal irony here.  This is the type of irony where the author says one thing, but
really means the opposite.  There is quite a bit of this in the
story.

Here are a few examples from the
story.

First, the narrator says that the king
made

the
public arena, in which, by exhibitions of manly and beastly valor, the minds of his
subjects were refined and
cultured

This is ironic
because the minds of his subjects weren't really being cultured by this -- it's
barbaric.

Second, we are told
that

The arena
of the king was built, not to give the people an opportunity of hearing the rhapsodies
of dying gladiators...

Dying
people don't do rhapsodies.  So that's ironic too.

Finally,
the narrator says this about the method that the king made up of deciding whether
someone was innocent or guilty:

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Its perfect fairness is
obvious.

This is ironic
because the process was ridiculously unfair and
arbitrary.

What is Torvald Helmer's definition of a "human being"?he seems to treat his wife Nora like a child, a doll.

Torvald does treat Nora as a doll.  Ibsen's A Doll's House
has often been used as a rallying cry for the feminist movement, especially during the
second wave when Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique was a pivotal point in that part of
the movement.  While Ibsen has considered himself more of a humanist instead of a
feminist, there's no denying that he wanted Nora to be an equal to her
husband.

In the final act she says, "But our home's been
nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's
doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls. I thought it fun when you
played with me, just as they thought it fun when I played with them. That's been our
marriage, Torvald. [. . .]If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the
things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any
longer."

Torvald does not consider his wife his equal, he
considers her more like a doll or a child.  Something to play with, feed macaroons, have
dance for him, and call his "little squirrel" and other diminutive names.  Most likely,
the only others that Torvald considers equal to him are other men of his status as a
businessman (or greater) in society.

Where is the story set?

The island is named "Ship Trap Island" in the story because the island's owner fashioned a trap in the ocean to lure his victims (or "opponents") to the island.

Connell uses a lot of imagery (mostly in the use of similes) to describe his setting and how lush and overgrown this jungle-like island is complete with quicksand, swampy areas, beaches, cliffs, and a mansion with only the finest creature comforts around.

Explain the importance of the buildup of free oxygen in the atmosphere for the evolution of animal life.

Prior to the buildup of oxygen, organisms were mainly
anaerobic and used mechanisms where no oxygen was present or needed.  Once the buildup
of oxygen starting occurring, organisms were forced to either evolve to survive or they
would die off due to the presence of oxygen. The organisms needed to evolve so that they
could use and benefit from the abundance of oxygen. The presence of oxygen is a huge
evolutionary milestone that kick started the evolution of many new species.  Organisms
began to metabolize and perform all of its functions with oxygen
present.

What does the scaffold represent to the puritan community in The Scarlet Letter?

The scaffold, in Puritan society, was a place of public penance. This is where many punishments were carried out and this place was chosen for that task because it was very public.  Since it stood up above the crowd, most people could easily see the person being punished.  Punishments varied from a simple public announcement of a person's sin/crime to some very severe physical punishments.  Thus, the scaffold becomes the symbol of humiliation and punishment.

Solve and explain the equation 2x + 16 = 10

In order to solve the equation, we'll have to find a value
for x so that the equation to hold, even after the substitution of the unknown x with
the found value was made.

A proper manner to solve this
type of equation would be  to subtract, both sides of the equation, the opposite value
of the one of the left side, so that, in the end, the left side to contain only the
unknown
x.

2x+16-16=10-16

2x=-6

Now,
to move 2 across the equal sign, we need to divide both sides of the equation with
2.

2x/2=-6/2

x=-3

What do Tolstoy's stories tell us about greed, murder, lust, vanity, and love in relevance with 19th century Russia?I'm currently reading "The...

Tolstoy was from the beginning of his career a moralist
addressing all the questions of greed, murder, lust, vanity, love, and family as he
perceived their relevance to 19th century Russia but, after the late 1870s, his beliefs
and focus changed. You might think of the periods of his life divided by his "watershed"
moment of his late 1870s spiritual and moral crisis as his Family Existence period
followed by his Anti-Family Existence period.

Tolstoy was
adamant in his belief that a happy family existence is the bedrock of life and thus
represents superior values to those of social rites. Anna Karenin
(1873-76 serially), War and Peace (1865-69 serially), and "Family
Happiness" (1859) all depict this thematic idea in one way or another, ascribing family
love above all else.

When he and his wife began quarreling
so bitterly about the income and royalties from his work, he was forced by the reality
of his situation to reevaluate his belief, which led him to the conclusions expressed in
"The Kreutzer Sonata" (1889 ,although sometimes attributed to 1890 or even 1891) that
contend that marriage is a dishonorable social institution meant only for the
gratification of lust, implying (problematically) that celibacy is the only honorable
state.

Another of his favorite moral themes was the
superiority of the Russian peasantry's morals over those of established society,
encompassing tradespeople, gentility, nobility, and the ruling classes. Two short
stories that Tolstoy wrote after his moral and spiritual crisis in the late 1870s
illustrate his conviction of the superior moral value of peasants over the socially
elevated. "How Much Land Does a Man Need" (1886) illustrates the ruination of greed and
compares it to the reasoned generosity of the peasants. "Master and Man" (1895), a much
gentler tale comparing moral values, illustrates what happens when the greedy, though
not cruel, master adopts the servants value of loving
sacrifice.

Tolstoy also tackled the 19th century Russian
ideology of death and dying in both"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886) and "Master and
Man" (1895). In the former, Tolstoy illustrates that vanity and greed lead to torment in
the face of impending death, then presents a higher moral selflessness, represented by
the little boy who is symbolic of the simple moral values of the peasants, as the answer
to attaining a peaceful death. In "Master and Man," after Tolstoy's critical change of
beliefs, he shows that death is to be approached by abandoning all and living on the
moral--and physical--level of the morally superior peasants. In this story the Master
wholly incorporates the servant's role of unquestioning selfless service, which
represents the moral level, while the giving of his coat symbolically represents
adopting the peasant ways on the physical level.

This is
something Tolstoy himself did: He abandoned his estate, where his wife and family
continued living, and lived as a peasant in a remote corner of his estate. His life
ended in a dramatically painful irony. When he was eighty-two he chose to completely
abandon his estate and go elsewhere to live fully immersed in a peasant life. He didn't
survive the train trip and died in comfort at the station master's house surrounded by
dignitaries and other representatives of the higher social
levels.

How do Foxwood Farm and Pinchfield Farm compare in Animal Farm?

The similarity between the two is that they both are
adjacent to Animal Farm and seek to benefit from Manor Farm and Mr. Jones’ downfall.
However, typically, the two owners of the farms fought with each other and disagreed.

Foxwood Farm is not well kept, it is neglected,
overgrown, and described as old fashioned. Its owner, Pilkington, enjoyed spending his
time pursuing fishing and hunting. Pinchfield’s owner was much different. He is
described as “tough and shrewd”. He also drives hard bargains and finds himself fighting
others in law suits frequently. In short, Pilkington is described as more laid back and
a little lazy, and  Mr. Frederick, Pinchfield’s owner, is constantly fighting with
people.

What does Macbeth claim is his only motivation for the assassination?

Macbeth says in his speech at the beginning of Act I, scene 7, that there are many reasons NOT to kill Duncan - Duncan is his cousin, and a good and well-loved king, and his guest.  However, Macbeth admits that the reason he still wants to go through with it is his "vaulting ambition" that overleaps his concerns.

Why has the “Party” gone to such tremendous efforts to ensnare and trap Winston? part 2

In the eyes of the Party, Winston poses a true threat.  The Party maintains power by using mind control, by teaching others to think in ways that benefit the Party (Big Brother).  It seems reasonable to assume that the only real fear of the party is losing its power; its power can only be lost via the power of free thought. Freedom is contagious; its power grows many fold with the addition of each person who recognizes some evil in Big Brother.  If you think of free thought as a contaminant (from the Party's viewpoint), it may be easier to recognize that Winston, as person aware of truth, could share that awareness with others.  Each person who realizes some degree of truth may infect myriad others with his knowledge.  In essence, the Party must stop Winston, and others like him, or risk everything they have.

What are the themes in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

John Donne wrote the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" for his wife before leaving on a trip. In it, scholars have found allusions to religious belief, to death, and to science. On the surface, though, he is telling his wife not to be sad because he is leaving. Their love is not like that of ordinary people, the "dull sublunary lovers." He says that these kinds of lovers can't stand to be apart because their love is based on appearances, on physical things, on "care less eyes, lips and hands to miss."

The love shared by Donne and his wife is higher than this. Theirs is a spiritual love. They are as one soul, so that where one goes the other is there as well in spirit. So sadness and tears at parting are not appropriate for them. Their love will grow from the anticipation of reuniting.

See the links below for a discussion of other themes in the poem.

What are the figures of speech used in "To Autumn" written by John Keats?

Keats's "To Autumn" uses many literary devices, but
several stand out as contributing majorly to the structure of the poem.  The first of
these literary devices is apostrophe.  Apostrophe is when the speaker of a poem
addresses, or speaks to, something that can't speak back.  In this poem, Keats's speaker
is addressing autumn when he asks, "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?" (line
12).

Another literary device that Keats uses in this poem
is personification.  Just as he speaks to autumn, he also personifies (or describes
something as if it were a person) autumn as a worker in a granary, sleeping on the floor
because of the heavy drowsiness that Keats associates with the season in the first
stanza.

A final literary device, and perhaps the most
pervasive in the poem, is imagery.  Keats employs visual imagery in the first stanza, in
which he describes the "swell[ed]" gourd and the "plump...hazel shells" (7).  In the
third stanza, the imagery becomes auditory, as Keats describes the "music" of autumn
(23), such as the "twitter[ing]" swallows and the "wailful choir" of gnats (33,
27).

What if your English teacher says its time to cast away the rules to follow your heart to look into your soul this is a stanza of a poem...

This is an interesting question. I think that the writer
is likely addressing readers who are sitting on the fence, hesitant about going after
their dreams. Or, perhaps, the person who feels strongly about an issue but is afraid to
act on his or her feelings because those feelings go against the norm. The poem speaks
to those individuals who have a dream (which is all of us, really) who might be afraid
to go after that dream because something is holding them
back.

Look at it line by
line.

The first line tells us to cast away rules. We live
by so many rules in our society - from the rules that are parents make (many of which
should NOT be broken because they are for our own safety) to the rules that society and
peer pressure force upon us such as we must get married, have children, work a steady
job in a traditional field, or even accept things just because we are told to accept
them. Think abut it this way - if people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks had
not broken society's rules, where would the Civil Rights movement
be?

The second line tells us to follow our hearts.
Sometimes, our heart knows right from wrong better than society does. Many people
opposed slavery well before the emancipation proclamation was written. Society said it
was acceptable, but they knew in their hearts that enslaving another human being was
wrong. Thise who spoke out even though they knew they might be ostracized for it
followed their hearts. Many a performer, athlete, or even entrepreneur was once told
that he or she was going after something that would never amount to anything, but those
who reach the top got there because they followed their
hearts.

The last line ties to the second nicely. When we
look into our soul, we become even more aware of what is right in general and what os
right for us as individuals. Only we know what is true deep inside of
ourselves.

In Chapter 25What causes Scout to comment that Jem was acting more like a girl every day. What definition of "girl" does she imply?

While waiting to go with Atticus to see Helen Robinson, Jem urges Scout not to kill a roly-poly bug.  Jem has been deeply affected by the events of the trial.  He understands the senslessness of Tom's conviction and death, and he feels sensitive about the innocent.  Scout, after years of being around and watching boys, believes that to be a "girl" is to be sensitive and "tender-hearted".  A girl is sensitive and does not crush bugs because bugs are living beings.  Therefore, she connects Jem's concern with girl-like behavior.  It will be some time yet before Scout matures in the way that Jem has and begins to understand the cruelty of the world and to appreciate the beauty in it.

Was Frankenstein mean at first?

As a creation that was man made, not heavenly created, Frankenstein the monster has no soul.  Shelley is very clear to illustrate this.  He is not "nice" or "mean" but merely full of purpose.  He struggles not with a moral code that governs most of human society, and feels no remorse for the crimes he commits.  He is apathetic to the world outside of him.  Shelley was viciously against science for science's sake, and wanted to portray this tragic character as lost, attempting to fit into some society, but really not a part of any.

What is the central idea in Steinbeck's story "The Chrysanthemums?"

The central idea in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” concerns a woman’s loneliness and unfulfilling life in her marriage, which she sublimates by gardening and tries to satisfy through her fantasies with the tinker man, only to be brought back to the reality of her loneliness when she discovers that the tinker man had no real feelings for her at all and lacks the sensitivity she seeks in a man and in life.  Steinbeck validates a woman's sexuality in this story while also depicting a woman as facing enormous difficulties in satisfying sexual and other needs through men who lack own depth and sensitivity.

In what ways does Dana explode the slave stereotypes of the "house nigger"? In what ways does she transcend them?

The most obvious way in which Dana transcends slave stereotypes, or indeed, expectations for all humans anywhere, is that she can and does travel through time. This gives her extensive knowledge of what will happen, making her a kind of augmented wise woman.

 

The other ways she transcends/explodes stereotypes are much more mundane these days. She speaks directly to whites as equals, she expects fair treatment, she retains the capacity for compassion, she carries a broad perspective with her, and she feels desire openly, with little concern for power dynamics.

Explain the appropriateness of the title of the story."Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets" by Jack Finney

In Jack Finney's story, the main character, Tom Benecke
has invested all his leisure time lately on a project he hopes will earn him a big
raise.  But, after his yellow sheet with all the data in which he has invested this time
blows out of his high-rise apartment window, Tom, in an obsessive move, goes out on the
ledge to retrieve it.  When his window closes, locking him out, he empties his pockets
and drops the coins, hoping someone will look up from the pavement far below.  But no
one does.

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there was nothing left but the yellow sheet.  It
occurred to him irrelevantly that his death on the sidewalk below would be an eternal
mystery; the window closed--why, how, and from where could he have fallen?  No one would
be able to identify his body for a time...Contents of the ded man's
pockets, he thought, one sheet of paper bearing penciled
notations--incomprehensible.

Then,
Tom imagines how the police report would read.  As he does so, he
ponders,

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Contents of the dead man's
pockets, he though with sudden, fierce anger, a wasted
life.

This phrase
that is the title is also the moment of truth for Tom
Benecke.  For, he realizes that he has been so caught up in climbing the corporate
ladder that he has neglected his wife; tonight he even sent her on to the movies alone. 
After this moment, Tom sets his priorities on having a happy marriage and
living--something much more important than the yellow
sheet.

This realization that there would be no explanation
for his death, a senseless death, is the lever for Tom's change of priorities.  It is,
therefore, fitting that this phrase be the title of Jack Finney's short
story.

In what ways did the tragic deaths of Brutus and Caesar result from their nature or character?How would I begin an essay introduction with the answer?

Very good question. I will sketch a few ideas for you to
develop and then consider your question about the introduction to help you frame your
response.

To answer this question you need to go back and
consider the characteristics of these characters and how they are exhibited in the play.
In particular, you need to focus on their shortcomings or characteristics which are
exploited by other characters and result in their
downfall.

For example, Caesar´s major fault that results in
his assassination is his own arrogance or sense that he cannot be harmed. As Calphurnia
says to him in Act II scene 2, when she is desperately trying to persuade her husband
not to leave that day:

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Alas, my lord,

Your
wisdom is consumed in
confidence.

It is this sense
of his own strength and invincibility that leads him to ignore the warnings of his wife,
the Soothsayer and others:

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Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened
me

Neér looked by on my back. When they shall
see

The face of Caesar, they are
vanished.

Such a strong
self-belief in his own strength and power is arguably what leads to Caesar ignoring the
premonitions of other characters and his
assassination.

With Brutus we need to consider how his
honour, his defining characteristic, is manipulated and played upon by Cassius in the
famous seduction scene in Act I scene 2, and then leads him to make some misguided
decisions. Chief among these is his underestimation of the character of Marc Antony. It
is Brutus who persuades the conspirators not to kill him and then allows Marc Antony to
address the crowd. He dismisses the character of Marc Antony as one how is "given/to
sports, to wildness, and to much company." He also wants to strike a moderate balance
between the murder that he sees as necessary and an all-out
slaughter:

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Our course will sem to bloody, Caius
Cassius,

To cut the head off and then hack the
limbs,

Like wrath in death and envy
afterwards;

For Antony is but a limb of
Caesar.

Let´s be sacrificers, but not butchers,
Caius.

In fact, Brutus´ own
sense of honour and what we can identify as his naivety leads him to ignore the advice
of the far more politically aware and shrewd Cassius.

In
your introduction then you need to introduce your two key ideas about these characters
and briefly explain how you are going to elaborate on their characteristics. Remember,
in the introduction you are to sketch an outline of how you are going to answer the
question. The biggest failing of most students is that they begin to answer the question
in their introduction - this should only be done in the main essay. Good
luck!

In chapter 1 of Lord of the Flies, how is Piggy indirectly responsible for the blowing of the conch?

Piggy has prior experience with conchs as his Aunt had one and she taught him how to blow it.  Piggy, in turn, teaches Ralph how to blow the conch, and from that moment on it is used to keep the peace and order among the boys on the island until Jack declares it is no longer needed.

Compare between Wordswoth- Coleridge- Shelly's view of how they deal with (nature)?Wordswoth-in a way trying ti give real pictures. Coleridge- in...

Nature, in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," transforms the
speaker, changes him, helps him grow, leads to acts of kindness on his part.  Nature
also leads him to the sublime, creates in him a sublime mood.  The speaker recollects
nature during quiet or tranquil moments and it changes him and creates the sublime
mood.  The poem is more about the natural area around him five years before when the
speaker first saw it, than it is about the area in the poem's
present.

Coleridge's nature transforms into the
supernatural to avenge a senseless and thoughtless murder of one of God's creatures in
"Ancient Mariner."  Nature controls the weather, creating fog or wind or calm on a
whim.  The sun disappears and the stars shoot out, sea snakes and a sea monster follow
the ship.  The supernatural is connected to the natural and the connection puts on a
display that transforms the Mariner.

Wind is a transforming
force in Shelley's "West Wind."  It creates the trasformation from one season to the
next, and Shelley hopes his poetry can do the same for intellectual thought.  As the
wind transforms the landscape and the weather, Shelley believes his poetry can transform
the artistic world.

I've explained the role of nature in
these three poems for you.  I'll leave it to you to find the quotes--I can't do the
entire assignment for you!

How much does Buck weigh in The Call of the Wild? call of the wild by Jack London

The answer to this is that Buck weighs 140 pounds.  This
can be found in the first chapter of the book.  So this is what he weighs while he is
still a pet dog back in California.  He is said to be smaller than his father.  His
father was a St. Bernard, but his mother was a Scotch shepherd dog and that is why Buck
is not as big as his father was.

At one point in Chapter 5,
we see that Buck has lost a bunch of weight.  At that point, he has gotten down to 115
pounds.

Discuss the images in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

There are lots of images or motifs in Jane
Eyre. I will discuss one of the central set of images and how it relates to
the novel as a whole.

You would do well to re-read the
novel and note how often fire and ice are referred to as central images. These two
images are fundamentally related to the theme of the novel. Fire represents the passion
and anger of Jane, while ice represents the forces of duty, submission and other
characters that are trying to suppress and oppress Jane's character. In the novel at
various points fire is used as a kind of metaphor for Jane, to describe her spirit and
vitality. For example, before she leaves Gateshead, she compares her way of thinking to
“a ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring.” Likewise fire is used to
indicate to readers who Jane can relate to. For example, Rochester is described as
having “flaming and flashing” eyes.

Ice and cold are used
in the novel to symbolise isolation, loneliness and abandonment. The first mention we
have of this is the book that Jane reads in Chapter 1, depicting the "death-white
realms” of the arctic. This landscape of course mirrors Jane's state during her time at
Gateshead - she is abandoned and isolated both physically and spiritually. This is
continued in Lowood through reference to the freezing conditions and the ice that has to
be broken each morning for the girls to wash. Most interesting is the way that images of
ice and cold are welded to the figure of St. John Rivers. He is compared at various
points to "marble" and a "glacier". He is of course a force that tries to oppress Jane
and stamp our her independence of spirit or her "flame". Consider Jane's comment on his
impact on her: “By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my
liberty of mind. . . . I fell under a freezing
spell”.

These are just some examples of how these two key
images run through the novel as a whole - try and look for some others in the
novel.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, why did Scout rub Walter Cunningham's nose in the dirt?

She does this because she is mad at him.  She is mad at
him because she feels like it is his fault that she got in trouble with her teacher,
Miss Caroline, on the very first day of school.

Walter is
poor and so he was not able to bring lunch.  Scout tried to explain that to Miss
Caroline when she kept asking Walter about it.  That (along with Scout being able to
read) made Miss Caroline angry and she hit Scout's hands with her ruler.  It didn't
hurt, but it humiliated Scout and so she wanted revenge.

5- Why won’t the Principal publish Helmholtz’s poem? Chapter 12 Brave new world

In this chapter, Helmholtz Watson has been experimenting
with poetry that really actually shows true emotions.  That's not really what he is
supposed to be doing, but he has been feeling unhappy with his work and he wants to
write "real" stuff.

So what he does is he writes this
poetry about wanting to be alone and how nice it would be to be alone.  The students
complain at once and he gets in trouble.  The reason for this is that you are not
supposed to want to be alone.  Their whole society is based on always being with other
people and having fun.  They do not want you off by yourself thinking because that could
cause trouble for the society.

So the principal won't
publish it because it has "bad" ideas in it -- ones that go against society's needs and
values.

Why is Daisy winking "ferociously towards the fervent sun" and is there a symbolic meaning to this? The question is from chapter one, page 17 or 18...

Daisy is merely parroting her husband's words here. She does not have any true convictions, in this instance she is merely mirroring what she has obviously heard from Tom numerous times.

She is detached in what she is saying, her face uplifted toward the sun. Daisy clearly does not share strong feelings on the subject of racism. Looking up into the bright sun shows her disinterest in the subject at hand.

The term "winking" could be symbolic, she winks as she whispers her agreement, thereby showing she is not agree with Tom. The term "ferociously" shows the extent to which she holds contempt for her husband and his opinions.

Why is it that Hamlet's uncle killed his father in Shakespeare's Hamlet?

There are two possible motives for Claudius killing King
Hamlet (Hamlet's father). The first would be to access to the throne of Denmark; the
second to take Gertrude, the queen, for his wife. It is likely that Claudius' passion
for both prizes was his driving force. His greatest folly was perhaps the speed at which
Claudius took on the accession to both roles, as he says himself in his primary speech
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Though yet
of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be
green,

As can be seen in
Claudius' detailed instructions in Act 1 Scene II, he has usurped the role of king
fully, in terms of his marriage to Gertrude-

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our sometime sister, now our
queen,

and of his involvement
in the political affairs of Denmark-

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To our most valiant brother. So much for
him.
Now for ourself, and for this time of meeting.
Thus much the
business is:

Claudius' speed
and enthusiasm for each of the roles he has taken by the murderer of King Hamlet make
both the spirit of the dead king, and his tormented son, seek
revenge.

What is the main theme of the story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"?

One way to state the theme of a piece of literature is first to discover the topic of the piece, which in this case is death, and then put that into the form of a question: What does Harry's fate as a failed writer, his gangrenous leg, his dream of ascending to the white snow on the mountain, and the laugh of the hyena ("almost human") suggest about "death"? Perhaps it is something such as this:  In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Hemingway suggests that because we are all deeply flawed by our nature of being human, the shadow of death sharpens our desire to aspire to greatness." In any way you formulate your ideas on the theme, be sure you state it as a sentence with a subject, verb, and object, narrowing a "topic" to a universal truth about human experience.

Name and describe the characters in "Bright Lights, Big City."

Let me see if I can give this one a try. I think I can list them all from memory because you're right I couldn't find a reference for you on the site. 

Unnamed Protagonist- works at a magazine as a fact checker, wife left him, abuses cocaine

Tad Allagash- best friend to the protagonist

Yasu Wade

Michael

Amanda- absentminded model who is rising fast and is the unnamed Protagonist's ex-wife

Rittenhouse

Mother-died a year earlier, Unnamed Protagonist is still reeling from the loss

Megan- coworker

Clara

Rich Vanier

Stevie/Zette

Vicky- philosophy student who Jaime dates

Kathy

Mr. Vogel

Ferret Man

When Nick asks Gatsby what part of the Middle West he is from, Gatsby replies, "San Francisco." What does Nick surmise from Gatsby's answer?

This conversation happens in Chapter 4 as Gatsby is
telling Nick about his past.  There is a huge amount of controversy about this among
scholars who study Fitzgerald and his writing.

Most of the
stuff I have read argues that this is simply an error.  These scholars say that
Fitzgerald made a lot of dumb mistakes like this.  They say that his editors usually
caught them but that his editor was on vacation and this slipped
by.

So I guess that I would say that Nick does not surmise
anything because Fitzgerald did not mean this to be a mistake in Gatsby's story.  Nick
does wonder if Gatsby is pulling his leg, but it's because Gatsby says his family is all
dead, not because of the geographic thing.

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“San Francisco.”

“I
see.”

“My family all died and I came into a good deal of
money.”

His voice was solemn, as if the memory of that
sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him. For a moment I suspected that he was
pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me
otherwise.

What do Beowulf's battles with Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon have in common?

In all of these battles, Beowulf is the stereotypical warrior.  He sets out alone, and he relies mostly on his brute strength, as opposed to his wisdom, in order to accomplish his tasks.  Consider his battle with Grendel - he holds onto Grendel with a vise-like grip until the monster's arm is ripped from his body.  However, Beowulf is compassionate and he is intelligent.  He sets out on all of these battles not for glory but to help others, to serve his people.  The biggest difference between the battles is in the last one, with the dragon.  Here he allows another, Wiglaf, to come to his aid, recognizing that he is too old to take care of the situation himself.

Explain why Walter and not Mama is the protagonist of the play.

The main theme concerns identity, and it is Walter who needs to deal with this issue. The protagonist usually develops in relation to the main conflict, and the conflict concerning identity develops most importantly around Walter, who, as the new "head" of the family, must assume that role of authority within the context of a strong father figure who is dead, the racism of the early 1960s, and a sense of failure in trying to support his family.  Mama knows who she is; she knows how to solve the problems she faces.   She has extraordinary wisdom and compassion, generating our love and admiration.  Walter must struggle, and it is that struggle which pushes much of the plot. forward.

In Fever 1793, what is Mattie's dream?

In regard to Mattie's dream, it is mentioned early on (Chapter 5) that Mattie dreams of far away places: "Paris would smell like a lemon peel, far away and wonderful." (Pg. 29)

This quote has been taken from the Aladdin Paperbacks edition of Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Was Doctor Manette imprisoned in the Tower of London?Darnay mentioned that while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, he heard that workmen...

Dr. Alexander Manette, father of Lucie Manette, was
wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille in France for 18 years for trying to report a
rape.  After Lucie finds him and brings him to London, he still experiences a type of
"prison" with his trance-like relapses that occur when he is under duress, causing him
to forget who he is and making him incapable of doing anything other than making shoes.
His letter was discovered by Monsieur Defarge in the chimney of his old cell in the
Bastille.

When Charles Darnay, his son-in-law, is
imprisoned and charged with treason, Doctor Manette agains reverts back to his
trance-like state when his journals are read in a court in
Paris.

What did the Jews think might be the reason for their deportation?

I thought this part of the book was interesting because Elie observes that they all just continued to give in to each new request of the soldiers and each new request was a little more difficult to swallow than the last, but they all just thought they could wait it out and that nothing bad would happen to them. Afterall, none of them had any idea what was going on in the Jewish world in 1944. The result of their willingness to give in to the soldiers' request was their eventual suffering and death. When the soldiers, who they originally believed weren't that bad (after-all they did give chocolate to one of their own)asked them to pack their belongings for deportation, they were fearful, but not nearly fearful enough because they still felt a current of trust among the soldiers. They wanted nothing more than to believe that what the soldiers told them was the truth, that they would be moving the Jews farther away from the advancing front to keep them safe. They got to pack a few of their belongings and they would be traveling by train so they felt that they weren't in any immediate danger and the reasoning behind the move seemed logical enough for the Jews to swallow.

In Chapter 3 of Night, describe the first selection. How did Elie and his father survive it?

Thanks to the kindness of one of the inmates Elie and his father survive the very first selection before they even know what the word means to their survival. The prisoner demands that Elie tell the guards that he is eighteen instead of fifteen. He then tells Elie's fifty year old father that he needs to say that he is forty. Women, children, and the elderly were the first to be killed inside the walls of the camps because they were thought to be useless. When Elie and his father approached the guard they did as they were told and survived the first selection that would have sent them straight to the crematorium to be burned just like Mrs. Schachter's vision might have predicted. Dr. Mengele, the guard was pointing prisoners either left or right with his baton and when he spoke to Elie and his father, the baton pointed to left, luckily they find that left was toward survival although they were frightened at first that it was to the crematorium.

Explain how Poe develops the creepy tone and builds the suspense in "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Poe wastes little time in setting the mood in his famed
short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." From the opening sentences, he assaults the reader
with an atmospheric barrage of evil thoughts and ideas. Dreadful nervousness, madness,
supernatural senses and murder are just a few of the ideas presented in the first two
paragraphs. He grabs the reader's interest immediately and continues to build the
tension as his narrator tells the rest of his story. When the murder is finally
committed, Poe does not stop there. The dismemberment of the body only magnifies the
horror of the act, leaving the reader wondering what can happen next. But unlike the
narrator of Poe's other short story of macabre murder, "The Cask of Amontillado," the
killer in "The Tell-Tale Heart" has not covered all of his bases: His crime is not
perfect; screams have been heard and police have come to investigate. More tension
arises and the narrator's nervousness increases until he does the unthinkable: He cracks
and reveals all.

How was John Proctor a man in as much conflict with himself as he is with the authorities of salem?

John Proctor wanted to be a Puritan at heart. Many people
who participate in organized religions find it easy to partake in the rituals of a given
faith, but to act according to the demands of the soul is a much more difficult, but
honest pursuit.

Proctor was a sinner, he confessed his
great sin and discussed it at length with those who were influenced by his sin. But the
impact of his sin most affected him. When he turned to Abilgail in a lecherous
relationship, he stained his marriage bed from that point forward. Unfortunately,
Puritans failed to focus as much on the grace, forgiveness, and mercy that are offered
in the Bible that they preached as on the sin that they committed. His personal conflict
felt like it had no resolution, there was no method for reparation without
forgiveness. 

The authorities were
similarly unmoved.

When John finally accepts his fateful
punishment for a crime he didn't commit, I think he feels justice was served for the
previous sin of lechery he did commit.  

What is the irony in "The Open Window"?

 (...) As to the irony in Saki's short story "at large". Here Saki gives the device a unique, double twist, although you can't grasp it till you've read the last lines, and reached the return of the shooters and Nuttel's escape. When Vera starts relating her "Ganges story" about him, what do you understand first ? That she's completely making it up : she knows nothing of Nuttel, she's a mythomaniac who's fooled and scared the poor chap with her hoax about her aunt's tragedy. But not only him. You then realize that you too, the reader, have been taken on a ride by her since, in the first place, you could not but believe that tragical story about the dead shooters - just like Nuttel did. In other words, while Vera was deceiving Nuttel with her lies, Saki/the narrator in his turn was fooling YOU by doing as if he were scoffing at Nuttel, and at Nuttel only.

 

To sum it up, the irony in The Open Window is twofold : between Saki + Reader at the expense of Nuttel, but above all, given its ending, between Saki + Vera at the expense of the Reader - who's been foolish enough to blindly (flatteringly ?) believe the story was merely designed to make Nuttel its laughing stock. This is no less than a slap in the face of the reader. As to universal credulity and man's willingness to believe anything from anybody (and to gibe his fellow men ?), I leave the conclusion to you :)

What are three ways in which Helen's situation when she comes to Holmes is similar to Julias just before death?

Helen is in a similar position as Julia was in several ways.

They are sisters.

They are or were living with Dr. Roylett.

They fear what was about to happen (or, in the case of the dead sister, what did happen).

They heard a mysterious whistling in the night.

They sleep in a room with a false bell rope.