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.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
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.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
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:
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.
Monday, March 14, 2016
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.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
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:
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:
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...
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.
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:
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
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.
Saturday, March 12, 2016
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:
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
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.
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:
"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:
'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:
'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:
'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:
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,
'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]
Friday, March 11, 2016
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.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
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.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
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?
Monday, March 7, 2016
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.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
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.
Friday, March 4, 2016
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.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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:
"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:
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:
"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:
"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
"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,
"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.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
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 –
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