Discuss conflict and characterization in the play Dutchman.

The conflict in this wonderful play by Amiri Baraka is clearly the conflict between Lula and Clay, beginning with her seducing him, her racist comments, and clearly coming to a climax with the stabbing, and ultimate death of Clay.  The racial tension is fraught throughout the play.  Clay and Lulu are the only real characters in the play (the others on the subway play a minimal role), therefore the characterisation that you're looking for much be of them:

Clay is a typical bourgeois black male, so predictably bourgeois that Lula is able to tell his life history by the evidence of his dress (a too-narrow suit coat), his demeanor (decorous, tentative), and his style of speech (middle class, intellectual, full of pretensions). 

The Caucasian Lula is a thirty-year-old femme fatale who alternately seduces and insults Clay. She is a mythical apple-offering Eve to his clumsy and naive Adam. Lula is the embodiment of Western Civilization, seductive and ferociously greedy, relentless, but also psychotic, lonely, trapped by her own cultural identity.

What is a summary that I can write for the movie Sleepy Hollow?

Is your assignment only to watch the movie and write a summary about it? Or is it to compare it to the actual book by Washington Irving? How long does your paper need to be?

I would suggest, if it is an open-ended assignment (where you get to choose what exactly you're writing about), that you compare and contrast the book with the movie. The movie Sleepy Hollow is vastly different from the book, and comparing and contrasting the two would make for a very interesting paper. Be sure, as with all paper, that you have an introductory paragraph in which you let your reader know what exactly your paper is about. Continue with supporting paragraphs - if you compare/contrast, you could have one or two paragraphs about the movie, then one or two paragraphs about the book, then one or two paragraphs describing their similarities and differences. Then end with a concluding, summarizing paragraph.

Be sure to check the links below for more information on both the book and the movie. Both book and movie are entertaining (the book is quite short and should only take about 1-2 hours at the most to read and understand) and should make for an interesting paper to write.  Good luck!

In what ways does Nora change from the beginning of the play The Doll's House to the end?I guess I was just wondering the degree to which Nora's...

For the greater part of the play, Nora is just what her husband wanted. He delights in her flighty, birdlike personality. Nora is the perfect accessory for his career and lifestyle. Nora has kept secrets from him because she feels it is best not to upset him. Torvald is usually unaware of Nora, and in reality, treats her like a fond pet. He pats her head, has silly little names for her, and thinks she is the person he needs her to be.

Once Nora's secrets come out, Nora realizes these things about her husband. She has asked his forgiveness, explained why she took the loan, yet is rejected. Nora realizes that she is not a partner in her marriage, and leaves to establish a real identity for herself, not just that of wife and mother.

Nora finally tired of being little more than a plaything. She realized that she deserved a man who would love and accept her in all circumstances, and clearly Torvald was not that man.

In Chapter 22 of the Kite Runner, what type of langauge does the author use?

The author uses a combination of interior monologue and narration which allows us to experience what Amir is thinking, seeing, hearing, and feeling, from his point of view.  The sentences are short and simply constructed, and become choppier as the action speeds up, allowing us to feel the sense of urgency and pulsing forward motion as the situation becomes more dangerous and culminates in the brutal fight between Amir and Assef.  The language is descriptive and almost impressionistic' using his words sparingly, the author gives us snatches of what Amir perceives during the fight - the crack of his bones breaking, the glint of the brass knuckles, the taste of his own blood - and leaves us feeling as breathless and battered as his character. 

What is the style and tone of Witch of Blackbird Pond?

The author uses a realistic style because the novel is historical fiction. The point of view is most third person limited, for we generally see the action from Kit's point of view. "Tone" is the attitude of the author toward his or her subject, characters, and/or readers. Tone is often produced by diction, imagery, and figures of speech. In her description of the meadows, Speare's tone is not dark but hopeful and romantic for she indicates the possibilities in life. Seldom does the novel criticize the Puritans for whenever she shows the bleakness of their lives she does so through Kit's point of view, which we know is limited in understanding. Sometimes Speare's tone is humorous, and often it is approving.

What is the meaning behind this quote from Hamlet "Goodnight Sweet Prince"? Is it an indication of Horatio's death; is it a suicide?

Horatio certainly does not die at the end of the play, although he does attempt to commit suicide by drinking the last of the poisoned wine in the cup. He tells Hamlet:

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
Here's yet some liquor left.

But Hamlet takes the cup away from him, saying:

Give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I'll ha't!
O God, Horatio, what a wounded name,
"Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.

Shakespeare is really mainly concerned about the impression that will be left with his audience. If Hamlet died without leaving someone behind who could explain what had happened from start to finish, the audience would feel somewhat dissatisfied with the conclusion. All the principals would be dead--Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet. It would look to the courtiers as if Hamlet murdered Claudius and also murdered Laertes with a poison-tipped foil in their duel. But if Horatio remained alive, he could explain everything to the people in the court, to the commoners, and to the new king Fortinbras. Horatio knows everything that happened, including Hamlet's meeting with his father's ghost, which he personally observed. Horatio knows that Claudius was guilty of murdering his brother and seizing his crown and his wife. Horatio witnessed Claudius' behavior at the play within a play, where the king revealed his guilt. What Horatio has not personally observed, he has learned directly from his friend Hamlet. It was therefore essential that Horatio remain alive to leave Shakespeare's audience with a feeling that there was a full and proper closure.

What foreshadowing exists in Frankenstein?Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

In addition to frequent sybolism, as stated in the
previous response, Shelley makes particular use of narration to divulge elements of the
plot. Whenever Victor is particularly positive about a friend or family member, disaster
is just around the corner. In Chapter 18, for instance when Clerval joins Victor, Victor
describes him as "alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the
setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day." No one
this happy lives long in this novel. Another good example is Elizabeth's letter in
Chapter six  regarding "little darling William" and his adorable "little dimples." I her
very next letter, just a few pages later we learn that "William is
dead!"

Shelley reminds us that Victor is
narrating his story to Walden aboard the ship. Often, Victor uses apostrophe ("Oh,
Henry!") and lets us know how terrible he feels about some later tragedy in the story.
Victor has a wonderful memory and is precise about his account of events. It seems that
he cannot help but give us some spoilers along the way, though.