Thursday, February 18, 2016

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

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

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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

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

But thank you for offering the copy.

Mooncottagecat

What is the central conflict of the story?

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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

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


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


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


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

How far is Iago justified in hating Othello?

Iago hates Othello for some of reasons. First reason could be that Othello promoted Cassio in his place; however, Iago wants it and he cosid...