What else is blamed on Snowball? How does Napoleon deal with the problem?

Snowball is blamed for many things on Animal Farm. It is alleged that Snowball is coming in at night and wreaking havoc on the farm, breaking eggs knocking over milk pails.

Rumors are being circulated that Snowball is in cahoots with farmers to attack and take over Animal Farm.

It is also reported by Squealer that the Battle of the Cowshed, which had previously been touted as Snowball's victory, was really carried out due to Napoleon's bravery. By taking away Snowball's merits, and attributing them to himself, he is gaining more  power.

He calls for a complete investigation into the current activities of Snowball.

In "The Cask of Amontillado," why does Montresor warn Fortunato about the air in the vaults?

The purpose that Montresor had in telling Fortunato about the air in the vaults was to give him a false sense of security as they went deeper. Montresor wanted Fortunato to believe that he had his "friend's" best interest at heart so that when he ensnared him in the trap and began to bury him alive he would be completely stunned by the act.

This also acts as a bit of foreshadowing toward the future event because we know from our narrator that revenge is being sought, there is no friendship attempting to be forged here.

What is the summary of chapter one of Fifth Business by Robertson Davies?

1.1

· Dunstan’s involvement with Mrs. Dempster began on December 27, 1908

· He was 10 years 7 months

· Percy comes from a rich family; father is a doctor

· Percy jealous because Dunstan’s sled was faster

· Made fun of Dunstan, said that his father was better than his

· He threw many snowballs at Dunstan, and hit Mrs. Dempster at the back of the head

· She fell to the ground and burst into tears

· Dunstan arrives home late and tells his story

· Description of Dunstan’s mother ß Pg6

· Birth of Paul Dempster; Morning of December 28, 1908 ßPg6

1.2

· In the present day talks about Packer and his article (titled “farewell to the cork”)

· Dunstan is a History professor

1.3

· Description of the village (Deptford) with population, religions, one lawyer, one backer, two doctors, dentist, veterinarian, canning factory, few shops, one only three story house

· Dunstan’s father is the owner of the Deptford Banner

· Description of Dunstan’s father and mother’s history

· Description of house and cleanliness ß Pg 12

1.4

· Paul’s birth description

· Description of Dunstan’s mother, miserable time for Dunstan

· Mrs. Dempster’s tragedy, Description of Paul ß Pg14

· Amasa baptizes Paul, theatre theme

· Prays to God to take away Mrs. Dempster’s soul

· Paul becomes healthy

· Dunstan is guilty so he goes and talks about the birth of Paul with Percy

· Mention of Dante inferno, Dunstan is 11

· Dunstan believes he is responsible for the birth of Paul

· Talk about who threw the snowball and if Dunstan knows who threw it

1.5

· Description of Mrs. Dempster, Description of Amasa Dempster

· Although Mrs. Dempster is healthy, she is sloppy and treats Paul like a doll ßPg21

· She is found many times naked at home, considered simple

· Paul is a healthy, Christian looking boy

· Dunstan has to do the chores at the Dempster's and watch over Paul

· Mrs. Dempster gives everything away (story about the vase)

· Description of Willie Ramsay

1.6

· Description of Percy ( nicknamed Pidgy boy-boy by his mother)

· Description of Dunstan

· Dunstan nicknamed Nursie

· Dunstan loves Leola Cruikshank and Mrs. Dempster ß Pg24

· Dunstan stick up for Mrs Dempster

· Description of Milo Papple and his father

1.7

· Dunstan is 13 years old

· Dunstan’s sloppiness in the Printing business

· Dunstan is a Librarian

· He reads Magic books, he wants to become a Magician (conjurer)

· Practices with an egg from his mother’s kitchen

· Lies to his mother and gets beatings ß Pg 24

1.8

· Started learning card tricks

· Showed Paul his tricks and taught Paul a lot

· Reads to Paul “ A child’s book of Saints”

· Started with coin tricks ßPg32

· Paul does the card tricks perfectly

· Description of Paul

1.9

· Description of Amasa Dempster, he loves Mrs. Dempster on principle

· Demspter shouts at Dunstan for teaching his son magic tricks and telling Paul about Saints

· Dunstan is Fifteen

· Dunstan ill wishes Dempster ßPg37

· Description of Mrs. Dempster and Mrs. Ramsay

1.10

· Description of Willie

· Mrs Dempster ( Mary Dempster) disappears

· Found in the gravel pit copulating with a tramp

What were the reasons that the North and South feared each other's influences on the course national affairs?at least 4 to 5 reasons

The North and the South's fears of each other's influence
on the course of national affairs:

The Industrialists of
the North wanted tariffs.  Tariffs artificially raise the price of imports so that
domestic manufacturers can raise their prices too and thus make more money.  It is
legalized robbery.  The people of the South did not like to pay artificially inflated
prices for their goods.

The Industrialists and Merchants of
the North wanted the government to finance improvements to harbors.  The government has
no money of its own; before it can give one party improved harbors, it must take the
money from another party.  The people of the South did not want to pay the cost of
improvements to harbors.

The people of the South perceived
that northern industrialists were bent on acquiring an empire for themselves in Mexico,
the Carribean, Central America, and the South.  To do this, Southerners believed, the
northerners would first abolish slavery so as to bankrup the southern planters; then
they could control the labor and land resources of the South and then move on to Central
America and the Carribean.

The people of the North
perceived that the U.S. Senators from slave states would continue to prevent bills for
tariffs, harbor improvements, and railroads, if they continued to hold half of the seats
in the Senate.  So northerners started agitating to prevent slavery in the territories
so there would be no new slave states, only new free labor states.  The people of the
South saw that not having a Senate evenly divided between the two predominant
political/social/economic interests, but controled by the northern states, would make
the southern states only subordinant, subject provinces of the North.  Southern states
would no longer be equal with northern states in their own country, the
U.S.A.

The southern people were fearful of the turn that
social affairs were taking in the North.  Atheism and Unitarianism were becoming common
in the North; free-love was being advocated and in some cases practiced; socialist
communes were being established; divorce was becoming common.  Some in the South said
that the southern states should seceed from the Union so that these social sicknesses
could not spread to the South. 

In the North, there were
some people who thought the South might gain control of the government and make slavery
legal in all states.  This was not very likely because there were a lot more people in
the North than in the South, therefore the North would always have retained control of
the House of Representatives.  There probably were not many people in the North who
thought this, but Abraham Lincoln thought there were some.  He played on this fear in
one of his political speeches and he would not have thought that he could make political
capital on this fear if he did not know anyone who held this
fear.

On your computer, search for University of Michigan
DeBow's Review.  Within DeBow's Review, search for Python.  The
first two articles on the resulting list are very good about southern perceptions of the
North.  They were published in 1857.  I tried to establish these links below, but they
would not stick.  You may enjoy a short book titled The Kingdom of Matthias: A
Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America by Paul E. Johnson
& Sean Wilentz.

Name the six places the second spirit took Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

The Spirit of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to a busy city on Christmas morning, where he sees happy people enjoying the sights and wishing each other Merry Christmas. Next, the spirit takes Scrooge to the poor but happy home of Bob Cratchit as Mrs. Cratchit and her children are preparing a Christmas goose and the few Christmas treats they can afford. This is the first time Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, and he learns that his chair will be empty next Christmas.

The two then visit several other Christmas gatherings, including an isolated miners camp and a shipboard party. After this, they visit Fred’s Christmas party, where Scrooge thoroughly enjoys himself, but as the night grows darker, they visit a bleak place where the Spirit shows him the two starving children who travel with him beneath his robe, named Ignorance and Want.

Where, if any, are the following poetic techniques in "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes? Satire, sound techniques, personification, simile,...

I can't find any examples of similes in the poem; similes
are where you compare two things using the words "like" or "as."  Something very similar
though, is a metaphor--it is the exact same thing, but doesn't need the signal word of
like or as.  The entire poem is packed with metaphors, all centered around the main one
of comparing life to a set of stairs that one must
climb.

There are also no examples of personification, where
you give inanimate objects human traits.  For hyperbole, look for examples of extreme
exaggeration.  The mother is quite intense, and exaggerates; she compares her life to
being in the dark, getting torn up and worn down, and filled with never-ending trial and
sorrow.  If there is satire, it is of a very serious sort, that comments on the
hardships that black Americans had to go through in life.  The mother's life had been
very, very hard, and she passed that down to her son, warning him of the difficulties. 
Satire usually comments on society, making judgments about
it.

For sound techniques, Hughes uses dialect, a bit of
rhyming ("stair/bare,"), and repetition.  Those are just a few examples of some of the
techniques that you asked about.  I hope that helps you get started; good
luck!

What are some differences between Hamlet, Fortinbras, and Laertes in the play Hamlet?

Fortinbras is decisive and warrior-like whereas Hamlet vacillates and is much more peace-loving.  Fortibras is willing to conquer a relatively useless piece of land simply to enlarge the conquests of his kingdom:  (Truly to speak, and with no addition,
We go to gain a little patch of ground / That hath in it no profit but the name. To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole / A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee (4.4.119-125). 

Laertes is easily led while Hamlet needs to be sure of everything before he makes a move, yet he feels stymied by doubt, as evidence in his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy (Act 3.1).  But Laeretes is all to ready to believe the worst, and be sucked in by Claudius' deceit, becoming a pawn to his deadly games.