Identify 3 conflicts in (character vs...?, internal/external) in "The Laramie Project" by Moises Kaufman. Include some quotes.

The conflicts in Kaufman's work abound.  The entire play is one mammoth conflict comprised of converging conflicts.  Certainly, characters like Jedidiah Schultz see a conflict in their own hearts.  There was Laramie before Matt Shepard's brutal death and Laramie afterwards.  This would represent an internal conflict, with Schultz trying to reconcile both visions of Laramie.  Certainly, there is a conflict within the Religious elements of the town, such as the ones that follow Phelps and homosexuals in the town, and in general.  This one is an external conflict of different parts of society against one another.  I would suggest that some of the interviews that lend insight into how the issue of homosexuality is perceived by the townspeople on a personal level could represent another layer of conflict.  Specifically, some of the towns people who are speaking out against homosexuality, or those who silently agree, could be homosexual themselves.  The idea is that the social conflict that rages could represent something internal, not able to be fully articulated, tearing apart individuals in the town.  This would be a conflict that assumes both individual vs. society, and, to a certain extent, individual versus self.

In "Romeo and Juliet,"who causes the fight in scene 1?

Since you have not indicated which act this scene 1 is in, let me answer the question for Act III, scene 1 rather than Act I, scene 1 so that you may have whichever response you need.

In Act III, scene 1, of "Romeo and Juliet," the climactic fight scene is brought on first by the exceptionally hot weather which has irritated Mercution and brought on his ire.  [That his temperament would become more choleric is in correspondence to the beliefs of the Romans who thought that one's personality was caused by certain "tempers" in the blood.]  To Benvolio's advice that they should retire because "For now these hot days is the mad blood stirring"(III,i,4) by retorting,

Thou art like one of those fellows that when he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table and says,'God send me no need of thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need (III,i,5-8)

Mercutio continues by accusing Benvolio of transferring his hot temper--"hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy"(III,i,9)--to him.  As they quarrel, the Capulets appear; Mercutio then banters with the hot-headed Tybalt, who has accused him of consorting with Romeo.  Mercutio begins by using a pun on the word "consort," but soon the dialogue accelerates as Mercutio declares, "I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I" (III,i,42).

Then, when Romeo arrives, Tybalt displays hostility,saying to Romeo,

Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford/No better term than this--thou art villain. (III,i,49-50)

When Romeo, who has already married Juliet and is now a kinsman to Tybalt--unbenowst to Mercutio--replies, deferently to Tybalt,

Tyubalt, the reason that I have to love thee/Doth much excuse the appertaining rage/To such a greeting.  Villain I am none,/Therefore farewell. I see thou know'st me not (III,i,50-53)

This response absolutely enrages the already testy Mercutio and he draws his sword against Tybalt accusing Romeo of "calm, dishonorable, vile submission!" (III,i,61). 

Thus, the fight is brought about as it becomes one of defense of the honor of the Montagues initiated by the hot, irritating temperatures of the day, Tybalt's insults, and Romeo's attempt to ameliorate the hostilities which Mercutio perceives as weakness.

Why did Kit Tyler come to be in Wethersfield, Connecticut?

Kit left her island home of Jamaica because her grandfather died.  She was expected to marry a man she did not love and fled to avoid the marriage and live with her other family members in America.

When Kit arrives at her new home, she realizes that her carefree island life will be dramatically different in her new Puritan community.  She is immediately thought to be a witch because she can stay afloat in water.  She is expected to work hard, marry and attend church....all without complaint.

What is Alcee's role in "The Storm" by Kate Chopin?

Alcee, the old flame of Calixta's, walks into the story and manages to change quite a bit.  Kate Chopin has a common theme of women who feel repressed and unsatisfied in their marriages.  And, it's not necessarily because their husbands are cruel or even that they don't love their husbands, it is more that the "limitations" that marriage puts on women are repressing.  A married woman, in Chopin's time was that and only that.  They didn't have careers, many pursuits, and were not regarded as the superior gender.  They were expected to behave in certain ways in their marriages and society, and were to obey certain codes of behavior when it came to sexual boundaries.  Chopin's characters are often unsatisfied with all of those restrictions.

So, Alcee represents a way for Calixta to break free from those expectations, and to find "happiness" and "freedom".  Through Alcee, she can fulfill her desire for excitement and diversity, she can feel desirable and appreciated, she can feel the thrill of stepping outside accepted social norms, AND she can do it all while keeping the good parts of her marriage--a loving husband and child, a house, a stable income.  Alcee is the "solution" to Calixta's underlying unhappiness with her state.  Chopin illustrates this as Calixta is happy instead of "overscrupulous" when the boys come home covered in mud; the last line states that, after the storm and Alcee came and all that went on, that "everyone was happy."  During their tryst, Chopin uses imagery and figurative language that is very descriptive to describe the elation and bliss that Calixta experiences.  She is "knowing for the first time" the joy of that experience, she

"was like a creamy lily that the sun invites to contribute its breath and perfume to the undying life of the world."

These flowery descriptions and detailed imagery relate the happiness, freedom and unleashing of joy that Alcee, in this story, represents.

I hope that those thoughts help a bit; good luck!

What were the key features of the Watergate Scandal and what was the effect on American politics?

On the evening of June 16, 1972 a security guard in the Watergate hotel noticed a piece of tape on a lock of a door to the Democratic Headquarters; his report set off a chain of events that would lead to the demise of Richard Milhous Nixon as president of the United States.  The tape had been placed on the door's lock as part of a plan to rattle Democratic campaign leaders and tarnish the reputation of the party.

Ironically, of course, the tarnish came not to the Democratic party, but to the Republican.  In efforts to cover-up their activities, John Ehrlichman, President and Chief of DomesticCouncil, and Bob Halderman, Chief of Staff, leaders in the operation, were fired.  Later, it would be revealed that Nixon did know about the break-in.

Initially the news media reported this incident as a minor story with little significance.  However, two reporters for The Washington Post, renowned as a pro-Democratic newspaper, Carl Berstein and Bob Woodard, began to dig deeper.  Their investigations were assisted by an anonymous informer who called himself "Deep Throat."  (In recent years this man has made his identity public; William Mark Felt, Sr.,an FBI agent.)  These investigations ripped open many cancerous sores in the Nixon presidency.  There were other clandestine operations in which Nixon had been involved including the infamous secretive tapes he made and the shoe box he had in a drawer containing "Hush Money" as well as his involvement with people of questionable reputations.

The Watergate Scandal is a classical tragedy.  For, President Nixon had had a very successful first term, having received worldwide recognition and respect in foreign affairs (he was good in these affairs as Vice-President under Eisenhower).  He opened trade with China, for one thing.  He was leading in the polls, and won the 1972 election by a large majority, so there was no need for him to have fretted about the Democratic Party.  But, because Nixon had led John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election by 11 points in the polls as late as September, a960, and then lost after the television debates, Richard Nixon developed his tragic flaw:  He became paranoid.  As a result, he had his various clandestine activities.  Like any tragic hero, Nixon also had his great fall, having to resign from office and turn over the reigns to the Speaker of the House, Gerald Ford, since the Vice-President Spiro Agnew was charged with nefarious deeds and had to resign.

After Gerald Ford's appointment as President, the Republican party was in shambles, public confidence in the office of president was certainly lost, and, as a result, legislation was passed restricting some of the privileges of this office.  In a backlash against the Republicans, the Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter--as inexperienced in foreign affairs as great as Nixon was--was elected mainly because the American public did not forgive Nixon's actions, nor did they trust the Republicans.  Voting was a "knee-jerk reaction."  Some view the past election of a Democratic candidate in 2008 as analogous to this same "knee-jerk reaction" and cynicism toward the Republicans in the person of President George W. Bush.

I have a 6th grader who is having a hard time with Math . Order of operations is the page for today .Parent that needs HELP !

Order of operations in mathematics is  to decide  which is to be first and which operation takes priority over the other.

We know that the primary  operations of mathematics are addtion, subtraction, multiplication and division and any thing involng these with some symlos like btacket or paranthesis, power or order or exponents etc.

Bracket is denoted by the symbols: (  ) , [   ] , {    }.

Order or Exponent or Power  is denoted by the symbol:  ^

Division is denoted by the symbol: '/,  on paper and / in computer  .

Multiplication is denoted by the symbol: x on paper and * in computer.

Addtion denoted by the synmbol:  +

Subtraction denoted by the symbol:  -

In  mathematical  problems involving all these operations , priority principle is, BODMAS . That is, first priority is  to take up the contents of Bracket and simplify , then go for Order or Exponent, and then the DIvision or Mutiplication, then Addition or Subtractiion.

Some call this mnemonic, BODMAS by the abbreviation ,PEMDAS or PEDMAS, where P stands for Paranthesis or Bracket, and  E for Exponent.But anyway the priority rule is the same.

Division or multiplication are of equal priority.

Addition and subtraction are of equal priority.

Under equal priority level of operations go from left to right,the first come first served principle. Do not choose from the middle.

Practice makes everything easy . Below we give some examples which may help clear confusion. I purposely give such examples where even the math-literates falter, keeping a blind eye over their mistakes.

Example: 10/2*3: First operation: 10/2=5 as divison is a priority. The result is multiplied by 3 . So ,  5*3 =15

10/(2*3): First operation 2*3 =6, as bracket is first operation with higher priority over division. Then 10/6= 1and4/6 =1.6667 nearly.

Example: 5+ 30/10*10 =5+3*10=35.(Mind that this is not equivalent to 5+30/10^2)

Example: 5+30/10^2 = 5+30/100 , the exponent in 10^2 has priority over Division.

Example:200/5*5 =200/5=40. Then 40*5=200

Example 200/5^2=200/25=8.

200/5*5 is not equal to 200/5^2.

Example:( Probably most confusing).

200/10/5: All divisions are of same priority. So go from left to right.200/10=20. Then the result , 20/5 =4. You can't take 10/5 first because , 200/10 comes earlier than 10/5.

Hope this helps.

How can managers be encouraged to act in shareholders' interests?

The best way to encourage any person to act in the interest of an organization is to link that person's achievement of his or her individual objectives to achievement of organizational objectives. This principle is valid also for encouraging managers to act in shareholders' interest.

Shareholders' interest are best served when the company performs well in terms of profit and growth, which in urn leads to higher dividends and appreciation in value of company shares. Managers can be motivated to improve the performance of the company, by linking their reward and punishment system closely to their contribution to the success of the organization. In doing this two areas need close attention. First, the rewards should include, in addition to monetary and other benefits, also benefits such as work satisfaction and recognition. Second, care should be taken to ensure that contribution of individual managers to the total organization should be assessed properly. Particular care should be taken to ensure that individual success is not achieved at the cost of group effectiveness, and long term interests are not sacrificed to achieve good results in short term.

What is the theme, or message, in the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier?

One of the central messages of this short story seems to be summed up in the main symbol of the story, the marigolds, and the narrator's actions in destroying them. From the start it is clear that the marigolds are a symbol in the short story, in that they have a meaning above and beyond their literal significance. The narrator is clearly puzzled by the marigolds, especially given the nature of Miss Lottie's home:

Miss Lottie's marigolds were perhaps the strangest part of the picture. Certainly they did not fit in with the crumbling decay of the rest of her yeard. Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passionate and sun-golden.

In addition to this description, we are told of the care that Miss Lottie takes in working on her marigolds, working on them "all summer". The children come to hate these marigolds:

For some perverse reason, we children hated those marigolds. They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand; they did not make sense.

However, by the end of the short story, the narrator realises herself the symbolic significance of the marigolds, however, only after she has destroyed them:

Whatever verve there was left in her, whatever was of love and beauty and joy that had not been squeezed out by life, had been there in the marigolds she had so tenderly cared for.

The marigolds, then, symbolise humanity's innate ability to create and cultivate beauty in even the most desperate and poverty-stricken surroundings. This meaning is made explicit in the last words of the story:

For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town. And I too have planted marigolds.

What is the Internet?

The Internet is the world's largest computer network. It links millions of computer terminals by wires or telephone lines in a web of networks and shared software (computer programs and languages). The original features of the Internet included electronic mail (e-mail), bulletin boards, and newsgroups. In the 1990s the World Wide Web (or "Web") became the most important component of the Internet. The Web is a vast interface (the point where all parts of a system intersect) which provides access to the multitudes of Internet sites. Researchers estimate that 20 to 30 million people accessed the Internet in mid-1995 for purposes ranging from checking weather conditions to making airline reservations to shopping.

The precursor to the Internet, called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), was created by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1969. The purpose of ARPANET was to provide a secure, computerized network through which defense-related researchers could communicate.

When scientists and academics using the network discovered its great value, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a similar, but greatly expanded, computer network called NSFNet. The NSF is still largely responsible for maintaining the Internet, which has grown into a vast center for information, databases, and commerce. Two independent groups—the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Network Information Center—are in charge of daily operations, technical standards, and the naming of networks.

Sources: Famighetti, Robert, ed. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1996, pp. 167-69; "Internet." Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 97.

What is expert power and its importance in organizations? Resources: Raven and French University of Texas, Leadership and Power Wikipedia,...

Different forms of power operate within organizations. While some appear formally on organization charts, and exist by virtue of official position or capacity to reward or punish, expert power succeeds because of its ability to persuade people based on what rhetoricians call the ethos of the person doing the persuading.

When, for example, a manager tells an employee to do something a certain way, the employee obeys because the manager has coercive power to fire the employee. Experts work differently. In meeting or corporate communications, experts make recommendations based on their knowledge of a field. People are persuaded to follow those recommendations because they feel that the expert's knowledge and experience make them likely to offer good suggestions.

For example, if an engineer warns a group of managers that a particular design might cause a computer battery to overheat and catch fire, they believe the engineer due to the engineer's credentials, track record, and training. As opposed to managers and salespeople, who may lack technical expertise and are more directed towards the bottom line, technical experts are often assumed to be more objective and impartial, knowing and stating important facts, and often acting as the voice of reason and caution. 

Many of the great industrial disasters and tragedies of the modern era have arisen when coercive power overrode expert power. Perhaps one of the most famous examples of this was when Roger Boisjoly and his fellow engineers tried to warn management at Morton Thiokol that the seals on their rocket boosters might fail in cold temperatures. Their warnings were ignored, and the space shuttle Challenger broke apart, killing all seven people aboard. 

Minnie Wright is the main character in Trifles, so why does Glaspell keep her offstage?

The short play Trifles, also known as the short story A Jury of Her Peers, does in fact have as its main character Minnie Wright. The action of the story takes place after the strangulation death of her husband. Minnie has been arrested for the murder, and the sheriff, his wife, and two witnesses are inspecting the scene of the crime.

Although Minnie never appears in the play/story, she is the main character because all of the action revolves around her. We learn of her youth, when she was a carefree Minnie Foster. Later, after she marries a stern, miserly man, all joy is sapped from her life. We discover that she had a bird, which we imagine she cherished, enjoying its cheery song and exchanging affection with it as she could not her with her cold husband.

The two women in the kitchen discover that the bird has had its neck broken. We are meant to believe that Mr. Wright killed it, an act of cruelty that apparently drove Minnie to murder the man.

By learning these aspects of the story from "The Jury of Her Peers"--the two women, the reader develops great sympathy for the isolated Minnie. Her story is truly tragic. The author's clever technique of revealing the "trifles" of Minnie's life through the eyes of her fellow farm wives in the small town, we understand her much better than would have been possible from her own narration.

AA is a consulting firm. There are about 300 consultants in different areas of specialisation. , such as business strategy, market survey,...

The question describes a very simple chart of accounts. Even the most simple company will need a chart of accounts with considerably more number of accounts. To begin with the company must have accounts in the categories of assets and liability, in addition to the two categories already covered - that is revenue (or income) and cost. Also each of these major types of accounts will have multiple account heads. Preparation a complete list of accounts, even an illustrative one, requires much more information than is available in the question. Therefore, I will cover in my answer only general principles using the two accounts heads as examples.

The company need to classify its revenues under different heads depending upon the nature of its operations and the nature of planning and control desired. For example, the AA consulting firm would like to analyze its results according to areas of specialization. In addition, company may receive amounts from customers under different heads like consulting fees, market research charges, taxes and expenses.

The costs of AA consulting also have many more heads than salary - for example, travel, training and office expenses. The salary itself may be classified in different components such as fixed salary and commission. Further The company desires to have profits of each specialization analyzed separately, therefore it will be necessary to separate salary costs of consultants with different specialization.

To take care of these various requirement the company can adopt the following measures.

1. Have an accounts code of three digits, instead of just one digit as at present.


2. Allot different blocks of account codes to different types of accounts. For example, 100 to 199 to income accounts, 200 to 299 to expense accounts, 300 to 399 to assets accounts, and 400 to 499 to liabilities accounts.


3. Assign further smaller blocks of accounts code to groups of account heads and/or specialization. For example, Within income accounts 110 to119 could be assigned to consulting fees. And then within this group separate accounts can be assigned to separate specialization. For example, 111 for consulting fees - company strategy, 112 for consulting fees - market survey, and so on.


4. Once the accounts have been defined and coded in this way, it will be possible to identify and ascertain the revenue and costs for each specialization, and based on that profit for each specialization can be calculated.

In "By the Waters of Babylon" John enters the place of gods in search of what?

In John's society, so reminiscent of ancient and tribal societies that were precursors to our modern era, as a priest, he wants to go on a "spirit walk" to find knowledge, and as an initiation into manhood.  In similar societies, many young boys, who are growing older, are expected to face initiation rites that usher the boy into manhood.  John, as the son of a priest, has learned a lot, but states,

"nevertheless, my knowledge and my lack of knowledge burned in me -- I wished to know more. When I was a man at last, I came to my father and said, 'It is time for me to go on my journey. Give me your leave.'"

So, he has been trained by his father in spells, chants and wisdom, but he wanted to know more.  That is the initial reason that he starts out on his journey--to gain further knowledge for himself, as a man.  However, when he gets to the actual boundaries of the place of the gods, he could have stopped.  It had been forbidden to go there, so maybe he should have.  But, John desires to enter into the city because

"If I went to the Place of the Gods, I would surely die, but, if I did not go, I could never be at peace with my spirit again."

He had a burning desire in his spirit--his spirit was prompting him onward, to learn things, to conquer that obstacle, and he decided that he would regret it for the rest of his life if he didn't go.  He would always have that burning inside of him, that curiosity, and that regret.  He states as he enters within that his "hunger for knowledge" drove him on.  So, he goes, and discovers quite a bit that he can bring back to his tribe that will help them to progress.

I hope that those thoughts helped a bit; good luck!

Planning is required in in business communication. Identify & enumerate steps would ur following in preparing for effective business messages.

Business communication are of a very wide variety ranging from very simple face to face communication to highly structured and formalized communication such as in complicated reports, seminars and advertising campaigns. It may not be very good Idea to have a common system of communication planning with formally defined steps. For example a busy manager may have scores of face-to-face business talks with juniors, colleagues, seniors, customers, suppliers, and so many other possible. Planing each of such communication formally will not only be highly time consuming and wasteful, but also result in poor and ineffective communication.

Instead of trying to plan each and every business message using a common planning process, it will be better to follow some general guidelines for effective business communication. These include the following:

• Communication should be designed to suit the recipient. It should use such language that it is understood by the recipient correctly and clearly.


• Wherever possible, a confirmation should be obtained that the message has been received and understood by the recipient as intended.


• Timing of the communication can have considerable impact on how the message will be understood, accepted and used by the recipient. Making a proposal to your boss about some long term plans, when he is busy dealing with some immediate crisis on the shop-floor, is not very likely to receive much attention. Also, a reminder for a meeting due may be most effective when given, say, fifteen minutes before the meeting is due rather than four hours before meeting or just when meeting is about to start.


• Too much details in a message tend to dilute the important parts of the message. Therefore, the purpose of each much should be identified and the content of the message should be limited to the information essential to achieve such objective.


• Consideration should be given to the need for being precise and for desired permanency of the message. An advice from a manger to his subordinate can be an informal chat. But a shop-floor machine loading schedule must available in some form of record as it needs to be precise, and may need to be referred for some time after the communication.


• Adequate care should be taken to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality.

What is the summary of the "Jimmy Valentine" story?

At the beginning of the story Jimmy Valentine is being released from jail. He was a burglar, and very good at it. He returns to his old apartment and picks up his tools for cracking safes. Robberies begin to happen again, ones that only Jimmy has the tools for, and it comes to the attention of Ben Price. Ben is the detective that put Jimmy away the first time. Ben knows this is Jimmy's work and sets out to catch him again. Meanwhile, Jimmy arrives in the little town of Elmore and one of the first things to catch his eye is a woman. At that moment, "forgot what he was, and became another man." He finds out her name is Annabel Adams, whose father owns the bank. Jimmy changes his name to Ralph D. Spencer and begins an honest shoe business. He is very successful and well liked by everyone in town and wins the heart of Annabel. Jimmy writes a letter to an old friend, planning to meet up with him and give him his prized safe-cracking tools. Ben Price arrives in Elmore and identifies Ralph Spencer as Jimmy Valentine and plans on catching him. The next morning Spencer/Valentine plans on meeting up with his friend to give him the tools, in another town. Before leaving, he goes with Annabel, her father, her sister and her two nieces to the bank. Annabel's father shows off his new safe and is very proud. Ben Price is there at the bank, waiting for Spencer/Valentine. While everyone discusses the new vault and it's safety features, the two little girls are playing with the vault and one get locked inside the small safe. Annabel's father exclaims that the combination had not been set and there was no way to open the vault. Annabel turns to Ralph and asks him to do something. Jimmy resurfaces as Ralph disappears and Jimmy pulls out his tools. He sets to work on the vault and rescues the little girl. After opening the vault Jimmy turns around with his tools and leaves. He sees Ben and turns himself in but Ben pretends he does not know him as Jimmy, only Ralph Spencer. The story ends with Ben Price walking away from the scene and down the street.

We are not told what Jimmy does after this, nor do we really know what the reaction of the Adams family.

In Sophie's Choice, how do Sophie and Nathan show deception and self-deception and why?I'm also not sure what this reveals about society. Any help...

The deception that both Sophie and Nathan display are pathological in their nature, contributing to making their lives more livable.  Nathan's deception of others relies on concealing from others his insanity and abuse of alcohol and drugs.  Masking it through intelligence, wit, and charisma, Nathan is able to portray himself as the elusive genius that others admire and by whom intimidation is experienced.  His self deception lies in his inability to comprehend the full nature of his paranoia and his insanity.  He cannot muster the honesty to understand his suffering and Sophie's are interrelated as they are both victims.  Sophie is a victim of a present forever haunted by its past, while Nathan is a victim of a present that cannot understand its past.

Sophie's deception of others is rooted in her experience during the Holocaust.  She is a victim of it, yet she is not Jewish, but Polish.  This creates a distinct level of deception on the part of others, as they naturally assume she is Jewish.  Sophie also deceives others with her status as a survivor.  Many believe that intense emotional strength and personal activism or resistance initiated her survival.  However, she reveals herself to be against the resistance cause, at different moments using her status as Polish citizen to try to garner favors from the Nazis.  The traditional depiction is that survivors of the Holocaust were active members of the Resistance, but through Sophie's memory we see that she was willing to act as a collaborator, if it would have translated into her survival.  She also deceives others as she praises her father as a brilliant intellectual, but one who was intensely anti- Semitic, a fact that did not matter when he was rounded up as all intellectuals were by Nazi forces.  Her deception of self lies in her having to make the choice of which of her children should live and which shall die.  She deceives herself in believing that she actually had a choice and could affect the outcome of such a dilemma.  She deceives herself in her constant pain in seeing herself as both victim and tormentor in a simultaneous manner.  The branded number on her arm serves as both reminder of her loss and the crimes her own mind sees her as perpetrating.  To conceal this, she succumbs to alcohol and drugs and a relationship with the abusive Nathan and young Stingo as a way out of a psyche riddled with pain and hurt.

The deception perpetrated and endured within both characters reveals the psychological dimensions of character that exist within all stratas of society.  The ills caused by both political experience and personal upbringing are unavoidable and have a distinct impact on individuals in a functioning democracy.  In understanding these levels of pain along with the ability to strip away the layers of deception of others and self, greater promise and redemption can be possible for both these individuals the social order, as whole.

How does the title "The Modern Prometheus" reflect the influence of Greek tale on the novel? Does it parallel the story and if so how?quotes would...

I think that Shelley's use of the the title, "The Modern Prometheus" was designed to be a modern interpretation of the creation myth.  Prometheus was the Greek Titan who created man and also taught him the use of fire and how to trick the gods.  When Zeus punishes humanity for their deception, he condemns Prometheus, who accepts his punishment with an honorable sense of responsibility.  This particular example of creation shows a love, respect, responsibility, and care from the creator to the created.  Shelley wants to invert this in her depiction of the relationship between creator and created in Frankenstein.  The same elements of wanting to create something (what she will call a "hideous progeny") are present in both the ancient and modern versions of Prometheus.  Instilling the creature with abnormal size and strength is akin to Prometheus giving fire and the ability to trick to gods to mankind.  However, in the ancient story, the creator does not abandon the created- both suffer together.  In the modern version, Victor is horrified with his creation and he abandons it entirely, and then claims to not have any responsibility for it or its actions.  This modern Prometheus shows the lack of connection between a creator and what is created.  In some respects, the paternally loyal vision of the ancient world has been supplanted by a modern version where siblings abandon one another and parents abandon children, with frightening regularity.  The modern version of creation is, thus, one steeped in a tragic condition.

How did past event like human trafficking (slave trade), prohibition, and Jim Crow show how society's beliefs and norms about law were in conflict?

In terms of acts of human cruelty in contradiction with American law, I think that it is rooted in America's challenges with the issue of human "difference."  We can see this in the earliest stages of American political theory.  As early as Jefferson's writings before the Constitution, we can see him extol the virtues of political freedom and self determination, yet falter and stumble through his discussion of slavery.  In fact, Jefferson was more "enlightened" than others when he suggests in his writings on the State of Virginia that slavery is something that should be banned, but must remain because of "inherent" differences between the races.  This contradiction between the practice of the law and the acceptance of its implications result in large part of social perception and the evolving social understanding about racial/ethnic and gender based levels of difference.  When American society has encountered something different, it has sought to demonize it or control it out of fear.  The American policy towards Native Americans highlight this and certainly its initial treatment of people of color has done the same.  Slavery was not seen as something horrific or excessively cruel until the narratives of slaves began to be heard.  For example, when Frederick Douglass begins to speak of his experiences, when Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin, when "fugitive" slaves ran to the North, or when the Grimke sisters in the Carolina saw first hand the cruelty of slavery, we began to see social change evolve.  The expansion of American society's moral and ethical imagination is when the conflict between the law's theory and practice began to be bridged.  This imagination is expanded when we learn and understand more about that which we saw as "different."  Much the same process happened with regards to the Civil Rights Movement.  When we, as a nation, began to understand "separate, but equal" as actually translated to "separate and unequal", and when we saw protesters arrested for wanting to sit wherever in a bus or at a restaurant, social change began to happen.  When Dr. King writes "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and when a nation sees the mutilated body of Emmett Till in a magazine, change happens to make our understanding of the law reflect its rightful practice.  If you wanted to look at it in a Constitutional way, it is when the Judicial Branch and the other two branches agree.  In this setting, our practice of laws becomes directly contingent on our social understanding.  Part of the reason that human trafficking in the modern setting has received so much attention is because we better understand the plight of those who endure it, causing us to apply our laws in accordance to our socially directed notions of the good.

Analyze the corrupting influence of power and trace the corruption of the pigs and their lure of power over the others.

One of the more troubling aspects of Animal Farm is the realization that unchecked power has the potential to corrupt individuals. If understood in its intent, this is a very frightening story. It illustrates the immense responsibility that individuals have in order to live in a "free" society. It is the responsibilty of those living in a free society to educate themselves. Without doing so, individuals are at the whim of those who possess the education. It's clear in the story, that Napoleon (and the other pigs) wanted to keep the other animals "in the dark." It was in their best (perverted) interest to have the animals beholden to them. Orwell clearly was attacking the idea of an unsuspecting populace. The other animals on the farm, not knowing any better for lack of understanding, followed the dictates of those "in the know."

Lastly, the reader gets a good "education" themselves on the power of language as well. The pigs use language (and their mastery of it) to manipulate the other animals so that their wishes (the pigs) are met. And why not? "It's good to be the king," right? You get to do as you wish with no consequence. Eat what you want, live as you wish, have others do work for you, etc. Who needs this "responsible citizen" nonsense? Orwell's story poses some very important points about what it means to be a human being. How does one overcome these desires to live without regard for others? What would possess one to live with the greater good in mind? Why bother? This is the same sort of argument that Plato deals with in The Republic, i.e., that inside of each of us is this idea of The Good. And it is this Good that humanity needs to pay heed to over the darker side of human nature. As Lincoln said, (I'm paraphrasing) "we need to pay attention to the angels of our better nature."

What grief/pain does George have to deal with as a result of sacrifices made by Lennie?(Lennie's sacrifices would include how he often gives up...

Is this an assigned question? I wouldn't consider the things you mentioned actual sacrifices made by Lennie since he doesn't give them up willfully and in the spirit of renouncement.  He is simply 'minding George,' much as a disgruntled child would obey a strict parent.

Remember that because of Lennie' mental handicap, the relationship he has with George is not horizontal but vertical.   He looks up to George as a father, big brother, and nurturer since he would be "lost" without him.  As for George, he resents the ties that bind him to Lennie at times, and then feels guilty about it.  He has known Lennie since childhood, having promised to look after his friend to Lennie's Aunt Clara, the only remaining family member Lennie had left. Now that she is gone, he must assume that responsibility. George's relationship with Lennie is one of friendship, true, but it is also one of moral obligation.

How can I use "A Rose for Emily" or/& "The Story of an Hour" to show how a specific death scene helps illuminate the meaning of a work as a whole?

If you do not have to use both stories, I would concentrate on Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."  It is more subtle than "A Rose for Emily," and Faulkner often relies on death scenes to advance his theme; so "Rose" is really not much different from many of his other works.

In "The Story of an Hour," you have two deaths to work with--sounds bad to revel in that, but it helps you as a writer!  If you focus on the theme ofthe chains of marriage suppressing a woman, you can tie both deaths from the story to the theme. The opening line of "Story" is

"Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. "

Why does Mrs. Mallard have heart trouble in the first place?  Many critics believe that Chopin includes this fact not just to make the story's ending more believable but also to symbolize that this woman is being stifled or suffocated by her marriage.  In the third paragraph, Chopin discusses Mrs. Mallard's initial reaction to the news; this foreshadows that she is not behaving as most widows do when they receive such news.  All of these factors suggest the previously mentioned theme.  Finally, analyze Mrs. Mallard's own death at the story's end and the doctors' conclusion about the cause of her demise.

If you want to analyze "A Rose for Emily" in connection to "The Story of an Hour," you can certainly discuss the theme of tradition versus equality (or freedom) found in both stories.  Both stories use their death scenes to promote this theme.  In "Rose," Miss Emily's macabre bedroom and the discovery of Homer Barron's corpse illustrate the triumph of Miss Emily (once seen as a pitiful, helpless female) over the male.  She gets the last word in other words. Additionally, Mrs. Mallard feel free when she believes that her husband is dead.  While you cannot argue that she triumphs over her husband, you could suggest that in order for her to feel free and independent she must be free of her husband just as Miss Emily had to be free of Homer's possible rejection and the confines of her society.

Hope that this helps!

In Chapter 7 of Prince and the Pauper, why did the two lords assigned to Tom feel that he was not the real Prince?Explain why.

The two lords assigned to Prince Tom, Lord St. John and Lord Hertford, actually discuss their misgivings as to whether Tom is really the prince in Chapter 6.  Lord St. John thinks it is "strange" that Tom's madness "could so change his port and manner".  Lord St. John cannot understand how madness could "filch from (Tom"s) memory...the customs and observances that are his due...and, leaving him his Latin, strip him of his Greek and French".   Lord Hertford silences Lord St. John immediately, telling that his doubts are treasonous, but upon further meditation, Lord Hertford experiences some uncertainties of his own about Tom's strange behavior.  Lord Hertford reconciles the situation in his mind, however, reasoning that if Tom were an "imposter and called himself prince...that would be natural", but since Tom is called a prince by everyone else yet denies it himself, he is truly acting out of madness (Chapter 6).

Although the two lords are not mentioned in Chapter 7, Tom's behavior gives a marvelous illustration as to why they may have doubts that he is the real prince.  Tom attends his first royal dinner, and makes gaffe after gaffe, being totally unfamiliar with the ceremony involved with seemingly his every move.  He is unaware that before he eats, a servant must fasten a napkin about his neck, and that when he wants to drink, a royal cupbearer must bring the cup to his lips.  When he is given a very ornate napkin, he asks that it be taken away, lest he should dirty something so fine, and when he is brought a bowl of rose water to wash with after the meal, he "gravely" takes a sip out of it, having no idea what it is for.  Trying his best to understand and conform to the formalities involved in virtually everything he does, he refrains from scratching his nose when it itches until he has sought the advice of his entourage, assuming that some ornate "custom and usage" must be followed in this situation as well (Chapter 7).

What role do the communists play in a modern industrial society and how do they interact with the proletariat?

Communism is a political and economical system for management which is based on the central premise that all means of production should be owned collectively by the public rather than a few individuals.

Proletariat refers to people in the working class who, as per communistic concepts, are differentiated from bourgeoisie, who are the people who own and manage the means of production.The aim of communism is to create a classless society - a society which ahas neither bourgeoisie nor proletariat.

As per original concepts of communism, developed by Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, this classless society was to be created by proletariat taking over control of all means of production, and management the society to develop a class less society. However, V.I. Lenin modified the original concept of Karl Marx and suggested that the task of building up a classless society can only be accomplished, instead of proletariat, by a group of intellectuals committed to the communistic ideology and capable of managing the task. This group of intellectuals constitute the communist party as per scheme of Lenin.

From the above discussions a few things emerge as follows:

• Communist play a role in modern industrial societies only in countries having communist system of government.

• Theoretically there is no proletariat class when communist government is established. Everyone in the economy is supposed to be a common owner of means of production, and is supposed to share equally the benefits from their produce. This of course is a theoretical concept, In reality the members of the communist party become the elite group in the society.


• If we consider the common people in the communist countries, who are not the members of the elite group of communist party, as the proletariat, we can say that the communist party is the manager of their common property. This includes the management and supervision of the work of people, as well as taking decision on distribution of the outputs generated. Theoretically the communist party is supposed to work in the common interest of the people and the distribution of outputs of the means of production is supposed to be equal among all the people. However in practice this  may not really be so.

Jealousy is the central theme in Othello. Identify those instances where it is mentioned or where it occurs in the play. Prove or disprove by...

The following exchange between Desdemona, Iago, and Othello, concerning Cassio is an example of the jealousy theme that runs through the play.

"Des. Well, do your discretion. [Exit CASSIO. 
Iago. Ha! I like not that. 
Oth. What dost thou say? 
Iago. Nothing, my lord: or if—I know not
what. 
Oth. Was not that Cassio parted from my
wife? 
Iago. Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot
think it 
That he would steal away so guilty-like,
Seeing you coming.
Oth. I do believe 'twas he. 
Des. How now, my lord! 
I have been talking with a suitor here, 
A man that languishes in your displeasure.
Oth. Who is't you mean? 
Des. Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good
my lord,
If I have any grace or power to move you, 
His present reconciliation take;
For if he be not one that truly loves you, 
That errs in ignorance and not in cunning, " (Shakespeare)

In this scene, Cassio is speaking to Desdemona, but not because they are having an illicit affair, but because he wants her help to get back into Othello's good graces.  Iago uses the opportunity to interpret the scene as something that it is not, a lover, Cassio, hastily leaving his beloved, Desdemona, in a hurry because her husband is arriving.

Iago makes it appear that Cassio and Desdemona were involved in some intimate activity, which causes Othello to feel suspicion and jealousy.

"Iago, the agency of human evil, is able to twist the distinction between what something is and what it appears to be, and it is this deception that stands at the bottom of Othello's tragic tale."

Iago does not let go of this suspicion, he is the central manipulator in the play who uses Othello's insecurities against him and conjures images that cause the main character to experience raging jealousy.

In the following scene, it is a continuation of the same thought, Iago is trying to stir Othello's imagination against him, since he has to leave his beautiful wife.

"Iago. My noble lord,—
Oth. What dost thou say, Iago?
Iago. Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd
my lady, 
Know of your love?
Oth. He did, from first to last: why dost thou 
ask? 
Iago. But for a satisfaction of my thought;
No further harm.
Oth. Why of thy thought, Iago?
Iago. I did not think he had been acquainted 
with her.
Oth. O! yes; and went between us very oft. 
Iago. Indeed!
Oth. Indeed! ay, indeed; discern'st thou
aught in that? 
Is he not honest?
Iago. Honest, my lord?
Oth. Honest! ay, honest.
Iago. My lord, for aught I know. 
Oth. What dost thou think?
Iago. Think, my lord!

Oth. Think, my lord!" (Shakespeare)

Iago is a master at setting up Othello to see what is not there to alter his perception of reality.  Iago has a hidden agenda to destroy Othello, so he leads him down a path that he knows will stir his insecurities and create an insurmountable jealousy and rage towards his beautiful wife, Desdemona.

How does the piano symbolize the conflict between Jing Mei and her mother as well as the conflict within the mother herself?

You have asked two questions there - rules are you can only ask one, so I will respond to the first, which will include some heavy hints about the second... :-)

The end of "Two Kinds" represents both the end of the conflict between Jing Mei and her mother that can be traced throughout this short story and Jing Mei's own self-acceptance of herself as an individual.

From the first, it is clear that playing the piano is another one of Jing-Mei's mother's schemes to force her daughter into becoming a child prodigy. When Jing-Mei is told about her classes, she "felt as though I had been sent to hell." Her response to her mother clearly displays how she views what is happening: "Why don't you like me the way I am?" She sees her mother's schemes as a reflection on herself and feels that she is not accepted by her mother if she cannot be a genius.

It is only when she hears her mother bragging that Jing-Mei decides to "stop her foolish pride" with the dramatic climax of the story in the concert, beginning a catalogue of choices or "failures" where Jing-Mei asserted "my own will, my right to fall short of expectations."

Before her mother dies, Jing Mei is given the piano by her mother. It is interesting that she describes this as a "shiny trophy" - a metaphor that clearly indicates her feelings about the piano and about her conflict with her mother over her piano playing. Jing Mei regards the piano as a "shiny trophy" because she has won it, but on her own terms, rather than through being forced to do something by her mother.

Explain in detail the literary devices used in the poem "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket."

Poetry and music in nature do not perish.This is the theme that Keats developes in his poem "The grasshopper and the cricket",where he says that summer and winter are not to be taken as opposites-they are but parts of the same,wonderful cycle of seasons which keeps repeating itself.Every season has its own beauty and melody,which one must learn to discern for only then one can appreciate and admire the continuity of the stream of life.

In the octet,Keats calls the grasshopper the poet of summer and dedicates these eight lines to him.On a scorching day when the blazing rays of the sun threatens to sap every drop of energy,Nature's musicians-the birds stop singing their delightful songs and seek refuge in the cool shade offered by the leafy boughs of the trees.Exhausted and made languid by the intolerable heat,they fall silent,even then the music of earth doesnot come to an end for it is,at this hour that one can hear the tiny grasshopper chirping merrily,as he frisks about from hedge to hedge,luxuriating in the gaiety and abundance of the season.

Undisturbed by the heat,he expresses immense joy as he flits about in the air,filled with the fragrance of the freshly-mown grass in the meadows.When he is exhausted or a little breathless he rests beneath a pleasant cooling weed for a fleeting moment before resuming into song again with renewed vigour.Thus the grasshopper,the poet of summer keeps alive the poetry of earth in this scorching season.

In the sestet,Keats dubs the cricket,the poet of winter.He assures that the poetry of earth doesnot ever cease,for the poets of nature are assigned to keep it alive during the different seasons.Winter arrives with its icy touch,imposing a death-like silence on surroundings for nature is now bleak and desolate,with the curtain of frost.The snow lies like a mantle on the groundand all creaturs seek the shelter of their own homes.Eve then,the tireless bard of winter keeps the music of earth alive.Breaking the painful silenceof a long,cheerless winter evening comes the cricket's shrill notes from somewhere near the stove.His joyous song permeates the surroundings,becoming louder every moment as the radiating heat from the stove warms the room.In contrast to the dull,lifeless weather,the happy chirping of the cricket sounds thrilling,infusing new energy into ones soul.It reminds one that life exists and the silvery snow will soon melt once more to make way for the spring.

The poet describe's the image of a man half asleep,beside the stove,hulled by the warmth of the fire and the monotonous drone of the cricket,he is about to doze off into a slumber,In this semi-conscious state,he hears the cricket's high pitched notes drifting about in the air and mistakes it for the merry notes of the grasshopper singing gleefully among the hills on a warm mid-summer day.The poet thus reiterates his belief in the continuity of the cycle of seasons,what the grasshopper starts in summer is carried on by the cricket throughout the long wintertill the grasshopper takes over again with the re-emergence of summerIn this manner,nature continues the cyclic order of seasons with her very own minstrels taking upon themselves the responsibility of keeping alive the poetry of earth.

What is the setting in Fahrenheit 451?

The setting provides the location for the action of the novel it can also provide historical and cultural context for the characters.

The setting is in the future, as are most Science Fiction novels, the setting sets the backdrop for the action, the world that Montag inhabits has evolved beyond the need for education and learning.  In an effort to achieve sameness, to sanitize the population of any possible conflicts among the people, all the people are the same.

The setting in this book brings us into the world as it is, the world that Montag lives in with his wife, Mildred, the Fire house, his job as a fireman, the book burnings.  It also illustrates a world that is mostly gone in the presence of the character Clarisse McClellan, whose family clings to the old ways, so this gives the reader perspective on the history of the society in which Montag lives.

The setting can also symbolize the emotional state in which the characters live, in this novel, Mildred's emotional state is illustrated by her need for her fourth wall, the giant television screens, of which she has three in order to view her "family" as she calls them.  These people on the television show are more important to her than her husband.

Then there is the setting which includes Faber and the other members of the resistance movement, they are an example of the possible future, where books might become valuable again.

Faber and the book people are a small group who might be the only survivors after the war, that is about to erupt, takes place, so they are part of the future.

What kind of person is Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

In "To Kill a Mockingbird," Boo Radley figures as a person who fits the first line of a poem by William Wordsworth:  "The World is too much with us."  For, Boo who at one time in his youth rebelled against his fanatical father by fighting back, was severely punished.  Now, misunderstood by the exterior world, he sequesters himself from the world in a manner not unlike Emily Dickinson.  And, like Miss Dickinson, Boo is a sensitive and delicate soul, loving and kind albeit misunderstood.

It is significant that his name is "Boo," a name that reminds the reader of a ghost as his is a persona more like a spiritual element than a human.  His small acts of love touch the hearts of the children, and he only "appears" when they are in danger.  In the panoply of characters in Lee's novel, Boo represents the human spirit that must be protected and revered else it will die as it does in the other "spirit-like" character, Tom Robinson.

Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?Please cite your sources

Once the delegates at the Constitutional Convention agreed on the need to compose a Constitution, problems began to arise.  Northern and Southern states disagreed about the nature and presence of slavery.  Larger states with more population and smaller states with smaller populations disagreed about the nature of representation. The largest issue which caused the greatest amount of inertia concerned about the role of federal government in the life of its citizens.  Federalists wanted a strong national government so that a sense of law and order and basic functionality can be present in the new nation.  Arising out of the terrible reality of Shays' Rebellion as well as the high level of futility featured within the first Constitution called the Articles of Confederation, the Federalists, such as John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, were fairly pronounced on the issue of a strong federal governmental body.  At the same time, the antifederalists, consisting of individuals like Patrick Henry and George Mason, felt that emboldening the federal government without some measure of individual freedom to act as a check against the authority would be a repeat of the tyranny featured with King George of Britain.  The Bill of Rights was the compromise that pleased both sides.  Federalists were happy because the federal government would retain its power to govern the nation effectively and properly.  The Antifederalists were happy because the Bill of Rights became the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, and demanded that while federal government possessed power, it did not come at the cost of individual rights.