What important lesson does Jem learn from his experience with Mrs. Dubose in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Chapter 11, Jem is forced to read to Mrs. Dubose as a
punishment for destroying her camellia bush. Mrs. Dubose is an ignorant racist who hurls
insults at Jem and Scout as they pass her house. She tells Jem that Atticus is no better
than the "niggers and trash" he works for and insults Scout for wearing overalls. While
Jem reads to her, she continually corrects him and makes negative comments. Later on in
the chapter, Atticus gives Jem a gift from Mrs. Dubose, who recently passed away. Inside
a cardboard candy box is one white camellia in perfect condition. At first, Jem freaks
out and says, "Why can't she leave me alone?" (Lee 148) Atticus
tells him to settle down and explains that it was Mrs. Dubose's way of telling Jem that
everything is alright. Atticus then tells Jem that she was a great lady who had
tremendous courage for battling her morphine addiction. Jem is surprised to hear Atticus
speak so highly of the old, cantankerous Mrs. Dubose. Throughout this
entire experience, Jem learns an important lesson in the duality of human
nature. He learns that even the unfriendly, ignorant Mrs. Dubose has
positive characteristics. Jem's childhood innocence led him to generalize all people as
either good or bad. In Chapter 11, Jem learns that individuals can have
both good and bad qualities. This is one of the many eye-opening
experiences that impact Jem's understanding, growth, and moral development.

What are some pieces of information learned from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn about life in that time?

1- Slaves where made free as soon as they crossed over to
the North

2- Slaves could be made free in their owner's
last wills.

3- It was considered to be morally wrong to
help a slave escape.

4- The poison of a snake was mitigated
by eating a part of the snake.

5- There were people who
lived on the wood and other artifacts that the river brought down when it
rose.

6- There were strong superstitious beliefs among the
blacks.

7- Property that was sold by someone else than its
real owner, had to return to the real owner when it was
discovered.

8- Families of slaves could be sold separately
to different owners.

9 - Captured runaway blacks were
imprisoned till their owners could be found.

10- Runaway
blacks were advertised through pamphlets with their
portrait.

11- The law could take children away from their
partets if they were dangerous or abusive.

12- The coming
of a play to town caused a great sensation.

13- Beds were
mainly made of straw.

14- In some houses, dresses were
hanged on the wall and they were covered by a curtain.

15-
People were very scared of the smallpox, because it was dangerous at that
time.

I need to write an essay and I need advice on how to conclude it.

If you re-post your question and give us additional
information, it will be easier to answer you more specifically. In general, however,
there are a lot of theories about how to conclude an essay. A very basic plan is to
restate your thesis statement from the opening paragraph. At your level, this should be
done in a skillful way, however. If you simply restate what you have already written, it
will be simplistic. Your ending also will depend heavily on the type of essay you are
writing. If the essay is informative, for example, then you could go the "restate the
thesis" route. However, if it is humorous essay, you have more freedom to be creative.
In this case, the ending should have a strong impact - leave the reader smiling or
laughing at the end. If the essay is more philosophical in nature, it can be effective
to end with a dynamite quote that is germane to your topic. Also, some very persuasive
essays can be ended strongly with rhetorical questions.

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What does the green dress the prositute wears symbolizes?

In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden
Caufield can't bring himself to have sex with Sunny because he imagines her going into a
store and buying a green dress without anyone realizing she's a prostitute.  In this
way, Holden sees her as a human, with emotional depth, instead of an object for
pleasure.

Sunny's dress is green because she should
symbolize youth, spring, fertility, inexperience.  Because she's a prostitute, she
doesn't, but Holden (green himself) sees her in this
way.

Young soldiers are considered green (untested) until
they've experienced combat.  In the same way, Holden is considered sexually
inexperienced.  He has yet to cross this threshold into
manhood.

Sunny's a kid, like Holden.  Holden has problems
communicating with girls his own age and older.  He feels he has to lie to them in order
for them to like him.   It is only with girls younger than him, like Phoebe and Jane
(when she was younger), that he understands.  Why?  Because they're
green--uncorrupted.

So, her dress is green because he wants
her to be green--a virgin.  He wants to talk to her instead of have sex.  He is in
denial of who she really is.  Maybe her dress was red or black, symbolic of lust and
death, but Holden sees her through rose-colored glasses and chooses green instead.  Just
as he idealizes the younger Jane and is denial of the sexually active Jane who dates
Stradlater, Holden wants Sunny to be like his sister Phoebe instead of the girls in the
Lavender room and the hotel.

Describe the theme of honor in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold the
murder of Santiago Nasar is motivated and justified by
honor.

When Angela names Nasar as the guilty party and the
reason she has been returned from her marriage bed, her twin brothers must protect the
honor of their family.  After they commit the act, the courts (as well as the priest)
justify the murder because it was committed to protect
honor. 

Also, the murder is allowed to happen by the
townspeople, at least in part, because the situation concerns
honor. 

This warped sense of honor and violence and revenge
is rooted in the dichotomy, or two different ways, men and woman are judged concerning
sexual relations.  Men are praised for making love with as many women as possible, but
women are harshly judged for any sex outside of marriage.  Men can be playboys, but
women must be virgins before marriage.  Angela is, in a sense, an idol or possession. 
When Nasar "defiles" her, he dishonors her family.

What were the political and economic weaknesses of the Otoman empire in the 19th century?

Sultan Ahmed I was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire from
1603-1617. He was concerned about the constant warfare and civil unrest that occurred
when a sultan died. The sons of the sultan would quarrel and inevitably, warfare would
ensue.

Ahmed's curious solution to this problem was that he
would no longer allow sons to become active in government. They were essentially
prisoners in the palace until it was their time to govern. In this spirit, the future
sultans would only learn to enjoy the extravagances of palace life and not learn the
skills needed to run a massive empire. This policy would consistently produce completely
incompetent rulers that could not possibly govern such a large empire. It also meant
that the sultans would no longer lead their armies in battle, which produced an elite
class of military men within the empire.

The lack of strong
central leadership led to corruption and bribery in the government that further weakened
the political system. The rise of an incompetent central government led to regional or
local governments gaining more autonomy and authority. Different regions of the empire
did not trust the sultan to protect their interests so they started to exert their own
authority. This resulted in a stark decline in tax revenue to Istanbul. With less
revenue, the government became more inept, and the military suffered as a result. This
all happened over the course of two centuries and coincided with the rise of the
European empires of England, France, Russia, and Austria.

How does the clothing metaphor in the captain's account foreshadow Macbeth ripping the heart out of Scotland? "Till he unseamed him from the...

Thanks to the Captain's colorful reportage, Shakespeare's
Macbeth begins and ends with a
beheading: 

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Till he unseamed him from the nave to th'
chops,

And fixed his head upon our battlements.  (Act
1.2.22-23)

and a stage
direction in Act 5.8:

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Enter MACDUFF,
with Macbeth's
head.

The
beheadings provide unity, then, enclosing the drama with identical violent acts.  The
connection between the beheadings is so strong that although only the first one
involves skewering the severed on to a spear and raising it above the battlements (in
Shakespeare's text), Roman Polanski's film version features the same being done to
Macbeth's head to powerful effect.

The tailor metaphor,
"unseamed him," echoes other tailor imagery in the drama, most notably the tailor
reference by the Porter:

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...Knock, knock, knock.  Who's there? 
Faith,

here's an English tailor come hither for stealing
out of a French

hose [skimming on expensive fabric and
substituting inexpenseive].  Come in tailor.  Here you may roast your goose.  (Act
2.3.10-12)

This imaginary
character in the metaphorical hell of the castle is by his equivocation connected to the
famous gunpowder plot, as would be the traitor Macdonwald--the traitor that Macbeth
unseams--by Shakespeare's audience.  Macbeth, too, then, comes to be associated with the
gunpowder plot.

Since Macbeth's sword would have obviously
passed through Macdonwald's heart on its way to his chin, one could say that the
metaphor might foreshadow Macbeth's tearing the heart out of Scotland.  That is probably
not the primary focus of the metaphor, however.  Macbeth will trade places with the
traitor Macdonwald, wearing clothes, and a crown, that do not quite
fit.