What is Lee's purpose in describing Scout's first day of school in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In addition to the response above, I think it contributes
to painting a picture of the class system in Maycomb and Scout's rejection of the status
quo, both of which will be integral parts of her understanding of the
trial.

Scout's school experience introduces us to the
Cunninghams, the Ewells, the bus children and how they compare with Scout
intellectually. Scout, far superior, still has moral values and sees how the
aforementioned gimmicks are truly a rip-off.

Scout is not
okay with the system of school, nor will she later be okay with the system of racism
when she watches it unfold in the trial.

Additionally, I
think Lee takes this school experience chapter to stab at the problems of public
education... ironically many of those same problems still exist today. We try to serve
the needs of a diversely growing group of children in a society where information grows
faster than our teachers.

How do Huck and Jim explain the stars?The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In Chapter 12, Huck describes his and Jim's life on the
raft,

We
catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was
kind of solemn drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs, looking up at
the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we
laughed--only a little kind of a low chuckle.  We had mighty good weather, as a general
thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all--that night, nor the next, nor the
next.

In another passage from
Chapter 18, Huck continues his reflection on the
raft:

 We said
there warn't no home like a raft, after all.  Other places do seem so cramped up and
smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a
raft.

As they travel down the
Mississippi river, Huck and Jim enjoy their idyllic life on the river, that refuge from
the evils of society.  While on the raft, the world is good, there is no inequality
between Jim and Huck, there are no conflicts with Pa or others.  Life on the raft is a
solemn experience; it would seem disrespectful to talk loudly on this sanctuary from
civilization with its corrupt institutions.  In the natural world of the river in the
open air with only the stars as their ceiling, the souls of Huck and Jim can
expand--they look to the heavens as an expression of this feeling of expansion and
delight in nature.

Why did Douglass believe he needed to use forceful language?

I believe that you are asking about something that
Douglass says in his Fourth of July speech at Rochester, New York.  In that speech, he
says "I will use the severest language I can command," and
I think that is what you are talking about.

He believes
that he needs to use this kind of language because of how evil slavery is.  He does not
think you can sugarcoat it at all.  He thinks that he must speak out and say that
slavery is opposed to what America is about and that it is opposed to what Christianity
is about.

Because he thinks it is so evil, he feels he must
denounce it as strongly as possible.

In Much Ado About Nothing, why is Hero's name Hero? Is there a specific reason?

Of course we can't be sure why Shakespeare chose the name
Hero, since he did not leave analyses of his works behind for future scholars to
reference.  Maybe this is why we have more research and analytical writing about
Shakespeare's works than most any other author.

That said,
there is no mistaking the reference to the mythical priestess Hero loved by Leander. 
Their story is quite a famous one in Greek mythology.  This Hero had taken a vow of
chastity as a priestess of Aphrodite, and Leander died as a result of pursuing his love
for her.  Ironically, if the Claudio of Much Ado About Nothing had
been familiar with this myth, he might have been a little more hesitant to accuse Hero
of loose sexual morals.  Since Christopher Marlow wrote a poem concerning the
lovers Hero and Leander around the time we suspect that Shakespeare wrote Much
Ado, this could account for his interest in the character name
"Hero."

There is also reason to consider the more general
meaning of "hero" as it is generally used in any story.  The "hero" is the character who
endures trials and tribulations throughout the tale and who emerges victorious over his
struggles in the end.   Usually, "hero" is considered a masculine term, while "heroine"
is the feminine equivalent.

In the Comedy Much
Ado, it is certainly Hero who endures and suffers trials and tribulations and
emerges vindicated and victorious in the end, and, since she is conventionally feminine
in her demeanor (in contrast to Beatrice), it could be a bit of an ironic twist by
Shakespeare to use the masculine form of "hero" in naming
her.

For more on Hero and other meanings of the word,
please follow the links below.

How does Napoleon deal with the mutiny of the hens and what are the results?

In Chapter 7, the hens stage a bit of a mutiny.  Napoleon
has told them that their eggs are going to be taken and sold because the farm needs to
buy food to survive.  The problem is that Animalism is against selling things like
eggs.

Because of this, the hens start smashing their eggs
so they can't be sold.  Napoleon then starves a bunch of them to death.  He says that
anyone who gives them food dies.  He lets nine of them die and then the rest fall in
line and do what he says.

Discuss the relationship in the story "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason. Just a few short comments.

“Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason presents three characters who
are unable to communicate.  Leroy, the husband, has suffered a leg injury in his truck
driving.  He now does nothing except work with craft
kits.

The second character is the wife of Leroy, Norma
Jean.  When Leroy was gone all the time, she was happier.  Now that he is home,  he gets
on her nerves.   She has become a body builder which she started when Leroy was trying
to improve his leg. 

The third character is Norma Jean’s
mother, Mabel.  Her answer to all problems is to make a visit to the Civil War battle
field at Shiloh.  Mabel visited Shiloh during her honeymoon; and she wants her daughter
and son-in-law to go there. 

There is a fourth person in
the story who is never seen but his presence is felt. Leroy and Norma Jean had a baby
they named Randy.  Neither of them has gotten over his death at four months from SIDS
 though it has been about fifteen years.  The baby’s death contributes to the end of
their marriage. They never talk about it.  They avoid the subject; yet, Leroy wants to
dispel the discomfort that he and his wife feel about their baby.  He is unable to bring
up the subject.

There has been a reversal of roles in
Leroy’s and Norma Jean’s marriage.  Leroy now feels afraid to drive his truck, so he
sits at home and does crafts which are typically feminine.  In addition, Norma Jean
works for the family; she also has become a body builder.  Both of the participants in
the marriage are unsure about what they want.

The couple
does go to Shiloh.  Norma Jean realizes that she liked it when Leroy was gone.  Her
independence has been intruded upon by Leroy and his injury.  When they go to Shiloh,
she tells Leroy that she wants to leave him. She is confused as she talks about their
eighteen years marriage.  She tells him that now they have nothing between them, and she
wants to move out. 

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Without looking at Leroy, she says, “I want to
leave you!”

“No, you
don’t.”

….you won’t leave me alone. I feel eighteen again.
I can’t face that all over again. No, it wasn’t fine. I don’t know what I’m saying.
Forget it.”

Oddly, in the end
of the story, Norma Jean waves and calls Leroy toward her.  Norma Jean really does not
know what she wants. The theme of miscommunication takes the marriage to a level that
Leroy does not understand with Norma Jean is unclear about what she
wants.

What is Frederick Douglass's opinion of the Constitution and slavery?from the narrative of the life of frederick doouglass.

I am not sure why you keep saying that these questions are
from Douglass's autobiography when they are actually from this speech he gave on the
Fourth of July...

At any rate, Douglass says that lots of
people think that they have to respect slavery because it is in the Constitution. But he
says that the people who think that the Constitution condones slavery are wrong.  He
says

if the
Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding
instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in
it.

So he is saying that the
country needs to get back to what the Constitution actually says.  He says people need
to realize that the Constitution is not pro-slavery and that slavery should be
abolished.