What do you think happened to the milk in Animal Farm?

Early in George Orwell’s fable (or, perhaps, more
accurately, allegory) Animal Farm, the animals are becoming
increasingly agitated about their subordination to and dependence upon humans.  The farm
animals have begun to question the existing arrangement, in which they serve at the
pleasure of man, who does, himself, contribute to the arrangement but seems to exist
solely to consume the fruits of others’ efforts.  As Major notes in his address to the
assembled masses,

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 “‘Man is the only creature that consumes
without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull
the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the
animals. . .And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy
calves? Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our
enemies.’”

Major’s speech is
revealing in Orwell’s allegorical tale about tyranny and human nature.  He, of course,
is a boar, and, as will be revealed in Chapter III, it is the pigs who abscond with the
missing milk after Napolean, another boar’s, refrain to the assembled animals to ignore
the issue of the milk: “‘Never mind the milk, comrades!’ cried Napoleon, placing himself
in front of the buckets. ‘That will be attended to. The harvest is more important.
Comrade Snowball will lead the way.”

The boars’ apparent
diversionary tactic, and an important literary device in the story’s evolution, conceals
the answer to the question of the missing milk.  As Orwell’s narrator notes, “The
mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the
pigs’ mash.”  The pigs, it turns out, conspired to keep the milk for themselves,
justifying their actions on the basis of their presumed importance to the broader
enterprise:

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“All the pigs were in full agreement on this
point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations
to the others. ‘Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing
this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and
apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our
health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances
absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are
brainworkers.”

The pigs, in
other words, kept the milk for themselves because of their conviction that their
survival and prosperity is key to the success of the animals’ plan for self-rule.  That
the pigs have succeeded, at least for the moment, in institutionalizing the ancient
concept of ‘first among equals’ -- as would the Nomenclatura of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union in its infamous and decidedly unsocialist hierarchy
– so does this early and prominent fracture in the animals’ newly established order
serve as the central theme of Orwell’s story.  

Who are the main characters? What are their relationships?Just the relationships that Fitzwilliam, Jane, Elizabeth, Mr Bennet, Mrs Bennet, and...

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five marriageable daughters
occupy a large part of Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice. The
match-making mother of the mid-18th century semi-rural England and her husband, the
typical 18th century man of dry wit, constitute a pair of fascinating
foils.

Among the Bennet girls, the most rounded and dynamic
is Elizabeth. Her elder sister Jane, in a romantic love at first sight with Mr. Bingley,
seems to be a foil to Elizabeth. Two other Bennet daughters of some significance are
Lydia and Kate, both of them being immature and flirtatious. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a proud
young aristocrat with whom Elizabeth grows a love-hate relationship, is Bingley's
friend, and does play a major role in this story of
money-marriage-relationships.

We also find a foolish
clergyman in Mr. Collins, and his patroness, Lady Catherine, is the typical formidable
aunt who opposes the Elizabeth-Darcy marriage. We have a jealous young woman in
Bingley's sister, Caroline. Wickham is an unscrupulous youth who poisons Elizabeth's
mind towards Darcy and who, at the end of the book, elopes Lydia. The elopement,
however, gives Darcy a good chance to prove the authenticity of his love for
Elizabeth.

Charlotte Lucas, who marries Collins and settles
down to secure conjugal life, is yet another foil to the woman  at the core of the
novel. We may remember Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner as sympathetic guardians for
Elizabeth.

In Night, how do the Jews react to the arrival of the German soldiers into Hungary?

The first chapter details the feelings of the Jewish
community in Sighet. It appears that they fill themselves in false optimism, choosing to
ignore the very real threat that faces them as a community. Even when Hungary is
invaded, and they receive news of how the Jews in Budapest were being mistreated, they
choose to ignore the very real danger quickly:

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The news spread through Sighet like wildfire.
Soon that was all people talked about. But not for long. Optimism soon revived: The
Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest. For strategic reasons, for
political reasons ...

Note
how the last sentence indicates the way that the Jews were intentionally choosing to
ignore the threat, making up excuses to imagine their quiet lives continuing untroubled.
However, in spite of this false hope, the German Army enters Sighet in three
days.

In Romeo and Juliet, where does Mercutio mock Romeo for loving Rosaline?Hi :) Does anyone know where I can find the part that Mercutio mocks...

Since it is in Act I of Romeo and
Juliet that Romeo is lovesick and melancholy, Mercutio's mocking of him at
this point may be the passage that you want. When Romeo makes a pun on his mood and lack
of participation in the pranks of Benvolio and Mercutio, he
says,

Give me
a torch:  I am not for this ambling;

Being but heavy, I
will bear the light.
(1.4.36-37)

But, Mercutio
insists that he go by saying "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you
dance."

Tut!
dun's the mouse, the constable's own word!

If thou are dun,
we'll draw thee from the mire

Or (save your reverence)
love, wherein thou stick'st

Up to the ears. Come, we burn
daylight, ho! (1.4.41-44)

 
Anticipating Rosaline's rejection, Romeo sees no point in going to the party at the
Capulets; instead he plays on the words of his friends.  It is at this point that
Mercutio mocks Romeo's morose mood by referring to him as girlish and
"tender":

And,
to sink in it, should you burden love;

Too great oppression
for a tender thing.
(1.4.24-25)

In Act II, Scene
I, Mercutio does continue his mocking tone toward Romeo, specifically mentioning
Rosaline by name as he calls for Romeo outside the Capulet
orchard:

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Romeo!  Humors!  madman!  Passion!
Lover!

Appear thou in the likeness of a
sigh

Speak but one rhyme, and I am
satisfied,

Cry but "aye me!" pronounce but "love" and
"dove,"

He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth
not

The ape is dead, and I must conjure
him.

I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright
eyes,

By her high forehead and her sacrlet
lip,

That in thy likeness thou appear to
us!....

If love be blind, love cannot hit the
mark

Romeo, good night.
(2.1.9-41)

Who invented the concept of the resume and curriculum vitae?I would like the source of the information.

Before we try to determine who invented the concept of
resume and curriculum vitae (CV), we need to be clear by what we mean by this concept.
Please note that we are talking about the common concept behind these two terms and not
about the origin of these terms themselves.

The common
concept behind these two terms is to divide a job application in two parts - a covering
letter and a separate write-up on ones personal details including education, experience
and other information relevant for judging the suitability of applicant for the job
applied. Resume and CV both refer to this kind of write-up containing personal
information for judging suitability for employment or other similar
purposes.

There is no single person or event that can be
identified as the inventor of this concept. This is a concept which developed gradually
as job seekers started to find ways of making their job application more effective and
big companies started to find ways of making the process of screening candidates for
jobs more efficient and effective. For both these purposes a structure description of
personal information was found to be very effective. So, job seekers started to use it
for making their job application more effective. Also many employers started to insist
on prospective job seekers giving information on their prescribed format. Initially
these documents for application were called by different names, including simple
"application form". However, over a period the names resume and CV became more popular
than others.

Why does Biodiversity decrease as we go from the equator to the poles ? What is the importance of Buffer zone in people-wildlife conflict ??These...

The climate at the equator is warm, moist and either
desert or rain-forest.  The rain forest biome has been noted to have the greatest amount
of biodiversity in an ecosystem. Resources are abundant both in food sources and in
shelter sources because the rain forest has both a tertiary shelter system and a
vertical shelter system. Water is abundant and therefore not a limiting factor, food is
abundant and does not depend on a climate induced growing season.  Many types of animal
and plant life cohabit the same area. Predator and prey animals flourish in the rain
forest biome which is typically located in equatorial regions. In the oceans, the
equator is where the cold ocean currents are warmed and begin the warm water return
conveyor toward the polar regions. Ocean life in the equatorial waters is equally varied
as that on land. Many coral reefs are located in equatorial waters and form barrier
islands that protect mainlands from hurricane force winds and
waves.

Water is a limiting factor near the equator in
desert biomes, and water is a limiting factor in arctic biomes as it is frequently found
in the form of ice and not usable for consumption by animals. Temperature is another
limiting factor. In desert biomes, water is simply not available. In temperate biomes,
water may be abundant and therefore not a limiting factor. Food may be a limiting factor
the further away from the equator one travels as the growing seasons are shortened for
the producers (plant life) and therefore limit the number of prey species a geographical
area may support.

The further away from the number one life
source of solar energy, the more energy it costs or requires to live in cooler areas.
So, it is a cost/benefit relationship for an animal to move to a cooler area. Is the
energy spent worth the available food in order to live in an area. (Animals do not have
the ability to rationalize in this manner.)

Buffer zones or
greenways are used to help animal life and plant life remain interconnected, safe from
human encroachment, and safe from poaching. Inbreeding in some tiger and lion groups due
to isolation has resulted in some severe genetic problems that threaten the populations
in those areas. Having a green zone where the animal life can continue to live and
intermix allows for continued biodiversity while allowing the animals to interbreed with
groups other immediate offspring or sibling individuals. Biodiversity is preserved as
green areas are protected from development and industry

In "A&P" by John Updike, what kind person is Sammy?

It is interesting that although Sammy is the first-person
narrator of this excellent short story, we only find out his name when he quits at the
end of the tale. We know that Sammy is working as a checkout clerk in an A & P
supermarket. It is important to focus on his language and how we are able to tell a lot
about his character through his speech. He is clearly young, being nineteen, as he
speaks in a kind of vernacular slang:

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She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet
broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun
never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her
legs.

It is interesting that
his character seems to vacillate between apathetic cynicism of those around him and a
kind of romantic sensibility that draws him to the girls in the supermarket. Note how he
refers to the "cash-register-watcher" he is serving:

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...a witch about fifty with rouge on her
cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up. She'd been
watching cash registers for fifty years and probably never seen a mistake
before.

And yet, in spite of
this humorous cynicism and references to "freeloaders" and the "bum" in the store, he is
greatly impacted by Queenie. Watching the way that the manager Lengel embarrasses them
makes him want to commit an act of defiance against the strictness of society and
"policy." Although he tries to be a hero, his gesture goes largely unnoticed. Although
he tries to find the girls, they are long gone, and as he leaves, he suddenly has an
insight into "how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter" if he continues to
challenge the strict order of society as he has just
done.

Thus we can say that Sammy is a young man who
oscillates between funny, cynical views and romantic sensibilities. He shows empathy for
the girls and the way they are treated, and through quitting his job comes to an
understanding of what it is to defy society.