When Paul says he has suffered the loss of all things, how was that loss associated with his accepting Christ?Religion

I assume that you are talking about what Paul says in
Philippians, Chapter 3.  There, he says that he has lost all things for the sake of
knowing Jesus Christ.  Therefore, his loss is completely associated with his acceptance
of Christ because it is accepting Christ that made him lose
everything.

In the earliest verses of this chapter, Paul
establishes that he was a very important person among the Jews.  He was a Pharisee, a
member of the Jewish elite.  This meant that he had a high position in society.  But, in
this letter, he is emphasizing that he has given away his position and his prestige.  He
has done this because he has come to realize that you do not gain salvation by following
the law (by circumcising or anything else like that) but, rather, by knowing Jesus
Christ.

Because Paul was a Pharisee and a member of the
Jewish elite, he lost his position in society when he came to accept
Jesus.

What are the similarities between characteristics of a person and a guitar ?

I assume you're being asked to think creatively here.  If
I had to come up with points of similarity, my first one would be that both a guitar and
a person need the right amount of tension to perform correctly.  A guitar will not sound
right if the strings are tightened too much, but it will also not sound right if the
strings are not tight enough.  You can argue that people are the same.  If we have no
tension in our lives, we have no urgency and we are not likely to work hard and fulfill
our potential.  If we have too much tension, though, we are likely to fail because we
cannot handle the stress.

I suppose the other similarity
could be that all of our parts have to work together for us to function properly.  When
you play a guitar, you have to hold all the strings in the proper way for each chord to
sound right.  The strings all have to work together (not to mention what your
strumming/picking hand has to do).  In our lives, all of our "strings" have to be "held
right" as well.  For us to function at our best, we have to have our work life and our
personal life and perhaps our spiritual life all working
correctly.

What is the setting of Black Beauty?

Anna Sewell's endearing and poignant story of
Black Beauty opens in a large, pleasant meadow with a clean pond at
Farmer's Grey in the English countryside, the first home of the young colt.  After he is
grown, "Darkie" as he is called, is sold and moves to Squire Gordon's park which
"skirted the village of Birtwick.  There Beauty lives in a comfortable stable with
Merrylegs and Ginger; sometimes he is turned out into a paddock or an
orchard.

When the mistress of Birtwick must move to warmer
country, Beauty is ridden to Earls Hall Park. There he lives until he injures his knees
and is no longer handsome; the Earl sells him to a livery stable in Bath.  After
enduring the whip and other hardships, Beauty is sold to Mr. Barry, who also lives in
Bath.  However, after Beauty develops thrush, a fungus of the bottom of the hoof, he is
sold after he recovers.

Following his experience at the
horse fair, Beauty becomes a London cab horse with a new master, Jeremiah Barker, a kind
and good man, until Jerry falls ill and can no longer drive a cab.  So, Beauty is sold
to a corn dealer and baker whom Jerry thought would care for the horse.  However, such
is not the case as Beauty bore heavy loads and lived in a dismal stable in
London.

His new master is Nicholas Skinner and Beauty is a
cab horse again, but it is a wretched life as he is overworked and underfed.  After he
falls, Beauty is nursed back to health and sold a few miles from London.  It is at this
sale that Mr. Thoroughgood buys Beauty and puts him in a meadow where he can recover his
strength until he is sold--of all people--to Joe Green, who does not recognize the black
horse at first.  Then, Beauty is promised he can live out his days
there.

Throw light on the Feminist Movement in the 20th century?

I assume you mean the Feminist movement of the mid
twentieth century and part of the 60's turbulence. The movement got its greatest
momentum from the publication of The Feminine Mystiqueby Betty
Fredan who said that the 50's image of the stay-at-home housewife was a myth that did
not represent reality. She said such women were in a "comfortable concentration camp." 
In 1966 Fredan with the help of others organized the National Organization for Women
(NOW.) Proponents of the movement called themselves "liberated
women."

Among the accomplishments of the Feminist movement:
Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972 was amended to require Colleges to
institute affirmative action programs to admit more women; Congress passed the Equal
Rights Amendment which had been tied up in Congressional Committees for over 50 years;
and many formerly all male institutions such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton began
admitting women. NOW was instrumental in bringing Roe vs. Wade to
the Supreme Court, which struck down state laws forbidding abortions during the first
three months of pregnancy.  There were some failures: The Equal Rights Amendment was not
ratified by the requisite number of states, even when the ratification period was
extended; and the abortion movement created a backlash among Catholics and
fundamentalist Protestants. Still, the role of women in society had changed forever..

What consitutes an analysis of an epiphany for a paper topic?Our assignment is to choose and perform an analysis of a specific epiphany. I have...

For James Joyce, an epiphany is the moment at which a
character has a sudden insight or enlightenment about his/her situation.  For the young
narrator in Joyce's short story, "Araby," for instance, the ephiphany comes with the
narrator's final lines,

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Gazing up into the darness I saw myself as a
creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and
anger.

The narrator sees
himself as a victim of self-deception who has been blinded by his infatuation--like the
blind street on which he lives--and in darkness about reality--like the dark bazaar--and
his relationship with Mangan's sister has been trivial--like the conversation between
the English shop girl and the young men.  After his ephiphany, Joyce's narrator matures
from an idealistic youth to a somewhat cynical young
man.

James Joyce's story is very carefully constructed as
details from the opening paragraphs, thus, tie perfectly to the ending.  Throughout the
narrative, the boy confuses his infatuation and burgeoning feeling for Mangan's sister
with his idealism and religious fervor.  Indeed, it is this confusion which leads to his
crushing ephiphany as he realizes that his relationship, his conversations and meeting
with Mangan's sister have been merely trivial [Notice in one meeting she turns "a silver
bracelet round and round her wrist" suggesting the mundaneness of their
conversation].

An analysis of the epiphany involves a
retracing of the conditions and characteristics of the narrator that lead to his
self-deception.  Then, this explanation is followed by an definition of the narrator's
epiphany and how it came about.  That is, how the character realizes his
self-delusions.

Comment on the significance of the title Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The central theme of this excellent work, which was, of
course, made into the film Bladerunner starring Harrison Ford, is
the nature of humanity. What makes us human? And in particular, when we are in a world
populated by humans and androids who resemble humans so perfectly and even have emotions
and are given their own past, like Rachel, what separates us from androids? We, as
humans, are able to dream of one day having possessions or reaching positions of
happiness and contentment, but are androids able to have similar dreams, just as Deckard
dreams of having his own electric sheep? And if they are, what really does make us
different from artificially formed life?

Thus the question
of the title goes to the heart of the theme of humanity in the play and how we define
it. Throughout it all, the worrying notion of Deckard himself being a replicant
questions our own basis of how we define ourselves and severely limits the sense in
which we can consider ourselves to be unique.

In what ways was the US's preparation for WW2 similiar and different to that of WW1?

The major difference between these two is that the US
government, led by Pres. Roosevelt, was much more proactive about preparing for and
trying to get involved in WWII.  This is in contrast to Wilson's policy of trying to
avoid involvement in WWI.

Once WWII started in Europe, FDR
took many steps to help the Allies and to get the US ready in case it got into the war. 
The most obvious of the steps that were meant to prepare the US for war was the fact
that the US started drafting men into the armed forces in September of 1940.  This was
the first time that the US had ever had a draft when it was not at war.  By contrast,
there was no draft and no major buildup of weapons in the period between the start of
WWI in 1914 and the US entry in 1917.

The most obvious
similarity occurred once the US had entered the wars and was trying to get ready to
fight effectively.  In both wars, the government set up agencies to help ensure that
materials needed for the war would be available.  These agencies did things like working
with businesses to make sure that military materiel (rather than civilian consumer
goods) were produced.