Which of the following works would be most likely to agree with the statement below?Business owners are allowed to keep their private status, but...

The only possible answer to this question is B.  The
system described is compatible only with the Nazis'
ideology.

The system that is described above cannot be
either communism or capitalism.  In communism, the means of production are not left in
private hands.  Therefore, the idea that businesses will still be owned by private
citizens is incompatible with Marx.  However, the statement is also incompatible with
capitalism.  In a capitalist system, state labor is not given to private companies. 
Neither are private companies made to produce goods "in the interest of the
state."

This is, instead, a statement of Naziism or
fascism.  In a fascist system, companies remain private but are expected to act in close
coordination with the government.

What kind of poem is "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"?

This is one of Emily Dickinson's more intriguing poems,
written in six quatrains with a regular rhyme in the second and fourth lines alone. The
majority (though not all) of the rhythm is iambic, with the stress falling on the second
syllable of each foot. However, what is more interesting when we think of what kind of
poem this is, is the way in which, like with some other of Dickinson's poetry, it
presents us with a riddle that we need to read the poem very carefully to answer. It is
interesting that the poem never once uses the word "snake," but reading between the
lines we can infer that the poem describes this creature by talking about how it looks
and its habitat, and then recalls a childhood encounter with a snake. The poem ends by
telling us that it is the only creature in nature that causes terror in the
speaker:

But
never met this fellow,

Attended or
alone,

Without a tighter
breathing,

And zero at the
bone.

Note the assonance in
this last phrase, combined with the strong and exact rhyme of "alone" and "bone" brings
a sudden, chilling end to the light tone that came before the final stanza. The snake is
shown as a figure that produces terror in the speaker and ends the poem with a sudden
shock.

Compare and contrast the relationships between the mother and each of her daughters, Dee and Maggie, in ''Everyday Use.''I'm having trouble finding...

Both mother-daughter relationships begin in the same place
- in a simple home in the rural South.  The mother clearly loves both daughters.  She
protects and cares for the simpler Maggie, and she is proud of her successful daughter
Dee and looks forward to her visit.

Additionally, she seems
to want to be fair to both daughters, to treat them equally.  She accomodates Dee's name
change and seems to accept her very different lifestyle and choice of partners.  She
agrees to give Dee a butter churn so that she can turn it into decorative art. 
Similarly, she protects Maggie's quilts from becoming wall hangings and denies Dee what
she has already promised her other daughter.

The
differences in the relationships come from the similarities between Maggie and her
mother.  Maggie has remained in the home, following similar patterns of behavior and
lifestyle whie Dee has gone of to school and moved away.  Maggie seems to respect the
simple, rustic life that Dee has clearly abandoned.  Finally, Dee has been able to
succeed on her own; she has strength and intelligence and beauty.  Maggie is not so
lucky.  She has been disfigured in a fire, is not bright and has come to accept that she
is a relatively luckless woman.  Mothers tend to protect these "weaker"
children.

Why won't the family let Ruth see her mother when she is in the hospital in chapter 21 in "The Color of Water"?

The Color of Water is a memoir about
a family comprised of two distinct and relatively segregated cultures. Ruth, the
author's mother, was raised as on Orthodox Jew. Her family kept the Sabbath traditions
and rituals faithfully, were educated in Jewish schul as well as
public school, and ate kosher. Her parents wanted her to marry a Jewish boy, and her
father went to great pains to set her up with anyone Jewish (much to Ruth's dismay).
Instead, she chose to leave home and marry a black
man.

Once Ruth does this, she is dead to her family. When
Ruth asks to visit her dying mother in chapter 21 of the novel, she is told the family
has sat shiva for her--the Jewish rite of mourning. It involves
praying, turning mirrors down, covering their heads, and sitting on boxes for seven
days. While she is not actually dead, once they sit shivafor her,
she is dead to them. That means Ruth cannot come visit her mother, even though her Mameh
is dying.

In William Congreve's "The Way of the World”, why does Millament read Suckling and Waller in Act4?

In the play The way of the World, Millament reads verses
from Suckling andWaller in Act 4 because she is under a profound level of stress due to
her own feelings about how she connects with men, particularly, in the aspect of
intimacy. The poem that she is reciting is supposed to come from a 17th century ballad,
‘‘Ballad upon a Wedding’’, which is a satire of the conventional, super-serious
ceremonies of marriage.

Basically, Millament is a female
character who is archetypal in that she is consumed by her thoughts, and tormented by
her upbringing. She is consistently battling the ideas put upon her as a child, versus
the conclusions about men that she is beginning to develop now that she is a woman.
Hence, with a pending marriage in the future, her disdain for it, and her inner wishes
for freedom, she exists in a conundrum where she tries to find herself. The compulsive
recitation of the poem was a way to cope with her stress and
anxiety.

In Chapter IV of The Great Gatsby, what is the irony in Gatsby's quest for Daisy?

Chapter IV touches upon several aspects of Gatsby's and
Daisy's characters that establish the irony in Gatsby's romantic pursuit of her. His
quest for Daisy is ironic in that she is a woman he can never have. The scene with Meyer
Wolfshiem in Chapter IV makes it clear that Gatsby is engaged in criminal activities;
Wolfshiem is a gangster and Gatsby is, at the very least, a thief and a swindler. His
role in society alone would exclude him from any relationship with the well born,
socially respectable Daisy Fay Buchanan.

In the second
section of the chapter, Jordan Baker tells Nick of Daisy's history with Gatsby when they
first met in Louisville. Although Daisy had loved her young lieutenant, she could not or
would not defy her family and follow him to New York to say goodbye before he went
overseas to the war. She waits for Gatsby for a while, but then marries wealthy Tom
Buchanan. Daisy cries for Gatsby on her wedding day, but she marries Tom as planned. In
both these instances, Daisy is shown to be weak and indecisive; she lacks the will to
challenge or defy the norms and standards of her social class. Even if she really loved
Gatsby after meeting him again in West Egg and rekindling their affair--and that is
questionable--she was far too weak and easily influenced by Tom's wealth and her own
social station to commit to him. Daisy is beyond Gatsby's having; his devotion to her
and his many efforts to achieve that dream are sadly ironic. With his death, they become
tragically ironic.

In The Taming of the Shrew, Act II, scene i, what evidence is there that Katharina enjoys her conversation with Pertruchio and respects him?

In Shakespeare's Act Two, scene one, of The
Taming of the Shrew, I can surmise that Katharina is enjoying her
conversation with Petruchio in that they both participate in an extended verbal fencing
match. Petruchio may be the first man to have been able to keep up with Katharina's
insults and return them at the same time. The battle of wits continues for quite a time
and Katharina does not dismiss Petruchio and leave. She may also respect him because
when she slaps him, he does not fold in half and retreat. For example, when Hortensio
returns from trying to teach Katharina the lute, and she has smashed him on the head
with it, he is dazed and drained by the incident. However, Petruchio stands up to
Katharina and in some ways, gets the upper hand: he calls her "Kate," and gets her
father's consent that they marry.

Petruchio is quite an
opponent, and I believe because he is not weak and does not back down, that she respects
him. I think she is also entertained by his wit and enjoys their
conversation.