What is a quote by Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird that I could use in an essay about tolerance?I have quotes from other characters, but the...

In Chapter 23 of To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout have a conversation about what Jem calls “the four kinds of folks,” saying, "You know something, Scout? I've got it all figured out, now. I've thought about it a lot lately and I've got it figured out. There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes."  Scout responds “Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks.  Folks.”

Harper Lee contrasts Jem’s categorization of people, something human beings do naturally as we try to understand the world around us, but that can also result in discrimination, with Scout’s innocent, pure view of human beings as just “folks".  Scout has a level of tolerance often found in the young. She does not separate people based on skin color or income level or gender.

What is the climax of the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?

The climax of Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" occurs when the old angel causes such a sensation that a traveling carnival and a circus arrive in the town of Pelayo and his wife, Elisenda.  Other oddities that come are a Portuguese man who could not sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him, a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awakes, and many others with servious maladies.

Alongside all these oddities, the "angel" takes no part "in his own act."  He is too passive for the crowds.  Instead, they turn their attention on the new sensation.  Because she represents a kind of "magic" from fairytales and folklore, the people turn their attention to her.

The woman who had been changed into a spider finally crushed him completely.  That was how Father Gonzaga was cured forever of his insomnia and Pelayo's courtyard went back to being as empty as during the time it had rained three days and crabs walked through the bedrooms....A spectacle so...full of human truth and with such a fearful lesson was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals.

After this, the old man with wings stays out of the way.  However, his wings grown back, and finally he flies away,  Elisenda is relieved that "he was no longer an annoyance in her life."  Thus, simple human folly wins over the patient exaggerated character.

Why does O'Brien choose to include the story about a young girl named Linda in the book The Things They Carried?

I'm afraid your question stems from the misconception that The Things They Carried is a collection of stories only about war and warriors.  No.  The Things They Carried is about how humanity deals with death. 

If you look at the collection in this regard, the story about Linda is in the selection entitled as follows:  "The Lives of the Dead."  It is a perfect indication that the dead may not always be warriors on the army battlefield.  Yes, we are all battling SOMETHING (and in this case, Linda is battling cancer), but it doesn't have to be in the context of an army or of a war dictated by a government.  Look at the intensity of this young love here:

Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, ... I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.

If you would like to bring Linda distinctly back to the title of the whole collection of The Things They Carried, O'Brien has "carried" the "thing" of Linda's memory since his childhood.  It is beautiful and, yet, it is sad:  her death from a disease as serious as cancer. O'Brien himself, then, has had to deal with what all of his characters have had to deal with:  the severity and finality of death.

What are the poetic elements in Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"? List three and give an example of eachIf ever two were one, then...

Bradstreet's poem features numerous poetic elements. First, it is structured in rhyming couplets, pairs of lines that rhyme. The twelve lines of the poem consist of six couplets. Here is an example of the first couplet:

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

The following two lines form a second couplet, and this pattern is repeated throughout the poem.

The poem also employs both perfect rhyme (exact rhyme) and off rhyme, also known as slant rhyme. In the lines above, we/thee rhyme perfectly to the ear. In another couplet, however the rhyme is a slant rhyme:

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.

In this couplet, "quench" and "recompense" almost rhyme, but they do not rhyme perfectly to the ear. It should be noted, also, that the rhymes in the poem are end rhymes--the rhyming words appear at the ends of the lines.

Another interesting poetic element is the employment of hyperbole. In saying that her love is so great that rivers themselves cannot "quench" it, Bradstreet is emphasizing the depth and degree of her love through overstatement. Connotative meaning is also found in this hyperbole. Water is an element that quenches thirst and puts out fire; thus, the hyperbole suggests that Bradstreet's love is very passionate.

Can I have a summary of A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman?

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman tells the story of Ning Lao T'ai-T'ai and the many hardships she encounters as she struggles to keep her family together in China during the late 19th century and the years before World War II. Born in 1867 to a wealthy family, Ning finds herself married at 15 and shortly after suffers the fate of many Chinese women of the time--having her feet bound to keep her in marital servitude. Her husband, an opium addict, fails to support the family, and Ning resorts to begging in order to put food on the table. Her husband eventually sells their daughter for opium--not once, but twice--forcing Ning to leave him with her daughter Manze to resume her life of begging.

Ning eventually becomes a servant for a number of government officials, brings up her daughter and sees  her grow into adulthood and motherhood, and even reunites with her husband. Her tales of life in China before the Japanese invasion of her land include many instances of inspiration and determination that provide historical insight into Chinese culture and social status. "Granny Ning" told her story to author Ida Pruitt during the late 1930s.

In school, we have been reading Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."I have read up to Chapter 15 and now we have been asked to do a map on...

I can't read through the novel again right now to find quotations for you, but I can give you these tips. I hope they're helpful. It sounds like a good assignment, but it's also a lot of work. Good luck!

1. Think of the Finch household as the center of the map.

2. Review the main characters in the novel and think about what you know about their relationship to the Finch household or to each other.

3. Hunt through the chapters in which these characters are first mentioned. If (and only if)you can't find quotations, give detailed summaries of what you remember from your reading.

Here's a start, drawing from the source listed below (note: these are not quotations from the novel:

"Maudie Atkinson is a strong, supportive woman who lives across the street from the Finches."

Mr. Avery is "a good-natured if somewhat coarse neighbor of the Finches."

"Calpurnia has a wider life outside the Finch household." (e.g. her black church)

Here are some other characters and details to consider, which can probably all be found in the trial scene: I seem to remember that the Ewells live near a dump and near a black settlement. Tom Robinson (who probably lives in that black settlement) has to walk past the Ewell household on his way to work the fields that belong to the local farmer Link Deas. Also, see if you can find out how far the Radley house is from the Finch house.

How did Dr. Anderson and other local organizers plan to bring about change in Albany, Georgia No

In 1961 and 1962, civil rights activists attempted to end segregation in Albany, Georgia through a series of boycotts and marches.

As their movement continued, many of the protestors were being jailed.  The leaders of the movement did not have a plan for how to deal with all these jailings.  Because of this, they felt that they were out of their depth and needed help.

After coming to this conclusion, they decided to ask Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to come to Albany as something of an expert advisor to help them with their efforts.

So -- in response to your question, I'm not sure which you mean -- their boycotts and marches or their plan to ask King's help.

The link provides a transcript of the Eyes on the Prize episode that discusses the Albany movement.