What was the effects of the Blitz on everyday life in Britain?Please could you include: Evacuation, Daily routine, Morale, Home guard, where and...

The intended effect of The Blitz was to demoralize the British citizenry, open the way to an eventual invasion of the island and ultimately force a surrender. This obviously did not succeed, although the final tabulation of more than 50,000 civilian deaths and one million homes destroyed turned the everyday lives of the English people upside down.

Beginning in September 1940, German air strikes hit London for 57 consecutive nights, and during the nearly 10 months of bombings that ended in May 1941, more than 43,000 civilians were killed. Since London was the main target of German air attacks, many of the citizens moved to the countryside to avoid the constant destruction. Some Londoners remained away from the city, while many who maintained their jobs merely made longer commutes each day.

Although the city remained in a constant state of rebuilding, the extensive tube stations were used for temporary shelters during bombings and for civilians whose homes had been destroyed. The government, however, discouraged a general "shelter mentality," instead opting for the construction of Anderson shelters--sturdy structures built in back yards which could house up to six people.  

The repeated bombings did force the British to upgrade their air defenses, which in turn helped to combat the assaults as well as uplift civilian spirits. Civilians joined many volunteer organizations, such as the Home Guard, Auxiliary Fire Service, and the Blitz Scouts.

Later raids included the retaliatory 1942 Baedeker Blitz, which concentrated on destroying historic, non-strategic structures in Canterbury, Bath, York and Exeter; and the Baby Blitz (Nov. 1943-Jan. 1944), which actually cost Germany the loss of well over 300 aircraft.

Much of Hamlet deals with plotting and scheming. Who in the play sets plans in motion?To what ends?

Claudius is involved in much of the plotting. In fact, one might say that he sets everything in motion through the murder of King Hamlet. When we first see him, he sends messengers to old Fortinbras to plan against young Fortinbras behind his back. He spies on Hamlet through Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, calling them to Denmark solely for that reason. He uses Ophelia for this end as well, plotting with Polonius to use her as bait. He also schemes to send Hamlet to England, and we later find out that he actually arranged for Hamlet's execution. Finally, he plots with Laertes to kill Hamlet in the duel.

Polonius is the next schemer of the play. Although he appears foolish, often long-winded and making little sense, he sees through Hamlet's feigned madness and suspects something underneath. He sens Reynaldo to Paris to spy on Laertes, even instructing him to tell lies & spread rumors about his son. He freely sets his daughter out as bait to "catch" Hamlet faking his insanity. He also hides in Gertrude's closet to eavesdrop on her conversation with her son.

Hamlet too is deeply involved in schemes. He first decides to fake his madness, in order to extract information from various sources. He writes a play & arranges for the actors to perform it, so that Claudius might reveal his guilt. Whether he does so is open to interpretation, but Hamlet is certainly convinced. He also steals his own execution letter on the way to England, & exchanges it for one with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death orders.

A few other characters are involved in schemes in the play as well. Laertes plots with Claudius to kill Hamlet, although he feels justified, since Hamlet killed his father. He plans the poison-tipped sword for their duel, & confesses when the plan goes awry. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, however unintentional their actions may seem, exist in the play only to serve as surveillance on Hamlet for Claudius.

To what ends these schemes and plots? Claudius' death, Gertrude's death, Ophelia's death, Hamlet's death...see a pattern?

What does Ross say to Lady MacDuff when he informs her that MacDuff has fled to England in Shakespeare's Macbeth?

Before the scene opens in Act 4 Scene 2, Ross has told Lady Macduff that her husband has fled from Scotland. The scene opens with Lady Macduff being deeply agitated. She is demanding to know why he fled and is saying that fear may make a person flee and fleeing makes such a person look like a traitor even though they are not. She goes on to say that if Macduff was in danger, then surely she and her children must also be in danger.

Ross explains that it is either fear or wisdom that may make a man flee and that he believes Macduff to be wise and judicious. He also says that Macduff knows how to act wisely in dangerous times and eludes to the fact that Macbeth's spies are everywhere.

Ross ends by saying that if Macduff did flee because he was afraid, then he would have had good reason for his fear. Ross departs after saying he will return and on his way out sees Mcduff's boy who has heard Lady Macduff's ranting about MacDuff acting like a traitor.

What traits does Minerva Mirabel possess?

In the book In the Time of the Butterflies Minerva is very intelligent.  She is a natural leader.  She is the first to advocate for going off to college and the first to get a college degree in law.  She is very outspoken and mischievous.  When she dates Leo she sneaks around to be with him.  When she sees her father going to a shack she follows him and learns he has a mistress and children.

Minerva is a very strongwilled and adamant person who stands-up for what she believes in.  She is a lttle niave about the true dangers awaiting her because of her political stances.  In the prison she continues to show that she is courageous by holding school and continuing to refuse to give in to the dictator.

Once when she is young the dictator tries to get his body too close to her and she slaps him.  She knows the danger but she also knows his reputation with women and young women.  She also runs head first into danger.

What are the themes in Song of a Goat?

The primary and most obvious theme in Song of a Goat is the problem of the main character, Zifa. He is an influential man who is married to Ebiere but is infertile, or sterile and impotency. Ebiere wants a child and consults the village masseur, who is also the village sage, or wise person. The advice Ebiere is given is that Zifa should give permission for her to bear a child fathered by Zifa's brother, an acceptable cultural alternative to childlessness. This is unacceptable to Zifa and to Ebiere. This theme is literal and symbolic at the same time as it also stands for the other theme of a person rejecting themselves as inadequate. Zifa feels he must reject himself if he owns up to infertility by accepting the alternative offered by the masseur. In the end his brother Tonya and he do reject themselves in the ultimate act of rejection. There are also themes about conflicts between between the ideas held by the young and those held by the old as well as about folklore's symbolism.

Were there any anti-racism activists who weren't African American?--making a powerpont on racism and segregation and i want to get all aspects of...

While there were anti-segregation activists in the 1950s and 1960s, none of them were leaders of the movement so they are not famous.  The first link I've attached is a picture from the March on Washington showing various white people in the crowd around one of the speakers.  You could call them anti-racism activists since they are part of the protests, but they're not famous.)

Perhaps the most famous white activists were Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who were killed in Mississippi during an effort in 1964 to register blacks to vote.

Historically, the most important white activist for black rights was William Lloyd Garrison, who was the most famous abolitionist in the years before the Civil War.

Perhaps the most important white person in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was President Lyndon Johnson.  While he wasn't an activist, it was he who pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress.

Where do the issues in To Kill a Mockingbird stem from; how do they manifest; and are they resolved and, if so, how?

    There are two primary themes in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and they both eventually intertwine in the dramatic climax. One theme concerns the mysterious Boo Radley and how he is treated by society. The other concerns the trial of Tom Robinson, a Negro who has been unfairly charged with raping the "white trash" Ewell, Mayella. Boo and Tom are the two adult "mockingbirds"--innocent and harmless--that are referred to in the title.
    Boo's role as an outcast from society has always held an interest to Jem and Scout, and it grows greater upon the arrival of another castoff, Dill. They try mightily to lure Boo from his refuge in the Radley place, but they never get a look at him until the end. Atticus insists that the kids respect Boo's privacy, and the plot shifts to the Robinson trial during the second half of the novel.
    Robinson is falsely charged with raping Mayella Ewell, who he had tried to help out of sympathy--a trait that no black man could afford to display in the 1930s South. Despite his disability and a stalwart defense by Atticus, Tom is found guilty. He is eventually shot by prison guards while trying to escape.
    The two plots crisscross at the end when Boo is forced outside his home in order to save Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell, who plans to do harm to the Finch children in retribution for Atticus' verbal attack of his daughter on the witness stand. Boo kills Bob--or does he?--and returns to his home to live out his life in solitude. The head of the Ewell household is dead, but there is a whole new generation of his children to replace him.
    So, Jem and Scout are saved; Boo becomes an invisible hero; and Bob Ewell will no longer harrass the residents of Maycomb. But Boo's gesture does not change his way of living, and there are more Ewells to remember their father's end. But for now, Sheriff Tate's reasoning will do.

    "Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead."