Why was Sam Tatum tarred and feathered in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry"?

According to T.J., Sam Tatum was tarred and feathered because he allegedly called Mr. Jim Lee Barnett, the man who runs the Mercantile in Strawberry, a liar.  T.J. says that Mr. Tatum told Mr. Barnett that he had not ordered all the things for which he had been charged, and when Mr. Barnett asserted that he had all the things Mr. Tatum had ordered written down, Mr. Tatum had asked to see the list.  Mr. Barnett had insolently responded, "You callin' me a liar, boy?', to which question Mr. Tatum had replied, "Yessuh, I guess I is".

Even though Mr. Barnett most likely did not order all the things for which Sam Tatum had been charged, it was of little consequence that he was cheating his customer.  What was important in the social climate of the times was that Mr. Tatum, who is black, had dared to stand up for himself and question a white man.  The night men, or Ku Klux Klan, operated with impunity in the South during the years the story takes place, and they were very quick to take the law into their own hands whenever they felt the Negroes were "steppin' outa (their) place".  In retaliation for his "uppity" behavior, the night men rode down to Mr. Tatum's place and "poured the blackest tar they could find all over him, then plastered him with chicken feathers" (Chapters 3-4).

When different active BOMs are available, how can MRP be run?It happens when there are alternative row materials can be used, but as far as I...

MRP, which is an acronym for "material requirement planning" refers to a class or type of computer software that calculates the requirement of material to be procured or manufactured to meet the material required for a given production plan. MRP uses two input information to calculate this. One is BOM, also called bill of material, that gives information on quantities of different items of material required for manufacturing one unit of a given product. The other input information required by MRP is data on quantities of different material already available in stock, on order, or under manufacturer.

When we say that MRP considers just one BOM what we mean is that there can be just one BOM for one product to be manufactured. However, there is no such limitation on multiple BOM for multiple products. As a matter of fact use of MRP is justified only when there are multiple products.

In many real life situations, when a required material is not available for planned production it might be desirable to use a substitute material, so that there is no shortage in production. Situations like these can be handled in one of two fays in MRP.

In the first alternative, same product that are manufactured using different set of input material may be treated as different materials and separate BOM may be used for each of such material. The second, alternative is to identify the for each input material the substitute material that may be used. It is also possible to use both the methods in the same MRP application.

When MRP shows that the planned production can not cannot be achieved because of shortage of some input material, it can also show the products affected and materials in short of requirements, along with alternative products and substitute materials. Based on this managers can decide on action to be taken, and input this information manually into the MRP system. Based on this MRP can then calculate revised material requirements.

What is the theme of "Hope is the Thing With Feathers"?

Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing With Feathers," is the VI part of a much larger poem called "Life." The poem examines the abstract idea of hope in the free spirit of a bird. Dickinson uses imagery, metaphor, to help describe why "Hope is the Thing With Feathers."

In the first stanza, "Hope is the Thing With Feathers," Dickinson uses the metaphorical image of a bird to describe the abstract idea of hope. Hope, of course, is not an animate thing, it is inanimate, but by giving hope feathers, she begins to create an image hope in our minds. The imagery of feathers conjures up hope in itself. Feathers represent hope because feathers enable you to fly and offer the image of flying away to a new hope, a new beginning. In contrast, broken feathers or a broken wing grounds a person, and conjures up the image of needy person who has been beaten down by life. Their wings have been broken and they no longer have the power to hope.

In the second stanza, "That perches in the soul," Dickinson continues to use the imagery of a bird to describe hope. Hope, she is implying, perches or roosts in our soul. The soul is the home for hope. It can also be seen as a metaphor. Hope rests in our soul the way a bird rests on its perch.

What solutions for marriage troubles can be found in the tales of The Miller and the Wife of Bath?

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is definitely a commentary on Medieval life and a satire of the duality of people--especially those in the church who were expected to behave one way but more often than not behaved quite the opposite way.

In the case of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "The Miller's Tale" we have excellent examples of Medieval humor and wit.  Both tales deal to some extent with marriage, but not so much with solutions to the problems presented.  The Wife tells a tale about a Knight who is forced to marry an old hag who helped him answer the question, "What do women want most?" Once he gives in and decides to treat her with respect and as an equal (the motto of the worthy Wife of Bath, by the way) the hag disappears and becomes a beautiful, faithful wife.  So, in essence, the answer to marital problems according to the Wife is to treat the female as an equal in the marriage--give her the respect she deserves and allow her to make decisions.  Problems solved.

The Miller is a different story altogether.  The "problem" in the marriage in this story is that the wife lusted after someone else, and she was lucky her husband was gullible and witless so she could pursue her lover.  Rather than celebrating marriage and working on solving issues between men and women, this tale celebrates opportunity, appetite, youth, and cleverness.   There is no real solution to the problem of adultery offered in this tale. 

In Rome and Juliet, when Juliet speaks about "light love" or her light behavior, what specificially does she mean by the word "light"?

 "Romeo and Juliet" is full of light/dark imagery, which often contrasts the sun and the moon, day and night, or the idea of light as representing all things beautiful and wonderful, and darkness, contrastingly, as representing the absence of those things. However, I do think the word "light" in the two passages you refer to above has another meaning - which is quite separate from that.

"Light" to the Elizabethans could also be a pejorative word meaning "easily seduced", "sluttish" or "whorish". A girl who has sex on her first date might be referred to as "light". And this is what Juliet is worried about.

She's worried, basically that Romeo will think that she is "light" because she has yielded so quickly to his advances:

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,
And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:
But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true
Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,
My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,
Which the dark night hath so discovered.

She would, she says, have held Romeo off for longer - only he overheard her before she realised. So he mustn't think that she's easily seduced, because she really does mean it - and she means to prove true.

"Light" then is a kind of "false" - easy, whorish. Hope it helps!

How is the motif of digging related to A Tale of Two Cities as a whole?The motif of digging is seen throughout the novel. How is the motif of...

The motif of digging is referring to uncovering that which was hidden or lost.  It begins in the first book, "Recalled to Life,"  in which Dr. Manette is released from prison.  Long held in captivity, Manette has lost most of his reason.  The process of "digging" to find his sanity is left to Lucie over the years.  Yet still, he has occasional bouts of relapse, reliving that past which he believed to be buried. 

In the same way, Darnay is forced to reveal a past which he too believed to be buried.  His connection withe the Evremond family  has been rejected by him, but in his arrest and trial, it must be uncovered.

Jeremy Cruncher's "sideline" of a graverobber is symbolic of this process. He sells corpses to medical students and doctors.

In all, each character has something "buried," which must be dug up and faced.  All secrets must be revealed, for good or ill.

How does Stevenson create a sense of evil in Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

The author creates tension and evil with the creation of Edward Hyde, the product of Dr. Jekyll's experiment.

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is based on the story of Edinburgh's infamous Deacon Brodie, who was discovered to have been living a double life, coupled with a dream Stevenson had one night, what he called "a fine bogey tale," about a man who drinks a potion made from a white powder and subsequently transforms into a devilish creature."

Suspense is also felt in not knowing what Mr. Hyde, who is a totally immoral individual, will do once he emerges and takes control of Dr. Jekyll.  Hyde is unpredictable and violent.

Edward Hyde reflects the ugly side of the human spirit.  He embodies evil with such ease, it is very frightening to imagine a killer more manipulative, sadistic and indifferent that Hyde. He represents the dark passions that exist in all of us, except in Hyde's case they are in total control of both mind and body.  What is really eerie, is that Jekyll finds himself enjoying his alter ego's escapades.

"Part of him as Hyde "felt younger, lighter, happier in body" and more free than Jekyll ever had, while at the same time he recognized this new creature as "pure evil." Jekyll continued taking the potion until one night he found himself transforming without the drug and noted that Hyde was getting stronger."