Where is the speaker in relation to death in "Because I could not stop for Death"?

Your original question asked two questions, so I have had
to edit it down to one. In this poem it is important to realise that Death is
personified as a carriage driver who politely stops to collect the speaker. It is
interesting to see how Dickinson uses this metaphor to "tame" or "domesticate" the most
awesome and inevitable of human experiences - death. The literal elements of this
metaphor are simple: dying is compared to an unexpected ride in a horse-drawn
carriage.

Therefore, the speaker spends most of her time
sat next to Death in this carriage. Note how the first stanza describes
it:

The
Carriage held but just Ourselves -

And
Immortality.

This is part of
the unforgettable nature of this poem - it makes us see death as nothing terrifying, but
just a normal carriage ride with a polite gentleman who kindly picks us up at the right
time.

How far is it true to say that Jonathan Swift was a misanthrope?Discuss with reference to Gulliver's Travels.Please answer in detail.

Whether or not Swift himself was a misanthrope is a
question for a historian; Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels,
however, certainly expresses a misanthropic view.

Many of
the peoples he discovers in his travels are intended as parodies of human
weaknesses.

In Lagado, for example, Gulliver visits the
Academy, where he mets "scientists" working on projects such as "extracting Sun-Beams
out of Cucumbers," and reducing "human Excrement to its original Food."  Another
researcher is involved in a scheme to abolish the use of words, since "every Word we
speak is in some Degree a Diminution of our Lungs by Corrosion."  All of this is a
parody, of course, on the obscurantism of some
scholars.

The most misanthopic section of
Gulliver's Travels is Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms.  The Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent, clean, talking horses.  Their
behavior is "orderly and rational...and judicious."  Their morality is so pure that
their language does not have a word for lying.

The
Houhynhnms share their land with a creature known as the Yahoos.  They are human-like,
but stupid, brutal, and filthy.  The Houhyhnmns use the Yahoos as
slaves.

Gulliver realizes that he is not much better than
the Yahoos, and he becomes ashamed of his humanness.  When he finally returns to
England, he is greeted by his wife and children, but is repulsed by their similarity to
the Yahoos:

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The Sight of them filled me only with Hatred,
Disgust and Contempt...My Wife took me in her Arms, and kissed me; at which, having not
been used to the Touch of that odious Animal for so many Years, I fell in a Swoon for
almost an Hour.

What were educational opportunities for women during the colonial period?

Education was not available to girls for a majority of the
colonial era. This kept female literacy rates very low until the end of the eighteenth
century. The education that was offered was usually for domestic and religious purposes.
For example the Puritans of New England, taught all children how to read so that they
could read the Bible. Unlike boys, girls were only taught how to od things like
needlework and cooking.

The lack of education kept women
away from getting involved in business or law. An exception to this was the Dutch colony
of New Netherland, which is the present day New York. Here both men and women were
actively involved in business and legal life. In this region the over 75 percent of the
women could read and write by the late 1600s, which was in sharp contrast to the 30
percent who could do the same in New England.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, what are some examples of indirect Puritan characterization?

You asked more than one question so I have had to edit
your question down. Please remember that you can only ask one
question.

You have asked a very interesting question that
explores the Puritanism of the play and the way in which some of the characters are so
focussed on their particular brand of religion that they are not able to look outside of
that and discover the more sensible and logical explanations for what they are
witnessing.

In a sense, this is linked to a key theme of
the play which is bigotry. Throughout the events in Salem we see the effects of
religious zeal, fear of heresy, intolerance and superstition. Reverend Hale, for
example, is so proud of his knowledge of witchcraft that he is quick to accept the
girls' confessions as proof of this skill. Others are more than willing to
accept supernatural reasons or "unnatural causes" for their problems. There appears to
be so much insecurity in the young colony that anyone who questions the authorities,
either religious or state, is seen to be launching an attack on the whole foundations of
society.

The character that to my mind models this kind of
un-thinking Puritan bigotry the best is Danforth. Consider how he talks to Giles Corey,
Francis Nurse and John Proctor in Act III:

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But you must understand, sir, that a person is
either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road
between.

Sounds rather like
George Bush to me! But also, it presents us with a character who is so completely
assured that he speaks the truth and the way that he looks at the world is the correct
one - no matter what evidence presents itself.

What was the role of women during the colonial period?only tell me the role in general of women during that time

The role of women in the American colonies was not the
same for all women at all times.  Please follow the link for a good, in-depth discussion
of this topic.

Overall, though, the role of women was
subordinate to men, but not in the same ways as it would later
be.

Women during this time were legally subordinate to
men.  For example, women could generally not own any property.  They were always the
legal dependents of some man, whether it be their father or their husband or even their
son.  Women, of course, could not vote.

On the other hand,
women were much more equal to men economically during this time than they would later
be.  During this time, most economic activity was done in the household (as opposed to
off at some factory or something) and women played a significant role.  Women would be
in charge of, for example, caring for animals, collecting eggs, making butter, and
making clothes.  All of these were important economic activities.  It was only later
that all the money came from outside the home and women came to be more of housekeepers
than important economic players.

I need help writing a 500 words essay about Holden Caulfield and about the author's views in Catcher in The Rye.What does Holden Caulfield think...

As you know, we cannot write your essay for you, but we
can help you with HOW to do it. You really have given two separate assignments. Are you
supposed to write about the author's views, or about what Holden thinks about people
around him? They may not be the same thing, and in any case, are not the same
approach.

Let's say you choose to write about what Holden
thinks about the people around him. If you write about this, first choose a group of
people that Holden has around him because he feels very differently about adults than he
does about children. For example, he loves his sister Phoebe and his dead brother Allie,
but he does not have many positive things to say about his older brother D. B. who has
"sold out" and become a screenwriter. D.B., of course, is an adult. Also, Holden's
classmates at Pencey are phonies and he dislikes them, but they are not really children.
They are adolescents  and on the way to being adults. Most of the adults in Holden's
life are phonies, and he dislikes them. Even the ones he thought he liked often
disappoint him. So, if you are going to write about this topic, I would choose a group
of people and then write the essay about how Holden reacts to this
group.

If you are going to write about the author's views,
that is a whole other topic - his views about what? Are his views connected in some way
to the way Holden feels about people around him? If so, then perhaps you could write
about how Holden's view that people are phonies relates to the author's views about
phonies in life, or how he feels about alienation. You could also compare what Holden
thinks about children to the author's views about the innocence of childhood and how
this is lost when one enters adolescence.

For more help,
read the "themes" section at the link below.

How does stress cause weight loss?

You will actually hear much more about stress causing
weight gain than about it causing weight loss, but stress can make some people lose
weight.

Typically, the connection between stress and weight
loss is psychological and not physical.  When some people are stressed they lose their
appetites.  You have probably heard the idea of being too depressed or nervous to eat,
right?  This would be an example of stress causing loss of appetite.  This, of course,
leads to weight loss.

There are cases in which there
actually is a physical connection between stress and weight loss, but the psychological
connection is much more common.

How do I write a brief summary for this book, Lady Sings the Blues? Do I have to summarize the whole book or just the important subjects on the...

You don't say how long your summary needs to be, but a
summary is a brief overview of the book. Be careful not to include details in the
book; instead, you want to include the main points in the book. This autobiography
contains twenty-four chapters, but they are short. Take another look at the chapters and
make notes about what is the most important thing you should take from each chapter. You
are looking for main ideas from each chapter. It may be that not every chapter needs to
be included in your summary, and some chapters may give you more than one main idea. The
important thing is to reread or skim and to make notes as you do so. Then look at your
notes and start putting together sentences. Find a thesis statement in your notes. This
is the theme of the book, what the auther is trying to convey. Overall, what is the
one main idea Billie Holliday is saying about her life? Certainly, race and drugs are
main ideas in her book. Read your summary after your first draft and make any
changes.

I have included a link below that will further
help you to summarize this book as well as a link to the book. Good
luck!

What effect does The Scottsboro Boys Trial (this occured during harpers childhood) have on Harper Lee and Americas judicial system?This website...

Although this occured during Harper's childhood, I have
heard her in interviews say that she wasn't trying to copy the Scottsboro
trials situation intentionally. It is we teachers who draw the great connection.  Her
real father was a lawyer and race relations and cases were tense. The time period in
which she grew up and the location of her childhood significantly contributed to the
discussion of civil rights in this country because of the Jim Crow laws. These laws that
caused segregation meant that although slavery had been abolished, a whole new era of
racial tension broke out in America.

Lee's parents must
have been considerably adept at communicating about race for her to have produced a work
like this. Because Lee led a reclusive life and wrote very little after her hard work on
To Kill a Mockingbird, I believe she was not ready for the stardom
and the impact that came with her coming of age novel that also captured an era better
than she ever imagined. Her editors regularly gave her the work back for editing citing
that it was too episodic. Fortunately for America, it made it to press and has stood to
serve in the high school setting as a tale of good and evil, and justice and
inequity.

In terms of the Scottsboro Trials and America's
judicial system, I believe Lee's work was the straw that helped break the camel's back
so-to-speak for the Civil Rights Movement to keep gaining its momentum in the 60s. It
became a motion picture quickly after publication and one-by-one impacted public
opinion... this included lawyers and judges. Today, it serves the purpose of reminding
lawyers of their responsibility to stack up to Atticus' character and be fair.  I think
it also reminds the common man to do the right thing when on a jury instead of going
with the flow.

Hope these ideas
help.