In England what is the role of the queen?

In Great Britain today, the role of the queen is
completely ceremonial.  She (and whoever comes after her as monarch) has absolutely no
actual power.  In political science terms, she is the head of state for Great Britain
but is not head of government.

It is said that the current
queen has at least a bit of influence because she has been around so long.  She is kept
"in the loop" on important matters of government and actually talks to Prime Ministers
relatively often.  However, she is not able to exert any power over them other than
perhaps some persuasive power if they choose to give it to
her.

Instead, all the monarch does is to be a symbol of
British unity and of the British nation -- in other words, she is the head of
state.

What is the author's style in The Poisonwood Bible? Can you give examples of that style?

The style of writing in the Poisonwood
Bible by Barbara Kingsolver involves the rather unique style of using five
different narrators of varying ages each telling the story from their first person point
of view. This style brings interest and depth to both the plot and characterizations in
the novel which is divided into books. Each book begins with Orleanna Price, the mother
peering back while narrating the chapter as she reflects on a particular time in the
family’s journey with her point of view. The other four narrators are Oleanea’s
daughters Ruth May, Adah, Rachel and the oldest, Leah, who, early in the book range from
five years old to seventeen. They mature throughout the book which gives each of them a
unique outlook on the events of the journey, living conditions, and emotions in each
chapter, which unlike their mother, they tell in
real-time.

Early in Book 1 Orleanna gazes back over the
years saying, "I could have been a different mother, you'll say. Could have straightened
up and seen what was coming, for it was thick in the air all around
us."

Leah, the oldest, talks about her future, "when I am a
grown-up American lady with a backyard garden of my own. I shall tell all the world the
lessons I learned in Africa."

Rachel, speaks with her
teenage perspective talking about missing boys saying, "Which I guess just goes to show
you how unaccustomed to the male species I have
become."

Adah shows her exasperation with the family’s life
by saying, "I never much imagined myself as a woman grown, anyway, and nowadays
especially it seems a waste of imagination."

Ruth May in
her five year old voice speaks to her understanding of life’s problems by seeking divine
intervention, "I was bad, sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby
Jesus didn't."

Each character gives the reader a different
mindset, during the same time frame in the family’s life.

What does the windmill in Animal Farm represent in Stalin's era?

The windmill in Orwell's "Animal Farm" is usually
considered to represent 'electricity' which was expected to make Communist Russia a
modern industrialized nation. Electricity, of course, was only a means to modernize the
agrarian economy of Russia at the time of the Communist Revolution. In Ch. 5 Snowball's
plans for the construction of the windmill are explained in the following
manner:

After
surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill,
which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with
electrical power. This would light the stalls and warm them
in winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer, and an
electric milking machine. The animals had never heard of anything of this kind
before (for the farm was an old-fashioned one and had only the most
primitive machinery), and they listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured
up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work
for them while they grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds
with reading and
conversation.

The windmill
could represent a universal symbol for the tall promises which every politician makes to
his gullible electorate. Most of these promises are never fulfilled by the politicians
and even if they are fulfilled they do not work to the satisfaction of the general
public.

This was also the case with Communist Russia.
Electricity was generated and the country was industrialized and modernized but there
was no improvement in the standard of living of the ordinary
people.

I am reading "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I was wondering what the summaries for each paragraph are?

I assume you are reading the edited version as given in
the Holt textbook, Elements of Literature. You might find it
helpful to try and read through each paragraph yourself and then summarise the key ideas
before looking at these suggestions. A summary, of course, cannot hope to capture all
the ideas but will just give you a flavour of the text. Anyway, here are my suggestions
of how to summarise the selection - there are five paragraphs in
total.

1) People eventually come to realise that they have
to be self-sufficient and that they will find happiness when they have done their best
in their work.

2) People need to have faith in themselves
and in their place in the world.

3) Society acts against
the self-reliance of individuals.

4) To be a proper person,
you need to find your own way in the world and not conform to
society.

5) Consistency prevents people from exploring and
fulfilling their own potential.

Having read these, it would
be well worth your time to go back and read the selection again to see if these provide
hooks to further your understanding of what Emerson was writing about. Good
luck!

Why is the Federal Reserve System of interest?

In talking about the Federal Reserve System of the United
States, it is of interest because it has a huge impact (potentially) on the United
States economy.  This is because of the fact that the Federal Reserve is the central
bank for the United States.

As the central bank for the
country, the Fed can do things like raising and lowering interest rates.  This often
impacts the amount of economic activity that goes on in the country.  The Fed can also
raise and lower the money supply by buying or selling government bonds.  This, too,
affects the level of economic activity in the country.

By
its actions, then, the Fed can have an impact on the economic health of the nation. 
Therefore, it is (or should be) of interest.

What is the introduction part of the critical analysis essay?i have to do a critical analysis essay on "the Lottery". I have been asked to do...

Definitely, the introduction is the first paragraph for
your critical analysis essay.  Now, we need to focus on what introductions need
generally and what an introduction to a critical analysis
needs. 

An introduction needs to ease the reader into the
main idea you want to discuss.  Starting with the main point you want to make is not
necessarily a good idea because there is no buildup.  For example, if you were to walk
up to a stranger on the street and say, "'The Lottery' is a story about a people who
blindly follow the leader,"  that stranger would probably walk away from you. You need
to build up to that idea.  Writing an introduction for your audience in no different. 
What would you say first if you wanted to talk about one main idea in this story?  If
your main idea were about people not wanting to take a stand, you might begin with the
idea that there are cowards in every society.  Do you see how that is a general comment,
but it opens the door to the main idea? 

In most
introductions, you want to structure the paragraph so that you keep leading to that main
idea, which is called a thesis statement.  The thesis statement is usually the last
sentence in the introduction, and we will talk a bit more about that
below. 

In most introductions, you will want to avoid using
any quotes from the story, saving quotes to support your idea in the body paragraphs
that will follow.  It is always best to use your own words in the introduction to
introduce your ideas. 

In a critical analysis, it is
important that you name the story and the author of the story.  Otherwise, no one will
know what you are writing about.  Sometimes, the introduction will include a very brief
synopsis of the story, including a sentence or two about the characters, the setting,
and the plot.  Sometimes this is in the second paragraph, or the story is told through
all the body paragraphs, as you explain the ideas you
have. 

Now, in a critical analysis, the thesis statement,
the statement of your main idea, needs to say something important about the story, for
example, what its theme is, why the setting is important, or an idea about the
relationship between the characters.  A good thesis statement will also give the reader
a "preview" of the points you want to make in support of that statement.  For example,
if I were writing an essay about The Secret Life of Bees, I might
say something like, "'The Secret Life of Bees makes use of many
symbols, the most important ones being water, bees, and a statue of Mary." Now, I don't
know if this is a book you have read, but those are very important symbols in the story,
and now that I have told my reader that these are important symbols, I can set up the
rest of my paper to talk about those symbols, one for each body paragraph.  So, you can
see why the main idea you have must be in the introduction and why you need to give the
reader that preview. 

Once you have all of these elements
in your introduction, you have a great guide to write the rest of the paper.  This is
such an interesting story, and there are many ideas that you can explore to write about
it.

How does the conversation about "the age of disposable tissue"(from Clarisse's house)relate to the events in Montag's house a few moments...

After Millie Montag gets her stomach pumped and her blood
replaced, Guy leaves the house and goes over to the McClellans' home.  He hears the
words you mention.  To me, they apply to what has just happened at his house in a couple
of ways.

First, something that was part of Millie has just
become, quite literally, disposable.  The men are taking away Millie's blood (as well as
the contents of her stomach) and will presumably throw it away.  This shows how much
people have lost their humanity -- their very blood has become
disposable.

Second, you can say that Millie herself is
disposable.  It's like she does not even care about herself anymore.  She no longer
thinks of herself as something important.