In "A Rose for Emily," how does the presentation of Miss Emily at the end relate to the theme of this story?

This is a great question! Of course, one of the the most
striking descriptions of Miss Emily comes in Part I of the story, when she is described
as a drowned corpse that had inhabited the sea for a long time and thus was bloated and
swollen:

She
looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.
Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal
pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors
stated their errand.

This
description highlights the depiction of Miss Emily as a character, who, in some senses,
is already dead - she is isolated and trapped in a different time period whilst
everything is changing around her, which symbolically ties in with the theme. It is
interesting to note that she at first does not accept the fact that her father has died.
Note the madness in the family that is referred to. Lastly, the grey strand of hair that
lies on the pillow next to the corpse of her "lover" suggests that she is one who is in
love with the dead, and that having killed him, she herself has "died" metaphorically to
be with him forever, again symbolically relating to the theme. She has created her own
happy ending, and thus remains an enigmatic, isolated figure until her own death,
symbolically representing the theme of the enigmatic, isolated, lost and dead
South.

What is Shakespeare's style of writing comedies and his technical side?

If you are asking about common comedic elements of Shakespearean
comedies, below are a couple.

1. Comedies end happily in contrast to
Shakespearean tragedies which conclude with death, normally the deaths of several
characters.

2. Almost all Shakespearean comedies include wedding
scenes. The Merchant of Venice has three marriages; Much Ado about
Nothing focuses on the relationships of several couples. Audience members will
recognize this element as a comedic technique. While Shakespearean tragedies often include
weddings (Romeo and Juliet and Othello are
examples), those weddings or marriages result in more conflict either
socially or domestically.

3. The comedies include a significant
amount of banter. Often it is between a couple who is romantically connected, but sometimes the
banter is between the lower class "clowns" of the plays.

While these
are not all of the elements common to Shakespearean comedies, they are the main
ones.

How does Harrison's death affect his parents in "Harrison Bergeron"?

Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction story "Harrison Bergeron"
is set in the year 2081, a time when everyone is equal.  Any talents or abilities are
counterbalanced by handicaps, which of course simply ensure that no one has any gifts at
all.  One young man, Harrison, is magnificent despite his
handicaps. 

His parents, George and Hazel, are typically
handicapped.  As the story begins, they are watching TV; some handicapped ballerinas are
dancing.  George leaves the room to get a beer; when he comes back he sees tears on
Hazel's face. She knows she must have been sad (presumably because she is still able to
recognize beauty), but she doesn't remember why.  This is what equality has
done. 

As they watch the ballerinas together, they see
their son enter the television studio, they watch him soar in a glorious final
dance...and they see him get shot to death.

Your question
is how do his parents react to seeing this sight.  Their reaction is appallingly empty
and eerily similar to the opening scene.  The shots were fired, the TV tube burned out,
and Hazel turned to George who had gone to the fridge for another beer.  When he
returned, he saw tears on his wife's face.

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"You been crying" he said to
Hazel.

"Yup," she said.

"What
about?" he said.

"I forget," she said. "Something real sad
on television."

"What was it?" he
said.

"It's all kind of mixed up in my mind," said
Hazel.

"Forget sad things," said
George.

"I always do," said
Hazel.

This emotionless
acceptance of such a tragedy is a reflection of Vonnegut's themes and fears for a future
in which no one is an individualand no one is better or different than anyone else. 
Hazel was equally moved (or unmoved) by the sight of untalented ballerinas and the death
of her son.  Equality has, indeed, happened--in the worst possible
way.

What were the short-term causes of the Civil War?

Short-term causes of the American Civil War certainly include
Lincoln's refusal to meet with the commissioners that were sent by the Confederate government to
buy Fort Sumter and other federal property that was located in the Confederacy.  This was
followed by Lincoln's launching an invasion fleet from New York to invade South Carolina.  The
Confederacy responded to this by subdueing Fort Sumter so that the invasion fleet could not
land.

Upon the election of Lincoln to the Presidency, six southern
states seceeded and formed the Confederate States of America.  In those days, secession was a
Constitutional right, and  most citizens of America, both northern and southern, so believed. 
When Lincoln called for the states of the union to send soldiers to conquor the states that had
seceeded, seven more states seceeded.  (Two of these states had strong factions that remained
loyal to the Union so that both sides claimed them.)

So we have it
in order: Lincoln's refusal to sell federal property in the Confederacy, Lincoln's launching of
an invasion fleet, and Lincoln's call for troops to suppress Constitutional
rights.

But why did Lincoln direct events towards war?  If the
Republican party and its president had earned the reputation of being the party and the president
who presided over the dissolution of the Union, they would never have had a chance of being
relected to power.

Much of this is discussed on pages 345-378 of
vol. II of A Constitutional View of the War Between the States by Alexander
H. Stephens (ca. 1870).  This book is still admired by American Constitutional
scholars.

How are Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein similar?In the Novel Frankenstein

Both Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein pursue greater
knowledge and accomplishment. They both hope to be the first to discover new, ground-breaking
knowledge and skill. Walton hopes to find a passage near the pole to the North Pacific Ocean to
shorten the time it takes to make that trip, as well as to discover the power of the magnet.
Frankenstein hopes to find a cure to disease and death by learning the secret to reanimating
lifeless matter. Both are focused on their goals to the point of recklessness. Neither seems
capable of predicting the dangers that may be involved in so persistently pursuing their goals.
Both seem to have a one-track mind and will stop at nothing to reach the intended discovery. Both
risk life and limb in the pursuit.

Could you please give me an idea about how to write an essay on a civil engineering project? Thanks

Here a couple of suggestions:  First, decide which civil
engineering project you are going to write about.  Do some research on when and how the project
was accomplished.  Research why the project needed to be done in the first place.  Your question
has the word canal in it.  Which canal?  Why was it needed?  Who was going to benefit from its
completion?  What where the challenges to building it?  Who paid for it?  Does it still exist
today?  Has it been changed or modified since its initial
construction?

Once do you some research on the project then you can
organize the information into an essay.  It would make logical sense to write about the project
chronologically:  the need, the plans, the actual construction, the final results and the current
status.

In chapter 9 there is a passage sets up an interesting contrast between two types of men. What is this contrast, and how is it likely to shape the...

Chapter 9 of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet
Letter is titled “The Leech.” This title tells the reader a lot about the primary
antagonist in the novel, Roger Chillingworth. As a leech lives by feeding off the blood of
another, Chillingworth, under the guise of a physician, is going to devote his life to secretly
undermining and torturing Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale.

Hawthorne’s
intent, however, is not immediately evident. Most of the chapter discusses the budding
relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. It sounds like they will grow to be good
friends who have a positive effect on each other. In fact, Dimmesdale appreciates Chillingworth’s
intelligence and education:

"There was a fascination for the
minister in the company of the man of science, in whom he recognized an intellectual cultivation
of no moderate depth or scope, together with a range and freedom of ideas that he would have
vainly looked for among the members of his own profession."

In other
words, Dimmesdale is able to discuss ideas with Chillingworth that he can’t discuss with others
in the clergy.

Then, in the next paragraph, Hawthorne describes
Chillingworth, in his role as Dimmesdale’s doctor, this way:

"So
Roger Chillingworth—the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician—strove to go deep into his
patient’s bosom, delving among his principles prying into his recollections and probing
everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure-seeker in a dark
cavern."

It is at the end of the chapter that Hawthorne fully
develops the contrast between the two men that will continue throughout the rest of the novel. A
number of the townspeople began to suspect false motives on Chillingworth’s
part:

". . . it grew to be a widely diffused opinion that the
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages of especial sanctity, in all ages of the
Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself, or Satan’s emissary, in the guise of old
Roger Chillingworth."

Here we see that the public perception of
Chillingworth is intuitively on target--they can see through him as Dimmesdale does not.
Conversely, and this illustrates the contrast between the two, Dimmesdale is nearly idolized by
his parishioners:

"The young divine [Dimmesdale], whose scholar-like
renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a
heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to
do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for
the infancy of the Christian faith."

The final sentence of the
chapter clearly lays out the conflict that will unfold over the next 14
chapters:

"Alas! to judge from the gloom and terror in the depths of
the poor minister’s eyes, the battle was a sore one, and the victory anything but
secure."

Hawthorne here is saying that Dimmesdale’s battle against
the guilt that is eating him alive, spurred on by the physical and mental warfare secretly being
waged by Chillingworth, is no sure thing—he might not win. In fact, he only partly wins the
battle. He does find redemption at the end of the story, but it is only as he succumbs to death,
leaving Hester and his daughter Pearl behind to face the world without
him.