In All Quiet on the Western Front, what dreams do the various members of the group have about going home?

The men's dreams of going home seem to vary based on their age
and experience.  For example, Detering who is one of the older men in the group has left behind
his wife and his farm which he talks about constantly.  He dreams of going home to resume the
beloved lifestyle that he left behind. Kat, another older soldier, also wants to go home to his
family.  These dreams of returning to lives left behind motivate the older men to struggle on
through the battles of the war.  However, the younger soldiers do not have these ties to home,
and so they at first dream of returning beloved soldiers.  But as time goes on, they feel like
they have less and less to live for, and their dreams of home become more like nightmares.  Paul
feels distanced from his family, and his dreams of going home are hopeless as he realizes that he
will likely not be able to fit back into the standards of society.  The younger men are much more
disillusioned by what they experience in the war.

In Animal Farm, why is Boxer strong?Anybody Please help!

To find the answer to this question you need go no further
than the first chapter and the part when Boxer and Clover are introduced. This clearly
presents us with a good image of Boxer as a horse and also gives us other details about
his characteristics:

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The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in
together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care
lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw... Boxer was an enormous
beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put
together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in
fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his
steadiness of character and tremendous powers of
work.

Note how the
description given of Boxer emphasises his strength and size. His hoofs are described as
"vast" and he himself is described as an "enormous beast" and possessing great strength
- in fact double that of most horses. His capabilities of work are likewise described as
"tremendous". Clearly Orwell presents Boxer as a very strong horse who is able to work
incredibly hard. Of course, it is important not to forget his limitation - his lack
of intelligence, which is a key factor that is exploited by the pigs in their tyrannical
rise to power.

Would it eliminate iron triangles if we prohibit agencies from testifying before Congress?AMERICAN GOVENMENT 2

It would do not good to prohibit agencies from testifying
before Congress.  As long as the Congressional committees control the agencies' budgets,
the agencies will have to listen to what they say -- not testifying would make no
difference to that relationship.

One thing I can think of
would be to stop having the most interested committee oversee the agency and its
budget.  In other words, the Ag Committee, made up of farm state members, would need to
stop overseeing the Ag Department.  Then the members of the committee that oversaw the
USDA would not be so interested in trying to control
them.

But this really strikes me as being pretty
antidemocratic -- to prevent the people most affected by agriculture from having control
of the Department of Agriculture.  I think the only real way would be to have
countervailing pressures from other interest groups.  We would have to form interest
groups that were opposed to what the iron triangles
want.

For example, if the agriculture iron triangle wants
wasteful farm subsidies, we would need to have an interest group that would work hard to
lobby against those subsidies.  This would be the only really effective way of breaking
iron triangles -- to have different interest groups lobbying the way that pluralist
political theory says they should.

Why are the organelles in plant and animal cells different? Explain their respective functions.

Organelles are found in
Eukaryotic cells and are tiny structures inside cells that carry out different functions
to insure that homeostasis is maintained. In animals, the
centriole is present and is needed during mitotic division. It gives rise to the
spindle. Plant cells contain chloroplasts with the pigment
chlorophyll, among others. Chlorophyll can absorb the radiant energy from the sun and
with the presence of carbon dioxide and water, photosynthesis can occur. After the steps
of photolysis and carbon fixation, glucose is formed.
Plants can use this glucose as a food and energy source,
and they are producers or autotrophs. Another organelle found in plant
cells but not in animal cells is the non-living cell wall. It is composed
of cellulose, a polysaccharide. The cell wall provides support and a framework as well
as protection to the plant cell. These are the organelles
that differ between plant and animal cells.

In Maurice Kenny's "Legacy", what is the poem about?

The poem asserts its main article of faith—that the
speaker is united with nature and identical with it—through paradoxical and apparently
contradictory statements. Thus the speaker states that he is of course himself, but that
his face is the color of April rain, which would, in fact, make him literally invisible.
The idea here seems to be that he is part of an identity that is greater than he himself
can claim. So also is the idea that his limbs are his own, but they are also the same as
the limbs of birch trees. More notably, in lines 22–34 the speaker emphasizes that his
purpose in life is identical with the purpose of the meadow and the sky. Paradoxically,
they provide purpose for his daily existence, for they have given him birth. Also, it is
to the meadow and sky that he will eventually return.

How was Robert Frost's life reflected in his poetry?What where the personlity traits that where in his life and in his poetry?

Robert Frost’s life was
reflected in his poetry in a variety of ways.  For instance, from an early age, Frost
was raised in New England, and New England, of course, provides the setting and the
characters for many of his poems (such as “Out, Out---,” to mention just one example).
His education at Lawrence High School, where he was a strong student, helped give him
the kind of education and interest in literature that would nourish his later career. 
His first poems were published in Lawrence High’s Bulletin, and he eventually became
editor of that publication.  Thus, his experience at Lawrence helped contribute to his
growing ambitions and self-confidence as a writer.

Frost’s experience
working various low-paying jobs (such as millworker and teacher) helped give him an
intimate familiarity with the lower- and lower-middle-class society which is often the
subject of his poems. His bouts with depression (including a suicide attempt) helped
make him familiar with the darker side of human existence, which is also treated in his
poems.  His own frustrations in love, especially when courting his wife Elinor, helped
provide yet another subject for some of his best-known poems.

In 1897,
Frost was able to begin studying at Harvard, an experience which also helped prepare him
intellectually to become a serious poet.  However, he had to withdraw from Harvard after
two years, and it was now that he decided to become a chicken farmer, thus giving him
familiarity with rural life and with the lives of farmers – two more subjects of some of
his most significant poems.  One notable poem, for instance, is titled “The Pasture.”
Another is called “After Apple-Picking.” Another is titled “The Death of a Hired Man,”
while yet another is called “Mending Wall.”  Perhaps the most famous of these poems with
rural settings and characters is “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” in which even
the horse pulling the speaker’s cart or sled has a significant
role:

My
little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse
near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the
year.

Eventually Frost was
given a larger farm by his grandfather, and, when his grandfather died, Frost received
enough of an inheritance to allow him to devote more of his time and attention to his
writing. He even combined his interest in writing with his practical duties as a farmer
by contributing articles about chickens to poultry magazines. Later work as a teacher
kept Frost in touch, in a practical way, with the life of the mind, and eventually he
and his family were able to settle for a while in England.

During his
time in London, Frost became familiar with a number of other American writers, including
the highly influential poet Ezra Pound, who championed Frost’s first book. By the time
Frost returned to the United States in early 1915, he had begun to establish a
reputation as one of America’s most promising poets. 

In all the ways
just suggested, then (as well as many more too numerous to mention), Robert Frost’s life
clearly affected Robert Frost’s poetry.

Please write an explication of Basic Training by Sherman PearlI am having trouble with this. Thanks Basic TrainingI’d stand stiff as a rifle...

Sherman Pearl is a former journalist turned poet who has
achieved international acclaim for his work. This poem, "Basic Training," is a simple picture of
military life and structure which becomes much more intimate as the work progresses. All of the
rigors of transforming a man into a soldier are listed here: polishing boots to pass inspection,
making no excuses for anything, standing interminably at attention, doing menial and mindless
tasks, marching and finishing without falling or failing. Each of these tasks are designed to
make the man surrender self in order to become a soldier: 

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it was learning to surrender that made me [a]
soldier

This poem is addressed to the
soldier's son, and it becomes personal when he expresses his wish that his son could stand next
to him "on this barren parade ground." Years after his own basic training, the narrator
expresses his longing for that same experience of breaking and building for his son. What
made him a man would do the same for his
son.