What is "Love's Last Lesson" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon about?

To understand the poem "Love's Last Lesson," it is useful to know something about its author, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who usually published her poetry using only her initials L.E.L. She was a precocious child and published her first poems when she was still a teen. For the era in which she lived, her personal life was quite scandalous. She had numerous affairs, and even gave birth to several children that she gave up to adoption. She died at the age of 36 holding a bottle of prussic acid, a poison which she may have been taking in diluted form as a medical remedy for an ongoing malady.
"Love's Last Lesson" is a poem about unrequited love. The narrator relates that she fell deeply in love with a man and she hoped that he loved her too. If she had "been mistress of the starry worlds" she would have given them all to him. However, the man said that he did not love her. He was, she writes, caught up in ambition, pride, and power, and didn't care "what lovely flowers might perish in his path."
At the beginning of the poem, the narrator longs for forgetfulness, but the wounds of her rejected love and crushed hopes are too deep. Her love is not casual like "light summer love," but it is deeper and more intense. Only in death can she be relieved of her pain.
The last stanza sums up the conclusion she has come to. She writes that a man's dreams of pride and power and a woman's dreams of love are both vain. In the end, when they die, their hopes have already died long before.

"Love's Last Lesson" seems to be about the deep love that a woman (the speaker) holds for a person as yet unnamed. So much of the poem is steeped in her love for the unnamed person that she says, early on, "there is a home of quiet for the wretched," meaning "the grave"—she pines for this person so much that she longs to be dead and put out of her misery.
The woman, who seems to be writing a letter to her beloved, wishes to have "forgetfulness." The speaker wants to completely erase all thoughts of her beloved. But the same speaker goes on to call the object of her affection "my god on Earth." So, obviously, the speaker is not likely to feel forgetfulness any time soon.
To the speaker "each look was counted as a prize" from her beloved, and she suffers when her object of affection does not return her feelings, claiming the only rest she will have is "in the grave."
In the second stanza, the speaker switches to a third-person narrator who portrays the crisis of the woman. The woman questions why she should care at all. She wishes she could simply forget the object of her love. She has only "cold words and scorn and slight" from the person she loves. She is miserable.
In the third stanza, the woman talks about the "red lava stream" that is her unrequited love for the person the poem is referring to. The woman feels the red-hot emotions of love, while the object of her affections seems cold.
The fourth stanza discusses "hopes that lie mute in their own sullenness," meaning that, though she may feel love for her object of affection, she will remain silent.
In the fifth stanza, the woman speaks of "woman's wretchedness" and seems ashamed to feel the way she does. She has love for someone but feels like it makes her weak.
In the sixth stanza, the woman asks how she has come to be in this place, when the object of her affection has shown her that the love is unrequited.
The seventh stanza has the woman questioning all love. She believes that all love must be false because she felt so deeply about the person she loved.
In the eighth and final stanza, the speaker seems to come to the realization that, regardless of how she has suffered in her unrequited love for the other, "the grave closes over those whose hopes have lain there long before."

How does Dickens present places within A Christmas Carol?

Dickens tends to present places with a wealth of visual imagery. Imagery refers to language that describes sensory experience. Take, for example, the following description of Victorian London:

The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already—it had not been light all day—and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.

Here, we get a clear visual mental picture of a dark afternoon, candles burning in the windows, smudged by dirty windowpanes. The air is thick with fog (and possible pollution—it is "brown" and seemingly "palpable"), making it difficult to see even as far as across the street. This darkened and murky setting really helps to establish the mood of this chapter of the text.
The description of Scrooge's home also reflects on him as well. The narrator says,

The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands. The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.

Again, the visual imagery contained in this description of this place creates a clear mental picture and is characteristic of Dickens.

How has Candida proved that Morell is weaker than Eugene?

In the play, the title character Candida is married to James Morell, an intellectual and social reformer. They love each other but James takes her for granted. Eugene Marchbanks is a younger poet who has a crush on her. Believing it is true love, he tries to convince Candida that she would be happier with him and that she should leave James.
In act 3, when the two men argue, James tells Candida that Eugene has claimed that she belongs to him, and he says she must choose between them. This does not go over well, and she speaks harshly to James about the "belongs to" idea, suggesting they sound like they are putting her up for auction.
James, already self-conscious that he can't match Eugene's poetic way with words, realizes he has totally blown it and starts to cry. That brings out Candida's affection, but she still presses him for his "bid."
James offers her, among other things, his honesty and strength, while James offers her his weakness. When she says she picks "the weaker of the two," James initially thinks she means Eugene. But she means James because he has shown that he really needs her.

Who was Elias Hoseaseon in Kidnapped?

Kidnapped, an 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of a teenaged orphan and his adventure to gain his inheritance, help and be helped by Jacobite rebels, and stay alive. A notable opponent of all these goals is one of the book's antagonists, Captain Elias Hoseaseon of a ship named the Covenant.
As the name of his ship suggests, the Captain is said to be a religious man, though he is incredibly selfish and greedy. He is sold our protagonist, David, by David's uncle, who has asked Hoseaseon to sell David into slavery so that he can't claim his inheritance. Hoseaseon complies with this without much thought or moral difficulty.
Despite Hoseaseon's cruel intentions for David, David still manages to see his humanity in the way that Hoseaseon truly loves to sail and loves his ship, the Covenant. While this reveals David's ability to empathize with others, and Hoseaseon's more complicated nature, it hardly compensates for his actions, which include not only trying to sell David into slavery, but also his passiveness in the murder of Ransome and Hoseaseon's conspiring to murder Alan.

Why was it so important for Saroo to remember things about his Indian village and life

A Long Way Home, a 2013 memoir, tells the story of author Saroo Brierley, who became lost and separated from his family in India as a young boy. After being adopted and raised by an Australian family, Saroo, now an adult, struggles for a sense of identity as an Indian Australian with two different families and so many unanswered questions.
It is this search for identity that makes Saroo become obsessive about remembering the details of his family and his village. Since he was hardly older than a toddler when he was separated from them, his memories are few in number. It is also important that Saroo remember any notable landmarks or features of his village, as these will help him locate it and reunite with his lost family. Remembering details of the village, and his life there, is the only way for Saroo to find his family and move forward with his life.

What are the major impacts of the Fifth Amendment on federal and state criminal trials?

The Fifth Amendment had many repercussions on federal and state law. It outlines many exceptions and situations that fall into grey areas under other legislation and what steps should be taken in those cases. Two of the biggest impacts it created were the Grand Jury and the concept of Double Jeopardy.
The Grand Jury is a group of citizens that can come together and determine if criminal charges are necessary for something and request additional legal action, such as subpoenas. This gives the individual citizens a bit more power when it comes to criminal prosecution.
The second impact it had was the idea of Double Jeopardy. This is the legal provision that you cannot be charged twice for the same crime, so if you are exonerated of criminal action once, you cannot then be tried again.

What was the full name of the political party Hitler joined in 1919?

Adolph Hitler joined the German Workers's party in 1919, but he initially played a fairly small role in it, as other men were more prominent at that time. In 1920, the party was renamed as the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party.
The founder of the party was Anton Drexler. Drexler, a locksmith, was a nationalist and an antisemite. Drexler believed that Jews, Bolsheviks, and other traitors were responsible for Germany's defeat in World War I. Drexler was a poor speaker, and party membership never exceeded a few dozen in its first year.
Drexler was impressed by Hitler's speaking ability. It was Hitler's oratorical skills that enabled him to rise in the party, and he became chairman in 1921. Hitler's ascent in the party was also helped by Ernst Röhm, leader of the Nazi shock troops.
Hitler quickly secured control of the Nazi party. Drexler died in obscurity in 1942, and Röhm was executed under Hitler's direction in 1934.