Yosemite Sam enrolls in a new school. He tries to participate in the same activities as the other students in his class do. He does not enjoy most of these activities. His sole intention is to impress them so that they start liking him.  Which of the following would best explain Yosemite’s behavior in this scenario?

The big five factors of personality are Openness to new experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, __________, and Neuroticism.

Depression includes symptoms from three major areas, including emotional symptoms, cognitive symptoms, and  vegetative symptoms.

According to Lyubomirsky, and our ANNOUNCEMENT REPLY ASSIGNMENT on Kindness, which of the following effects does engaging in altruistic behavior (ie. acts of kindness) have on one’s well-being?

The myth ends with Neptune transforming Cygnus: “Neptune’s word had breathed in off the ocean / And carried away Cygnus / On white wings, their each wingstroke / Yelping strangely — a bird with a long / Undulating neck and a bruised beak / Aimed at a land far beyond the horizon.” Which specific detail in the transformed bird most directly connects to the violence Achilles inflicted on Cygnus’s face?

After raping Philomela, the text describes her reaction using two animal similes:  “she crouched in a heap, shuddering / Like a lamb still clinging to life / After the wolf has savaged it / And for some reason dropped it. / Or like a dove, a bloody rag, still alive / Under the talons that stand on it.” What is the primary effect of placing two similes here rather than one?

Hughes describes Echo as one who “cannot be silent / When another speaks” but “cannot / Speak at all / Unless another has spoken.” When Echo falls in love with Narcissus, she must wait “For some other to speak / So she could snatch their last words / With whatever sense they might lend her.” What does Echo’s condition primarily reveal about the nature of desire in the myth?

After his daughter’s shape-shifting fails to satisfy his hunger, the text concludes: “He began to savage his own limbs. / And there, at a final feast, devoured himself.” What does this ending most powerfully reveal about the logic of Ceres’s punishment?  

The barber who discovers Midas’s secret whispers into a hole in the ground, and reeds grow there that “betrayed the barber’s confidence, / Broadcasting the buried secret. / Hissing to all who happened to be passing: / ‘Ass’s ears! Midas has ass’s ears!'” What does this episode suggest about power, secrecy, and truth?

When Juno transforms Callisto into a bear, the text observes: “Yet her mind was unaltered. Her lament / Was the roar of a bear — but her grief was human. / And though they were a bear’s forepaws / That she raked at heaven’s face with, / Her despair over Jove’s ingratitude… was a girl’s.” How does this detail most directly shape the reader’s understanding of Callisto’s punishment?