Describe how Tintern Abbey reflects characteristics of romanticism.

Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" is Romantic in the way it links nature to holiness and moral goodness. Being in nature elevates the poet. For instance, Wordsworth calls the woods and meadows that he sees around Tintern Abbey:

The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being

In his long autobiographical poem "The Prelude," Wordsworth discusses feeling that poetry is a holy calling, and often invokes Milton as a mentor. After his disillusion and depression at the way the French Revolution turned into a bloodbath, Wordsworth returned to the Lake District. There, he came to believe he could make a difference by writing poems that revealed God's presence in nature as well as the goodness of the simple life. In Tintern Abbey, he dwells on the way seemingly small things, such as kind acts or the pleasure derived from being in nature, can have a deep influence ("no trivial influence") on our souls. As he writes:

feelings tooOf unremembered pleasures; such, perhaps,As have made no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life;His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

The role of memory was also important to Wordsworth as a Romantic poet, and he highlights memory from the start of this poem, noting that it has been five years since he last visited Tintern Abbey. In "The Prelude," Wordsworth discusses how returning to the same places in nature as we get older helps us to understand the changes in ourselves. As we mark the changes in how we react to the same spot, we gain self understanding. In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth notes that he was more passionate as a younger self:

I cannot paint
What then I was.
The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion

Now, however, in the same place, he realizes he has become more spiritual:

For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
. . . And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts

Wordsworth, the emblem of the Romantic poet, in this poem expresses his strong faith in three Romantic themes: the holy, redemptive qualities of nature, simple living, and memory.

"Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," by William Wordsworth, is sometimes considered the archetypal Romantic poem for a number of reasons. Essentially, in this poem, Wordsworth is discussing the "aspect most sublime" that is revealed to him by the natural setting of Tintern Abbey, whose beauty has lived in his memory for five years since he was last there. In his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth stated that poetry arises from "emotion recollected in tranquility," and we see this at work in this poem, as the poet describes how the "tranquil" beauty of Tintern Abbey gives him strength and inspiration when he is not there. Both of these are tenets of Romantic poetry that show the influence of Edmund Burke's ideas on the sublime which appear in most Romantic works. Wordsworth states that

I have owed to them [the views of Tintern Abbey],
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind

On the most basic level, there are two key Romantic traits exhibited in this poem:
1. It focuses on Nature and the power of Nature to inspire the muse
2. It focuses on individualism and the impact a particular place or feeling may have on one person.

What are examples of classism in "The Beggar Maid"?

Rose lives with her stepmother, Flo, and her father in a poor part of a poor town. Despite her humble background, Rose aspires to better things. She's well-read and highly intelligent, and she manages to obtain a scholarship to college. While there, she plays up to the snobbery of her middle-class friends by regaling them with stories of growing up poor. Yet despite her background Rose doesn't see herself as working-class; in fact, she explicitly says that she'd never heard of the working class before she came to Dr. Henshawe's. At home, Flo comments acidly on the fact that theirs is the last part of town to have sewers installed:

"Of course," Rose said coolly. "This is the working-class part of town."
"Working class?" said Flo. "Not if the ones around here can help it."

Though Rose and Flo live in a rundown part of town, they still consider themselves superior to their neighbors. For one thing, they're intelligent and learned; they actually read books. They also work, and as Flo's comment strongly implies, many of their neighbors don't know the meaning of the word.

What factors contributed to the economic conflict and social unrest of the 1890s?

The economic and social crises of the 1890s, particularly the Panic of 1893, had their origins in a number of events and conditions that shook the public's confidence in the political and social institutions of the United States.
The economic downturn likely had its origin in the failure of the Reading Railroad Company. When Reading Railroad collapsed and went into receivership in 1893, the banks that were relying on their loans to the company found themselves in a tough spot. A number of other major railroad companies would also collapse that year, spooking many more investors. Many worried European investors responded by pulling their investments from the country which led to a full-blown economic panic. This all led to vast uncertainty in the U.S. economy which meant that fewer employers were hiring workers as they waited to see how the dust settled.
To make matters worse, a series of bad agricultural harvests in the southern and western United States led to food cost increases across the country. This put a further strain on many household budgets.
Another factor that should be considered was the dwindling federal gold reserves. With the gold standard falling, and the government's seeming inability to rectify it, people all over the country began losing faith in the government's ability to avert an even greater economic crisis.
All this was coupled with social unease about changing societal conditions in the United States. More immigrants than ever were coming to the country. There was a major demographic shift as people moved to cities from the countryside. People were experiencing the rapid industrialization of the economy. All this led to a large amount of uncertainty which resulted in unrest throughout the course of the decade.
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/dep1893.htm

The 1890s was a time of great wealth and opportunity in the United States. But it was also a time of exploitation, poverty, and a widening gap between rich and poor. Many of those immigrants who came to America in search of a better life for themselves and their families quickly became disillusioned by the squalor, overcrowding, and appalling working conditions of life in the big city. It seemed that, no matter how hard most poor people and immigrants worked, they remained firmly stuck at the bottom of the ladder. To many, the promise of the American Dream seemed nothing but a mirage.
Yet at the same time, the richest members of society grew even richer during this so-called Gilded Age. This was one of the factors that led to the formation of labor unions as a way of obtaining a fair deal for working men and women (and children, as child labor was still largely unregulated at this time). Self-styled progressives also got involved, campaigning for wholesale changes in how the economy was run. But as the wealthy and their political representatives were reluctant to give way, conflict inevitably arose, manifesting itself in increasingly bitter industrial disputes between management and labor.

The 1890s were a turbulent decade in many countries, but this answer will focus on the United States, which witnessed particularly acute social, political, and economic turmoil. There were many reasons for this. The decade witnessed rapid industrial expansion, an enormous wave of immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, the consolidation of American businesses into enormous monopolies, an imperialistic war with Spain, and the expansion of Jim Crow laws in the South. But probably the most important source of economic conflict and social unrest was the terrible economic crisis that afflicted the world in the 1890s. Beginning with the Panic of 1893, when banks across the United States failed in record numbers, the economic crisis continued for much of the decade. As many Americans lost their jobs, the crisis widened the already yawning gap between the rich and the poor and exacerbated social conflict. For example, the bloody strike that broke out at the Pullman train car plant and spread throughout the Northeast began when management cut wages in the midst of the economic downturn. Many more Americans embraced radical politics, including socialism (like American Railway Union leader Eugene Debs) and anarchism, represented by popular speaker Emma Goldman. Economic crisis was also at the heart of the so-called "farmers revolt" led by the Populists, who won many local offices and even a few at the state levels. Above all, the crisis of the 1890s revealed to many Americans that rapid industrial and economic growth carried enormous risks. 
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h792.html

Why does Jerry keep his feat from his mother in "Through the Tunnel"?

Jerry does not tell his mother about the feat he has accomplished—swimming all the way through the underwater tunnel through the rock—because he understands it would make his mother very worried about him. He recognizes the somewhat difficult position she is in (as the single mother of a growing son), and he understands her ambivalence about giving him increased independence.  Early in the story, Jerry can tell that his mother is thinking through what he may or may not want to do and whether he might want to go to the beach alone, without her.

She frowned, conscientiously worrying over what amusements he might secretly be longing for, which she had been too busy or too careless to imagine. He was very familiar with that anxious, apologetic smile. Contrition sent him running after her.

Jerry knows his mother feels anxiety over him, and he has no wish to add her to worry; in fact, he seems to feel an obligation to soothe and assure her. Telling her about the tunnel would only make her worry more.

What are the decisions the poet has made about form? How do these decisions affect meaning?

Margaret Atwood, in her poem "Siren Song," chose to write in free verse, using short stanzas of three lines each. The most interesting effect of this is that each of the nine stanzas does not so much contain an idea as present half of an idea, with the enjambment between the stanzas serving to keep the reader in suspense and encourage us to pay attention to the content of the poem. The punctuation at the end of the first stanza, for example, seems to echo the conversational tone of the poem in that it represents an indrawn breath: a colon introducing a new idea, a longed-for answer, which we must continue to the next stanza to hear.
The isolated stanzas create the impression that the speaker is feeding her ideas in small pieces, the poem itself a lure and a siren song. Consider this stanza:

I will tell the secret to you,to you, only to you.Come closer. This song

These lines seem to draw the reader in, as if the speaker is beckoning ("come closer"), and the abrupt break in the sentence at the end of the final line has the reader leaning closer still, hurrying onto the next stanza. The final stanza, which reveals the secret of the "boring song" which "works every time," pulls the reader up short; finally we understand that the siren has been working her magic on us after all, demonstrating, rather than explaining, the "secret" of how she uses her "cry for help" to make each listener feel "unique."

How does Napoleon avoid getting caught in his contradictions?

Throughout the novel, Napoleon routinely contradicts himself by saying and acting in opposing ways. To prevent himself from being caught, he employs some propaganda and Squealer to make it look like he has not contradicted himself at all.
To see an example of this, take a look at Chapter Six and the controversy surrounding Napoleon's decision to never engage in trade with humans. Instead of admitting that he has changed his mind about trading, Napoleon, first of all, gets the sheep to start bleating so as to silence the other animals. Later, he sends Squealer out to explain that the animals are suffering from a faulty memory: Napoleon never said that he would not trade with humans.
Time and time again, we find Napoleon covering up his contradictory behavior through propaganda, like Squealer's persuasive rhetoric, designed to make the animals doubt their memories.

How is the language and stereotypes in this novel too much for a young adult to handle?

That the language and stereotypes in this graphic novel are too much to handle is debatable, as it is unclear what "too much to handle" actually means. The graphic novel is definitely direct about Asian stereotypes as well as Caucasian stereotypes, and for a young adult who doesn't understand stereotypes, these concepts might be difficult to grasp. As well, a young adult who can relate to the book because he or she has experienced being stereotyped like any of the characters in the novel are being stereotyped, might feel pain or shame while reading or discussing the book in class. Stereotypes are painful because they reduce individuals to an incomplete list of identifiers and cause a lot of misunderstanding, so that could definitely be a lot to handle. Thirdly, clumsy treatment of the language and the stereotypes in a classroom setting could actually teach a young adult how to hurt someone else, which might discourage a teacher from using the book in class for fear of it being too much for some students with latent tendencies towards meanness.