• THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

What possible themes may be developed in a comparative analysis of “Medea” by Euripides and “The…

I think that one potential discussion point between both works might be how unlimited self- indulgence can be dangerous. Both Medea and Dorian Gray engage in an extreme level of self- indulgence….

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• THE DEAD

Comment on the change inside the protagonist of “The Dead.”

Clearly, in this great short story by James Joyce, the protagonist is Gabriel. He, like all of Joyce’s characters in his collection of short stories, Dubliners, experiences an epiphany at the end…

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• HAMLET

For the following quotations, give an explication of the lines, focusing on the ways in which the…

Editors are only permitted to answer one question at a time. You have asked multiple questions. Since I like your second quote, I will answer only that one. In this very pithy statement, Hamlet…

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• PARADISE LOST

In Paradise Lost, Satan is approaching Earth. What kind of world order is described?

I have just spent a rather frustrating fifteen minutes trying to find the section that you refer to according to your line references, but cannot, so I assume you are referring to the end of Book…

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• HISTORY

Were the grievances of the 3rd Estate (prior to the French Revolution) valid? Why or why not?

The grievances of the Third Estate were definitely valid. This is because the Third Estate did not have the political power it deserved and it carried more of the economic burden than it should…

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• THE CRUCIBLE

How does Arthur Miller use characterization to develop or advance the theme of “false accusation”…

Miller makes it clear that people are willing to lie and falsely accuse their neighbors to gain some benefit from doing so, or to exact revenge. The best example is Abigail, who decides to falsely…

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• HISTORY

Other than being sent as convicts, what pull factors drew many Irish migrants to Australia?

First of all, please note that being sent somewhere as a convict is not a pull factor. That is, instead, a push factor. It is a reason to leave one’s home country as opposed to a reason to come…

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• THE TIME MACHINE

Why does H.G. Wells identify most of the characters in The Time Machine by title rather than name?

H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine – like most science fiction – is more diagnosis than prognosis. In his novella Wells offers a critique of the capitalist structure of the Victorian society in which he…

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• ESSAY LAB

What is the difference between culture & civilization?

I had to whittle your question down. Civilization can be used to represent a broad concept of culture, but there are differences. Civilization can refer to the process and effect of urbanization,…

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• LITERATURE

What are some concepts found in the psychological approaches to studying literature, and include…

Although psychological approaches to literature have been encouraged by Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, they have always existed. Aristotle’s description of the catharsis (literally “purification”)…

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• EVELINE

What are the functions of the modernist open ending in “Eveline” and “The Dead” by James Joyce?…

In James Joyce’s The Dubliners, the epiphanies of the characters are defined until after the story, “Araby.” After this story of adolescent awareness, the insights are left to the readers to…

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• POETRY

Who (3) are included among the “metaphysical and devotional poets’ of the 17th century and why?

The Metaphysical poets wrote during the 17th century. Their poetry focused upon the metaphysical (abstract thought) and the investigation of abstract thought. For them, their works tended to focus…

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• GRAMMAR

Inverted word order, unclear pronouns, and variable spellings are characteristic of what type of…

Some English dialects can be said to have inverted word order, unclear pronouns, and nonstandard, or variable, spellings, but your question goes beyond this in asking whether this is true of the…

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• SCIENCE

what are the names of the joints in our bodies,their locations and their functions??

We have different types of joints in our body. All joints have different functions. Our range of motion is due to our joints. There are 360 total joints in the human body. A joint holds together…

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• ROLAND BARTHES

Bring out the main ideas in Roland Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author.”

In his influential essay “The Death of the Author”, Barthes challenges criticism that aims to reconstruct the author’s intentions when writing literature. In this way, Barthes claims, we pursue the…

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• ENLIGHTENMENT

How did Enlightenment thought become so influential?

There can be many approaches in answering this question. I would say that one of the reasons that the Enlightenment was so important was because that it was so rooted in science and scientific…

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• LINGUISTICS

When did Anglo-Saxon English change to Middle English?

Of course, the change from Old English to Middle English did not occur all at once. So there is no one date on which Old English died and Middle English began. The best we can say is that Middle…

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• LITERATURE

The formal, structural, exponential, linguistic and ‘close reading’ approaches. What are the…

In Literary studies you can consider three approaches, intrinsically concerned with the text: the Russian formalism, the New Criticism and Structuralism. The Russian Formalists were a group of…

• A PASSAGE TO INDIA

Does the action in the Marabar caves in A Passage to India show Forster’s embrace of Indian…

I am not sure if there can be a definitive answer given to this question. Much of it is going to depend on how an individual perceives Forster’s writing, the mystery of the caves, and the…

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• EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

How could technology be used in a classroom using the educational approaches proposed by Vygotsky?

Vygotsky’s theory of social interaction states that cognitive development will be optimal through student interaction, and students learning from each other. In the 21st century the technology is…

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• MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA

What is the significance of title the ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’?

The title works on two different levels; on an aural level, O’Neill makes it sound like the title refers to a positive rebirth and transformation. One could think of the image of “morning” becoming…

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• MACBETH

What is the symbolic or thematic relevance of the witches in Act 1 Scene 1 in Macbeth?

Opening the play with the witches creates a foreboding atmosphere and their chant, “foul is fair and fair is foul” indicates that what was good will become bad; someone will be corrupted….

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• BEOWULF

What are some similarities between Grendel and Beowulf?I’m writing a research paper for my…

This is an interesting idea to think about. In part, Beowulfis the story of an epic hero who defeats the marauding monster, Grendel. As you note in your explanation, the hero has very little in…

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• BUSINESS

What are the major functions of a supervisor in the manufacturing industry?

There will be different ways to describe various roles played by a supervisor and there will be differing opinions (from text to text) as to which of these functions are “major.” The link below,…

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• THE EGG

what is the plot in the egg story

story of the egg protagonist father antagonist the egg or mother setting small town in Ohio point of view the son exposition life on the farm and then we are introduced to father and then the son…

• ROBERT FROST

Discuss the poem “Fireflies in the Garden” by Robert Frost.

It can be interpreted in multiple ways. On the surface, it’s just about how fireflies resemble stars: from a distance, stars appear to be no more than tiny pulses of light. Going deeper, the poem…

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• THE MIRACLE WORKER

In The Miracle Worker, how do the Kellers prevent or hinder Helen’s learning?

It is clear that throughout this moving and poignant play, Annie does not just have to battle with Helen herself, but also with Helen’s parents and their way of coping with Helen’s disabilities….

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• SCIENCE

Discuss the impact of culture on the perception of pain.

Pain in its psychological and physical forms is characterized by an onset of a specific situation that disrupts the natural order of things. In the case of psychological pain such as grief and…

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• SCIENCE

What is the importance of REM (rapid-eye-movement) in sleep?

Rapid Eye movement is a stage within the rest period (our sleep) in which our eyes reportedly move in a way that is described as “saccadic”. The result of the saccadic movement of the eyes is that…

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• WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O.

In “Why I Live at the P.O.” why is the character of the sister funny?

I assume that your question refers to the narrator of this excellent and amusing story, rather than Stella-Rondo, who is the sister of the narrator, and is referred to as “Sister.” It is important…

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• LITERATURE

What are the types of novels?Categories

The word genre is most often used to categorize different types of novels. The easiest way to list the different genres of novels is to think about how books are organized in a bookstore. First,…

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• A POISON TREE

In the poem “A Poison Tree” by William Blake, what does the tree represent?

This excellent poem by William Blake concerns anger that is allowed to grow and fester and also the way that we often nurture and hold such anger close to our hearts, refusing to resolve or express…

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• POLITICAL SCIENCE

Some argue that less politically homogeneous districts might result in diverse elections. Do you…

No. This would actually be a good thing. When districts are too homogeneous in terms of politics, it leads to the election of representatives who are extremists rather than to the election of…

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• ARTS

I need to write a conclusion for an essay subject “Flower Symbolism in Visual Arts” Does anyone…

It’s hard to offer ideas of a conclusion without knowing what your essay is specifically about. I Know that it is about flowers as symbols in the visual arts but it depends on context. For…

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• BUSINESS

Apart from scarcity, are there other principal issues in economics that remain the same. Kindly…

Economists say that every economy must answer three basic and fundamental questions. (The Drexel.edu link below has 4. Textbooks I’ve taught from have 3. The second and third questions in the…

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• HAMLET

I need to write an obituary for Polonius in Hamlet and I am having a hard time with this. Can…

If I were to have this assignment relating to Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, I might first look at a real obituary to get the essence of the material usually included. However, I might write something…

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• EVELINE

Why is Eveline’s job at the store mentioned? “Eveline” from The Dubliners by James Joyce

James Joyce’s story “Eveline” is one that presents the conditions of many Irish women’s lives. As a further insight into the plight of Irish women, much of the narrative of is told from the…

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• MATH

Solve the system of equations: 2x – 5y + 3z = -1 x + 4y – 2z = 9 x – 2y – 4z = -5

We have to solve the following equations by elimination 2x-5y+3z=-1 …(1) x+4y-2z=9 …(2) x-2y-4z=-5 …(3) Let’s eliminate x and create 2 equations with y and z. (2) – (3) => 4y – 2z + 2y +…

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• MATH

How can the line passing through the points (3,5) and (1,4) be written in the slope intercept form?

The equation of a line passing through the points (x1, y1) and (x2 , y2) is given by (y – y1) = [(y2 – y1)/(x2 – x1)]*(x – x1) Here we have x1 = 3, x2 = 1 , y1 = 5 and y2 = 4. Substituting the…

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• MATH

Solve the following equations: 7x-4y=-10 and 4y=x-2.

We have to solve the simultaneous equations 7x-4y=-10 …(1) 4y=x-2…(2) add (2) and (1) => 7x – 4y + 4y = -10 + x – 2 => 7x = -12 + x => 6x = -12 => x = -2 Substitute this in (2)…

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• MATH

Solve : 5(u-5) + 10 = 12u + 3(u+5)

We have to solve the equation: 5(u-5)+10=12u+3(u+5) First open the brackets 5(u-5)+10=12u+3(u+5) => 5u – 25 + 10 = 12u + 3u + 15 bring the terms with u to one side and the numeric terms to the…

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• MATH

Where the “quadratic formula” come from?

The quadratic formula gives us the solution to the equation of the form ax^2+bx+c = 0. The solution to the equation is x1 andx2 given by: x1 = {-b+(b^2-4ac)^(1/2)}/2. x2 = {-b-(b^2-4ac)^(1/2)}/2….

• ESSAY LAB

I need to have a good Op-Ed story and I can’t think of anything to write. Can someone Please help…

So you need something to write about — something you can give an opinion on? Well, there’s lots of stuff going on in the world right now. The big news lately is the shooting of the…

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• TRIFLES

Please give a definition of “Trifles” and how is it related to the events or characters in the…

It is always interesting to consider where the title of plays, short stories or novels comes from. Often, the title is mentioned in the play and examining the context of where it is mentioned can…

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• SOCIAL SCIENCES

What are the effects of the political and economic failure of globalization in the context of…

Globalization has reached certain populations on the continent of Africa, while other populations remain marginalized in the global political and financial economy. Thus, some people do not have…

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• THINGS FALL APART

What role do women of Umuofia have in the decision on what to do about the murder of a woman from…

In Chapter 2 of Things Fall Apart, the women of Umuofia have little influence in deciding the murder case of an Umuofian woman. In fact, the arrangement is an entirely male enterprise, and the…

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• 1984

What are Physical Jerks and Doublethink and why are they used?

The Physical Jerks are a series of exercise routines required for members of the Outer Party. The telescreen monitors each individual’s participation and criticizes them by name if they are not…

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• MATH

How many bit strings of length 10 have a) Exactly three 0’s? b) The same number of 0’s as…

1. a) 000 b)0101 .. hence exactly the same 0’s and one’s

• CINEMA

Race to NowhereWhat are the opinions out there about the movie “Road to Nowhere?” I have watched…

I think it’s actually Race to Nowhere. Personally, I have mixed feelings. I think it is a conversation that has to be had. I also think that we have to be careful about being inflammatory,…

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• THE ODYSSEY

In setting up the test of the bow for the suitors, how is Penelope really saying that she is…

The test of the bow and the axes comes in Book 21 of this epic of world literature. Penelope, pushed to finally create some form of test to resolve the impasse concerning her situation with the…