Dealing with Rhode Island in the 1600’s as part of the thirteen colonies, what roles did men and…
- HISTORY
Dealing with Rhode Island in the 1600’s as part of the thirteen colonies, what roles did men and…
In general, sex roles in the colonies were very male-dominated. Women had very few legal rights. They were not allowed to own property on their own, for example. Men and women generally worked…
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- A SEPARATE PEACE
In Chapter 10 of A Separate Peace, why does the exposure of Leper’s deranged hallucinations bring…
Even though Gene and Leper argue and are rather violent with one another. Gene realizes through Leper’s admission of mental problems and failure in the military that Leper (and the other boys) are…
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- GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS
The main character in a story is also called-
The main character in a story is the protagonist. As readers we share the most empathy with this character. He/she is the one fighting for a cause in the story or movie. The antagonist, on the…
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- HISTORY
How did the Crusades increase European interest in trade?
The main way that the Crusades increased European interest in trade was by exposing them to more goods than they had previously known about trading for. When the Crusaders spent time in the Middle…
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- THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
How do the people at the masque feel before the Red Death arrives?
Before the masked figure arrives, the masquerade is basically the party of the century. The partygoers have anything they could want, and they celebrate accordingly. Poe notes “there were…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
What is a good thesis which discusses William Golding’s commentary on human nature in Lord of the…
Obviously, Golding does not have a very positive view of human nature as evidenced in his writing. Your thesis needs to address that and list the three supports from the novel that you plan to…
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- TWO KINDS
In Two Kinds, the mother immediately gives up on her goals for Jing Mei when . . .
After endless bouts both subtle and not so subtle the final blow to Jing Mei’s mother’s plans to make her a prodigy came following the piano recital. Despite all of the efforts to provide Jing Mei…
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- THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN’S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE…ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME
What does Greg Mortenson mean when he says the war on terrorism is a battle of “hearts and…
The idea that the war on terrorism is a war to win “hearts and minds” is a common saying in discussions of how to combat terrorism and guerrilla insurgencies in general. The idea is that what you…
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- YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN
In the “Young Goodman Brown” how does Goodman Brown react to his wife and others upon his return…
Young Goodman Brown reacts very coldly toward his wife and the people in his town after he’s returned from his strange trip into the woods. Why does he react strangely? He believes that he’s seen…
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- THE CRUCIBLE
In “The Crucible” what evidence has been given by the citizens of Salem to charge others with…
The “evidence” that the citizens of the town bring to the courts to accuse others of witchcraft is highly superstitious in nature, and based mostly on the hysterical actions of a group of girls….
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- DEATH IN VENICE
Why was Aschenbach considered an artist who has sacrificed his emotional life and distanced…
The artist Aschenbach, in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, has worked very hard to attain the credentials of a successful author, one who is respected and whose books are well received. In doing so,…
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- HISTORY
How did international political events combine with postwar domestic life in the U.S. to lead to…
I’m assuming you’re talking about the Red Scare after WWII and not the one after WWI. Some of the important international political events: The USSR taking over Eastern Europe and imposing…
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- TWO KINDS
At first in “Two Kinds,” what are Jing-mei’s mother’s ambitions for daughter motivated by?
Jing-mei’s mother escaped Communist China and wants everything for her daughter that she never experienced. She witnesses child prodigies such as Shirley Temple and believes that because she and…
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- THE PORTABLE PHONOGRAPH
What are the themes in the Portable Phonograph by Walter Van Tilburg Clark? How does it connects…
Some of what makes Clark’s short story so powerful is the theme of defining importance. The fact that the dwellers in the cave hold dear to them literature and artistic expression as few of the…
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- PERIODIC TABLE
What family is carbon in?plz help me!!!!!!!!!
The elements are divided into nine families: nonmetals, alkali metals, alkaline metals, transition metals, rare earth elements, noble gasses, metalloids, halogens, and other metals. Carbon belongs…
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- THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER
Did Widge ever steal ‘Hamlet’ in The Shakespeare Stealer?
Widge never did quite steal the play, although he came very close. He transcribed the whole play over two performances in Dr Bright’s ‘charactery’ but the notebook was stolen from him as he left…
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- THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
In “The Pit and the Pendulum” what are three different kinds of death the narrator almost faces,…
The first almost-death occurrence is when he stumbles in his dark prison, and comes right up against the vast pit that is in the middle. He is lucky in this; he was wandering around blindly and…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
Who holds the position for majority leader in the House and Senate today?I need to know who holds…
First of all, it is important to know that the majority leaders in the House and Senate are not identical in terms of the power they have. The majority leader in the Senate is, arguably, the most…
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- SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD
What kind of imagery does Jonathan Edwards use in his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an angry God”?
In general, Jonathan Edwards uses very angry imagery in his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” The most famous image used is that of a “loathsome insect.” He says that God looks at…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
The initials WPA stand for “Works Progress Administration.” The WPA was a program started up by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his “New Deal” to try to end the Great Depression. The WPA was…
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- REFERENCE
How do computers create employment?I want to know the jobs computers have created.
Computers have created many different types of jobs. First of all, you have the people who are actually manufacturing the computers and the chips and all the other parts that make up a computer….
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- THE MONKEY’S PAW
How does the opening scene of this story help to create a mood of mystery and uneasiness and how…
In The Monkey’s Paw W.W. Jacobs describes the setting. Jacobs states, “Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned…
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- THE CRUCIBLE
Using “The Crucible,” write a letter to a friend describing the conditions and events occurring…
This is an assignment that you should write out for yourself, so that it sounds like you, with your own personality and voice. To help you to get started, I would suggest that you pretend to be…
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- THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
Why is the act of listening so very important in The Things They Carried?
“Not listening” is a common motif in the novel because O’Brien subverts the rhetorical dynamics between author, text, and audience. The problem is between author and audience, or between speaker…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
How do students play an important role in moulding the future?How do students play an important…
If you’re using the term “students” to refer to young people in general, then they mold the future simply because they *are* the future. When their generation grows up, they will be the leaders,…
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- WUTHERING HEIGHTS
What quotes in Wuthering Heights show that Nelly is reading Isabella’s letter to Lockwood?This is…
Two examples in the text of Wuthering Heights that show that Nelly is reading Isabella’s letter to Mr. Lockwood are in Chapters 13 and 14. In Chapter 13 Nelly tells Lockwood about a note Isabella…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
Why should America continue to allow immigration?
Here are the most usual arguments for why the US should continue to allow immigration: 1. It renews and supplements our pool of workers — both skilled workers and unskilled. Other rich countries…
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- THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
How do such poems as “The Road Not Taken,” work to discuss the individual and the culture?
Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is written from the first person point of view which the poet uses to suggest to readers that individuals are in control of making their own choices. Each person must…
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- SHORT STORY WRITERS
I am looking for short stories whose theme is perception vs reality or appearance vs reality….
There might be a couple of stories that could be interesting. I liked Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” in terms of its examination of how social perception of reality can translate into what…
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- NIGHT
In 3-5 sentences, relate what happens to Moishe from Night when he is deported in 1942.
Moishe is deported from Sighet because he is a foreigner, unlike Elie and his family. Elie’s family and the other Jews of Sighet feel sorry for Moishe, but don’t protest his deportation because…
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- BEOWULF
What is the proper relationship between a lord and his warriors in Beowulf?
The ideal relationship between king and thane or between lord and warriors is known as “Comitatus.” This is a sworn bond to protect the lands the thane inhabits and to protect the king when his…
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- NIGHT
In regards to Night, what happens to Moishe when he is deported in 1942?
When all the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, Moishe the Beadle was among them. After pretending to be dead among a number of Jews being left for dead among many Jews who had been shot,…
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- THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
In “The Man Without a Country,” what is Philip Nolan guilty of? Why was he a man without a country?
Edward Everett Hale’s “The Man Without a Country” is based on the true story of Philip Nolan, an American army officer who becomes connected with the trial of Vice President Aaron Burr. Burr was…
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- LITERATURE
In the story of “Casey at the Bat,” did you expect the poem to end the way it did? Why or why…
Part of the enduring popularity of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” is its surprise ending, where the indomitable slugger does the unthinkable: He strikes out. Throughout…
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- BUSINESS
In economics we learn that people buy things that maximize their utility but if my teacher forces…
That depends on whether you know that you will not need the book when you go to buy it. Let’s say your teacher tells you to buy a book and tells you that you will need it for class. When you buy…
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- WOODSONG
What does Storm do when the stove is being loaded and why in Woodsong?By Gary Paulsen
While the stove was being loaded on the sled, Storm, alone among all the dogs, sat and watched intently, “his face a study in interest”. When the narrator harnessed the dogs to the heavily laden…
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- ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM
What is the climax of Margaret Landon’s Anna and the King of Siam?
You are right in regards to the conflict and resolution. What you need to ask yourself in determining the climax of any work is, “At what point is the conflict at its highest point–in a…
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- A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS
What archetypes can be found in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”?Jorge Garcia Marquez’s “A…
With archetype meaning the original pattern or model after which a thing is made, the story itself is an archetype of a fairy tale with the role of the supernatural mixing with the mundane….
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- ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
What is the mood of the story of Orpheus?
The mood of Orpheus, The Great Musician retold by Olivia Coolidge is sorrowful. Orpheus loses his lover. She dies, but he thinks he can get her back only to be disappointed again. Finally the…
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- BUSINESS
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STIMULUS PLAN GOING TO WORK? THERE ARE ECONOMISTS GIVING OPPOSING ARGUMENTS…
The answer to this is that you’re not supposed to be able to have an educated opinion. The problem is that economics on this kind of a macro scale is very much a matter of faith. There is no way…
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- BUSINESS
What does it take to get a B.S. in economics?
Of course, the requirements for an economics degree will vary from college to college. Here are the requirements for one college (Washington State University). A common foundation of: Intro to…
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- ARTS
Ideology can be defined as a set of beliefs of a large group of people; these beliefs are widely shared and rarely questioned. Perhaps the single most important theorist to reflect on ideology is…
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- BUSINESS
is diminishing marginal utility in economics true?
The idea of diminishing marginal utility states that, as you get more and more of some good or service, the utility of the next unit of that good or service that you get has less utility for you….
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- ESSAY LAB
How would I write an effective thesis statement in an introduction to an essay?
Like the title of an essay, the thesis statement usually does two things: 1. Name the subject that you are discussing in the essay, and 2. Identify the purpose of your discussion. Your subject…
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- BUSINESS
Why are indifference curves convex to the origin in economics?
The convex shape of an indifference curve is due to the idea of diminishing marginal utility. This idea states that you get less value from consuming the “next one” of a good or service than you…
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- JUST LATHER, THAT’S ALL
How are the characters in “Just Lather, That’s All” real to life?
Vivid realism defines the two characters in Hernando Tellez’s short story, “Just Lather, That’s All.” Both Captain Torrez and the barber are drawn from real characters in Tellez’s native Colombia….
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- HISTORY
What effects did the Great Depression have on U.S. foreign policy?
In general, American foreign policy moved more toward isolationism during the Great Depression. There’s no way to prove that it was the Depression that caused this, however. During the 1930s,…
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- BUSINESS
Why are indifference curves in economics slope downward?
An indifference curve is a line that shows all the “consumption bundles” that yield (and here’s the important part) the same amount of total utility for an individual. So what an indifference curve…
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- JUST LATHER, THAT’S ALL
What would be a good thesis statement for “Just Lather, That’s All” in an introduction of an essay?
This excellent tale of suspense and tension naturally gives rise to a number of thesis statements. To me, the most natural and obvious one to focus on is examining the character of the barber in…
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- THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON
What is the climax of the Face on the Milk Carton?
The climax in the book takes place in chapter 17. Janie places a summary of the details of her kidnapping in one of the envelopes she had typed her return address onto in typing class. Later,…
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