• LITERATURE

Explain and analyze the forms of conflictExplain and analyze the forms of conflict in Silent…

I would say that one could create situations where there are many examples of the different types of conflict in each work. I think that being able to go back to each and identify where specific…

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• LITERATURE

How was the “American Renaissance” era in American Literature different from the “Discoveries and…

Good question. To understand the literature of a period, you have to know what’s happening during the period. Think about what’s going on during the Discoveries/Colonial periods, and you’ll…

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• WALDEN

Explain the significance of setting in “Sand County” by Leopold and “Waldern” by Thoreau.Explain…

From an environmental point of view, both settings influence their authors in quite a significant manner. Being at Walden Pond helps to allow Thoreau to understand how individuals are meant to be…

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• HISTORY

What are the similiarities between Mujahedeen in Afghanistan againsts the Soviets and Viet Cong…

To me, the two are very closely related. Here are a few similarities: Both of the two were relatively weak in military terms and were fighting major powers. Both of the guerrilla groups were…

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• THE LOVELY BONES

What are the major social issues in “The Lovely Bones” that you can support with three examples…

A major social issue that is present in Sebold’s The Lovely Bones is the manifestation of grief and loss. Susie’s disappearance and death is obviously a tragedy for her family and friends, but…

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• HISTORY

What is the relationship between the Cubal Missile Crisis and the concepts mutually assured…

To me, the major relationship between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the concept of MAD is that the Crisis really led to greater efforts on the part of both sides to create the MAD situation. The…

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• THE PIGMAN

Why couldn’t the kids go to John’s or Lorraine’s houses to play the phone pranks in The Pigman?

Neither John nor Lorraine have a very good relationship with their parents, and so bringing friends over to use the phone would be impossible at both their houses. John says that they “couldn’t…

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• DUBLINERS

What are the representations of women in Dubliners?

Concerning Joyce’s Dubliners, your question is too broad to be answered with much specific detail. This short story collection features numerous stories and is a major work. You’re asking for too…

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• OTHELLO

What do Othello and Desdemona find attractive about one another?

Othello in his address to the duke explains how the two fell in love. He sums up his story with these lines: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them….

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• HAMLET

What are some differences in the female characters of both The Catcher in the Rye and Hamlet?i…

In Hamlet, it could be argued, the female characters are more well-developed than in Catcher in the Rye. Though there are only two female characters of note in Hamlet — Ophelia and Gertrude – we…

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• THE BIBLE

Biblical references to obeying the laws of man?Biblical references to obeying the laws of man?

If you read Romans, Chapter 13, you will find an entire chapter about obeying the laws of man. Essentially, this chapter in Romans explains that man is to obey those that are put in authority over…

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• POETRY

Why write poems?Why write poems?

It is on of the purest forms of written expression. You take every way in which we write, and every thing we put in our writing, and we boil away the extras down to the core, basic and specific…

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• SCIENCE

car manufacturingi want to construct a car which has some features like it covers 100km above…

The type of engine – internal combustion gasoline? Solar/battery powered electric? Is going to affect the performance of the car because it will affect both your weight and design….

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• HAMLET

What (if anything) is Hamlet’s fatal flaw?

Concerning Shakespeare’s Hamlet, I’ll put my vote in for Hamlet’s tragic flaw being hubris. Hamlet has an opportunity to get his revenge and kill Claudius, but hubris keeps him from doing so….

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• POETRY

What makes a poem a poem?What makes a poem a poem?

This one will receive many responses and might be moved to the discussion realm. There might be definitive definitions with strict limiting functions about what constitutes a poem. I would say…

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• THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN

Why did Alexie give that reference to Turtle Lake in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…

The first sentence of the chapter that contains the reference to Turtle Lake is “The reservation is beautiful.” In this chapter, Junior enjoys the beauty and familiarity of the reservation, which…

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• SCIENCE

What is the most accurate temperature, the temporal or rectal?

The temporal artery temperature is the one taken on the forehead. The thermometer reads infrared heat waves released by the temporal artery just under the skin. Temporal artery temp’s are not…

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• 1984

Connect the author’s life to the plot, setting, characters or symbols in the novel

Orwell’s book ends with a very bleak tone. Winston is reduced to a walking zombie, a stark contrast from the resistance he strove to bring about in his own life and the sensuousness displayed at…

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• THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Could someone help me find a passage of 40 lines in The Picture of Dorian Gray ?I need to find a…

Why not use the passage from Chapter II in which Dorian is affected by the speech of the jaded Sir Henry Wotton, who encourages him to be Hedonistic? Here is an abbreviated form of the passage:…

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• GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

How does animal domestication affect plant production?these can be found in chapter 4.

There are two major ways in which having domesticated animals helps farmers produce more crops. First, having domesticated animals gives the farmers fertilizer. The dung from the animals can be…

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• GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

What was the role of governmental organization in the overthrow of the inca?This can be found in…

You can find this answer in the part that is headed with the italicized words “How did Pizarro come to be at Cajamarca…” The basic idea here is that both Spain and the Inca Empire had centralized…

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• GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

Explain the theory of how cold European weather may have affected mental development of European…

This is not something that Diamond says is true. In fact, he argues that cold weather did not actually affect the development of Europeans. However, there is a popular theory that Diamond sets…

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• HAMLET

In Branagh’s film of Hamlet, what do we see in the relationship between Claudius and Gertrude?…

This version of the movie has clear suggestions of the closeness between Claudius and Gertrude even before the death of King Hamlet. Because the scenes are either memories or visions of Hamlet’s…

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• GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

What are the 3 objections to answering Yali’s question discussed in Diamond’s Prologue?

I think that you mean “objections” to Yali’s question and not “objectives.” That is why I have changed the question… The three objections are: If we explain why some people rule over or…

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• HISTORY

Compare and contrast major arguments against racial and sexual discrimination?

These are not difficult topics to argue against, as discrimination in any form of business, housing or banking is illegal and has been for quite some time. So my first argument would be that it is…

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• HISTORY

What is institutionalized discrimination and comparable pay?

Institutionalized discrimination refers to discrimination that is not blatant discrimination by individuals but rather discrimination that is inherent in a specifice system. For example, if a male…

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• HISTORY

Define the terms invidious contempt, discrimination, reverse discrimination, and affirmative…

Invidious Contempt: A form of envy in which you not only covet what another person has, but you wish they didn’t have it either. You go so far as to despise the owner of the coveted object, are…

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• THE GLASS MENAGERIE

How are the characters empowered through sexuality and physique?

I don’t think The Glass Menagerie deals with either sexuality or physique in any significant way. The clearest reference to physique (which I’m interpreting as physicality) is Laura’s so-called…

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• THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Considering gender roles, how can The Glass Menagerie be compared and contrasted with A Streetcar…

I think that you would want to focus on how women are depicted in both of Williams’ work. Amanda and Blanche might be a good starting point on how both women are depicted. Both have some…

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• THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Is Injun Joe guilty or innocent and is Muff Potter guilty or innocent?

This depends to some extent on what you are talking about — what crime. But I would say that both men are guilty of something. However, Injun Joe is guilty of much more than Muff Potter is. Both…

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• SCIENCE

Are stomach ulcers really caused by eating too many hot foods,if not what causes them and can…

Ulcers can in fact be caused by spicy food, but usually it is only a contributing factor and can hardly be considered a major cause of peptic ulcers or any other kind of stomach ulcer. Added…

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• FAREWELL TO MANZANAR

WHAT ARE SOME ADVICE TIPS OR BEHAVIORS THAT A PERSON WOULD NEED TO SURVIVE IF HE OF SHE WENT…

It seems to me that the main thing that a person would need if they were put in a situation like that of Jeanne Wakatsuki would be patience. It would be important for the person to be able to wait…

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• SCIENCE

In reference to the skeletal system, what is the growth plate & how many, if any does the…

There are actually growth plates at the end of every long bone in the body, so long as the subject is a child or an adolescent. The growth plate is also referred to as an epiphyseal plate, and…

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• GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

What are the main causes of low human population density in many polynesian islands? What…

What Diamond is saying in this book is that civilization is sort of an accident — places that have good climates and good luck can have lots of people and civilizations. In Chapter 2, he is…

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• THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

What is symbolic about the name Jim Cross in The Things They Carried?

Lt. Jimmy Cross’s name symbolizes the burden that he has to carry as the reluctant leader of men during wartime. First, his initials are intentionally J.C. (Jesus Christ). While Cross is hardly a…

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• ELIZABETH GASKELL

Explain what we learn about Captain Brown from the narrator of “Our Society at Cranford”I already…

The first several paragraphs of the story establish for both the reader and for Gaskell herself that we are about to revisit the maternal home. As children naturally see their mother as vastly…

• GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Who are the “toadies and humbugs” in Chapter 11 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens?

These people are relatives of the Pocket family, with whom Pip will soon become acquainted. They are distant relatives of Miss Havisham – Camilla, Raymond and Sarah. Matthew Pocket, who is NOT in…

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• THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

How does Dorian commit himself to a hedonist lifestyle?

“Moral duty is fulfilled through the pursuit of pleasure”–one definition of hedonism. Of course, Dorian commits himself to this after having been tainted by both Lord Henry and the book that Lord…

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• JOHN DONNE

In “Death Be Not Proud”, explain the idea Donne conveys with the line “From rest and sleep,…

John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10,” better known as “Death Be Not Proud,” attacks in a series of paradoxes the conventional depiction of death as man’s invincible conqueror. The poet tells Death, for…

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• WILLIAM BLAKE

Read William Blake’s “The Tyger” and describe the poem’s form or structure.

I love this poem, and its counterpart, “The Lamb”. The Tyger is a poem from the Songs of Experience (how the world effects us as we grow older and have experiences); the Lamb from the Songs of…

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• POETRY

Describe the relationship between the “she” and “I” in Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic.”…

When reading a poem, you must of course never assume that the speaker – the “I” – of the poem is the poet. In the same way that a fiction writer can write in the voice of a different person, a…

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• POETRY

Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic”: describe the poem’s form or structure. Consider stanzas, line…

The form of Eavan Boland’s poem “Anorexic” is suitable for its subject matter. In the poem, a speaker describes the effect that anorexia has had on both her physical and emotional health. The…

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• SCIENCE

What happens to a baby if their skull does not fully develop over the soft spots a year after…

When a baby is born, it actually has several soft spots all over the head – most are small enough though that they are virtually undetectable. “The” soft spot, the largest one right on top of the…

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• ANIMAL FARM

Can someone help me write an essay discussing the role of Squealer in Orwell’s Animal Farm?

One of the best places to start is actually in the book itself or in any decent commentary about it. Orwell very carefully created his characters in order to mimic certain political figures of the…

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• BURIED ONIONS

Who exactly is Lupe in Buried Onions?I know he’s one of Angel, and Jesus’s old friends and that…

Lupe is one of the boys who grew up with Eddie in the barrio. As Eddie says, Coach knew “all of us glue sniffers – Angel, Lupe, dead Jesus, and me – since we were on bikes with training wheels. He…

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• HISTORY

The Golden Temple is dedicated to which guru?

The Golden Temple is the popular name of the holy place of worship of Sikhs officially called Harmandir Sahib. It is situated in the city of Amritsar, in the middle of a tank. The city of Amritsar…

• HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS

in “Hills Like White Elephants.” what might the phrase “white elephant” mean, and how might this…

A white elephant is an idiom for something that is expensive or costly to the owner; this owner is burdened with it and cannot sell or rid himself of it. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills…

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• LITERATURE

what is the message of the essay ‘the reason’ by ev lucas it is just like a story.why he called…

The theme of the essay is the unity of animals and their dislike of man.It also tells about the cooperation of animals.”Four feet are thicker than two”

• HISTORY

What issues were at stake for the United States in El Salvador and Nicaragua?History 2

It is not clear what time period you are talking about here. There are a couple of different times in which the US was relatively interested in the affairs of these countries. First, in the early…

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• POETRY

What effect can free verse have?

The idea of determining the effect of a particular type of poem is interesting but probably also open to a rather broad interpretation. For me, the primary effect of free verse poetry is that of…