Explain how only four years after the end of World War II China and Korea were dragging the US
- THREE MEN IN A BOAT (TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG)
Why did George find very few people in the streets as he rushed out to work in the morning?
The narrator tells us this story in Chapter XI of Three Men in Boat. George is reminded of a time when his watch stopped overnight, and he didn’t know what time it was when he woke up the next…
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- BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
List three warnings that you think Stephen Vincent Benet is giving his reader in the story. Of…
Warning number one could be a warning against losing knowledge. The story takes place in the future, but all of society’s current learning and technology has been lost; therefore, John and his…
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- NIGHT
Discuss what the last line of Night signifies, and how that indicates a change in Elie’s…
The last two lines of the text read, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” There are two major things…
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- THE BOOK THIEF
How does The Book Thief present German history and why does it do it in this way?
In an interview with Random House that can be found on YouTube, Markus Zusak says that both his mother and father lived in Germany during World War II. He grew up hearing stories from his mother…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
What are some similes in Of Mice and Men?
A simile is a type of figurative language which makes a comparison between two things using the words like or as. Like a metaphor, a simile seeks to show the qualities of one thing by comparing it…
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- THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
My teacher says that Dupin, from “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe, did not…
There are many characters in stories and novels who are so well drawn that we may tend to think of them as real people. Such characters include the great Sherlock Holmes, and more recently Holden…
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- THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
What does Montresor admit is his motive for the crime in “The Cask of Amontillado”?
Montresor says that his motive for killing Fortunato was that Fortunato had insulted him. We actually do not know what Montresor thinks Fortunato did, but we can assume it was nothing significant…
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- LITERATURE
What is the moral to the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant? What sayings sum up the story?
Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” is about a young woman, Madame Loisel, who daydreams about wealth, social status and luxury. When she is able to live her preferred life for one night…
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- THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
How is the human attempt to control a theme in this chapter? How is the sureness of uncertainty a…
You must be taking about Chapter Four: the Potato! The subtitle of this chapter, “Control,” addresses the attempts by humans to utilize the potential of potatoes as a food crop by modifying them…
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- THE LEAP
What does the narrator mean when she says she owes her mother her existence “three times” in “The…
The narrator means that her mother saved her own life or her daughter’s life three times. The story describes a trapeze artist’s daughter. She explains the impact her mother had on her life,…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What is the normal routine when Jem goes to read to Mrs. Dubose?
Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose’s camellias in a fit of rage. As penance, he must read to her for two hours a day, six days a week. Each day, Jem and Scout go to Mrs. Dubose’s house with a book. When…
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- OEDIPUS REX
Explain three unities related to Oedipus Rex.
Aristotle’s three unities are unity of place, unity of time, and unity of subject. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’s tragedy, achieves all three of the Aristotelian unities. First, it achieves unity of…
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- MACBETH
What does Macbeth gain throughout the play?
Macbeth, in fact, does not gain anything. He loses more than he gains. When he murders king Duncan, he finally takes the throne and is able to seize control and power. However, by taking the throne…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Explain the “good life” as reflected in Bhutanese and American culture.
What an interesting question! The good life as reflected in Bhutanese and American culture has been greatly influenced by changing political and socio-economic climates. Happiness itself has had…
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- SCIENCE
Describe the overall subunit that make up a DNA strand into a gene sequence
DNA is the chemical that makes up chromosomes. It is a polymer consisting of monomers linked together in a long chain. The monomers are known as nucleotides. Distinct sections of chromosomes are…
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- I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?
In “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” what is the speaker of the poem proud of being?
In this short, playful poem by Emily Dickinson, the speaker claims to be “nobody” and seems very proud of it. Obviously a person cannot literally be “nobody” because everybody, by definition, is…
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- THE MACHINE THAT WON THE WAR
What is the irony in Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Machine That Won the War”?
Isaac Asimov’s science fiction short story, “The Machine That Won the War” is about a future time when the Earth has just concluded a long war with an alien race called the Denebians. The war is…
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- SCIENCE
A ball of mass m=8.0×10^-2 kg starts from rest and falls verticaly downward from a height of 3.0…
Hello! To find momentums we need the speeds before and after collision. The simplest way to find these speeds is to use the energy conservation law. Before falling a ball had only potential…
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- JULIUS CAESAR
Various senators stab Caesar in the Capitol. The play’s opening scene foreshadows Caesar’s controversial standing. The commoners celebrate Caesar’s victory over Pompey, but several tribunes…
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- SCIENCE
In chemistry we did an analysis of a mixture of Na2CO3 and NaOH using double indicators and a…
This type of reaction is called a titration reaction and can be used to determine the concentrations of the components of a solution. In your reaction, your unknown solution was a mixture of Na2CO3…
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- ANIMAL FARM
Is there an ultimate victory for the animals in George Orwell’s Animal Farm?
In Animal Farm, there was no ultimate victory for the animals, with the exception of the pigs. While the animals realized their dream of overthrowing Mr Jones, life for the majority of the animals…
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- RELIGION
What is the cause Mahatma Gandhi was campaigning about? And why did he support this cause?
Mahatma Gandhi was a key figure in the campaign for Indian independence from Britain. During that time period, there was much racism directed at the native Indian population by the British…
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- ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
How then can a “Cold Pastoral” be called a “friend to man” in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn?
The image that absorbs Keats (or, more precisely, the poem’s narrator) on the Grecian urn is a “Cold Pastoral” because it is a picture frozen in time of a pastoral or outdoors scene. It is not…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
What is the main theme in Act 1, scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?
The theme is marriage. More specifically, Juliet’s marriage to the county Paris. At the beginning of the scene lady Capulet asks the nurse to summon Juliet to her chamber since she wishes to speak…
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- A MAN OF THE PEOPLE
Who are the main characters in the novel A Man of the People?
Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People, a novel that takes place in an unnamed African country, follows two main characters and a number of secondary characters. The two main characters in the novel…
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- ANIMAL FARM
What is the effect of Napoleon’s take over on the other animals of Animal Farm?
When Napoleon takes over control of Animal Farm by driving off Snowball, the effect is that he twists the ideals of the animals’ revolution to add to his own personal power. He violently purges the…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Despite Jem’s disagreement, Scout says she thinks that Boo Radley is in the Radley home and…
At the beginning of Chapter 4, Scout finds chewing gum in the knothole of the Radley tree. Later on, she and Jem discover a pair of Indian-head pennies in the same spot. These two events foreshadow…
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- SCIENCE
Why do you think Pluto is no longer a planet?
Pluto, formerly a planet of our solar system, was discovered in 1930. For a long time, we considered the 9 largest objects in our solar system that rotate around the Sun to be planets. However,…
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- THROUGH THE TUNNEL
Briefly explain how significant language features/textual conventions shaped your response to…
The third-person omniscient point of view of this story helps to shape our understanding of it by exposing us to both Jerry’s and his mother’s internal conflicts. We see that Jerry’s mother is…
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- LITERATURE
What are some of the themes of Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk?
Because Orhan Pamuk’s Other Colors is a collection of essays and short stories, there are many themes contained within its pages, but there are two that are most prominent. The first is the…
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- MACBETH
How do I write a monologue for the “gentlewoman/lady in waiting” character in Shakespeare’s…
In order to construct a monologue for the Gentlewoman, Lady Macbeth’s lady-in-waiting, you would need to pick out her most important contributions to the scene and then have her give voice to the…
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- OTHELLO
What is the significance of this quote from Othello? “Ere I would say, I would drown myself for…
The above quote originates from Act 1 Scene 3 in Othello where Roderigo complains bitterly about losing Desdemona to Othello. Iago, of course, is unsympathetic. He advises Roderigo to pull himself…
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- LE MORTE D’ARTHUR
what was the ideal of middle ages? how was this, reflected in “le morte d’ arthur”
In Le Morte D’ Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory does not spend his time focusing on magic and religion. Malory employs an indirect approach to the supernatural; he does not blatantly present the reader…
- SCIENCE
How is it possible for a parent to carry a gene for a genetic disorder and not know they possess…
A carrier is an individual that carries and is capable of passing on a genetic disorder. However, a carrier may or may not display symptoms of the disorder. This may be because the disorder carried…
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- WALK TWO MOONS
What does Phoebe think happened to her mother?
Phoebe is convinced that her mother has been kidnapped. She cannot believe that her mother would simply walk out and leave them. Yet her mother left notes for her, her sister, and her father, along…
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- HISTORY
Discuss the geostrategic location of Kenya in the relation to the British occupation of the…
Part of the reason the English wanted to colonize Kenya was the region’s importance to the slave trade, which was established during the rule of the Sultan of Zanzibar. The area had long been a…
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- MACBETH
Which version of Macbeth is most often performed? Which is the best production of the play?
These are difficult questions, as there are no clear answers, but searching for answers can still be an illuminating process. In regards to question #1, there are many published versions of…
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- PYGMALION
How does George Bernard Shaw bring forth his socialist ideas through the character of Mr. Alfred…
Shaw was a Fabian, part of a group that believed socialism could be achieved peacefully, without a revolution, putting him at odds with the Marxists. But both groups shared the belief that…
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- LYDDIE
How does the speed-up affect Lyddie? How does it affect the other girls?
At first, Lyddie thrives on the speed-up. She has quickly become one of the factory’s top-producing girls, so Lyddie has always been able to handle the big demand and long hours being put on the…
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- THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
In “The Most Dangerous Game”, what is the verbal irony in the title?
Richard Connel’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” is about a deadly hunt on a remote island between two men. Sanger Rainsford, a big game hunter from America, is the protagonist and General…
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- ESSAY LAB
What is a good way to start an introduction to an essay?
In starting an essay, it’s generally helpful to begin by introducing the reader to the general themes that you will address in your writing. If you are writing in response to another piece of…
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- HISTORY
How did the War of 1812 affect American industry?
In can be said that the American War of 1812 with Great Britain accelerated the pace of industrialization, particularly in the north. Before the conflict, Americans depended on manufactured goods,…
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- CRANES
When Tokchae and Songsam start taking a walk together, what does that show?
Tokchae and Songsam walk together through most of the story “Cranes.” The two men are on different sides of a conflict, and Tokchae is Songsam’s prisoner. Songsam agrees to escort Tokchae to…
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- LITERATURE
How did people send messages in olden days?
By “olden days” I will assume you mean the days before technology, or perhaps even the days before the telephone was in widespread use. Letters were a common means of communication prior to the…
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- PATRIOTISM
What is the role of gender and social status in “Patriotism” by Yukio Mishima?
The role of gender and social status is to reinforce the underlying message in Mishima’s text: his unyielding confidence in and loyalty to ancient Japanese values and martial ethics.Interestingly,…
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- HISTORY
I need to write an argumentative essay on whether the government is ever justified in…
Your thesis statement makes an arguable claim that offers a unique way of thinking about the topic. First, identify the problem, which is the controversy over the government withholding information…
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- HISTORY
Explain how only four years after the end of World War II China and Korea were dragging the US…
The events that were occurring in China and in Korea put the United States into a situation that could have led to war. When China became communist in 1949, it was the first time since the end of…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
What do George Wilson’s interactions with Tom reveal about him in The Great Gatsby?
During their interactions, George Wilson affords the wealthy Buchanan credibility because of his socio-economic position, believing Tom to be superior to him. Because he is deluded about his wife…
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- THE ODYSSEY
What are three epic similes dealing with Part 1 of The Odyssey?
The first place to begin with trying to construct a simile is to consider the quality or behavior you are attempting to figuratively represent and figure out something else that has that quality or…
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- AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Explain Bierce’s views of the war in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” How does he feel about…
Ambrose Bierce seems to feel that all war is wasteful, unnecessary, and brutal. His narrator’s subtle judgment of Peyton Farquhar’s assent “to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that…
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