How does the setting of Heart of Darkness contribute to the film/novella?

How does the setting of Heart of Darkness contribute to the film/novella?

  • HISTORY

What did progressives advocate or support?

In general, the Progressives advocated or supported reforms that would make America safer for the middle class and which would allow the middle class to have more control over the society and the…

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  • THE SNIPER

In Liam O’Flaherty’s short story The Sniper, how did the sniper’s mood change as he watched the…

The titular sharpshooter in Liam O’Flaherty’s short story The Sniper is a man, a young man, whose short life has seen much killing, including by himself. As O’Flaherty describes this…

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  • THE GREAT GATSBY

When Gatsby and Daisy meet in Nick’s home, what does Gatsby almost break in The Great Gatsby?

Gatbsy almost breaks a clock. Gatsby knocks the clock off the mantle when he is pretending that he is calm. In fact, he does not feel calm. Actually, the clock is a metaphor. Luckily the clock…

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  • THE ODYSSEY

Discuss the disagreements that arose among the victorious Greeks after the fall of Troy (lines…

The disagreements that arose among the victorious Greeks after the fall of Troy in lines 152- 197 in the Odyssey Book 3 concerns the fact that in the past there were no disagreements at all (in…

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  • THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER

What is one condition between Tom and the devil in Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker?

Insofar as Washington Irving was reputed to have adapted Christopher Marlowe’s 16th Century legend of Dr. Faustus, who sells his soul to the devil in return for infinite wisdom and knowledge and…

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  • THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

Discuss and write a critical commentary of Wharton’s presentation of the old generation versus…

In Chapter XXXIV of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, 26 years have gone by, and Wharton dutifully brings the reader “up to date” on the societal and other changes that have transformed…

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  • THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

What are a possible comparative thesis and comparative points for “The Yellow Wallpaper” by…

The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is literally imprisoned in a room and this, according to her husband, is for her benefit. Her husband, John, determines that she is too mentally fragile to…

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  • MATH

When would 1+1=11??

In the number system we normally adopt in modern-day western life, 1 + 1 = 2 right? But the 1, the +, the = and the 2 are all just symbols, like letters in the alphabet. We use the same alphabet as…

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  • THE GIVER

Why do you think Jonas was passed over at the ceremony of 12 in The Giver? How do you think he felt?

Jonas was passed over because he was selected Receiver of Memory, and he was horrified and embarrassed. The Ceremony of Twelve is a special ceremony where all Elevens are given the assignments they…

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  • TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

In Tuesdays With Morrie, identify and discuss three lessons about living that Morrie addresses in…

Tuesdays with Morrie by sports columnist Mitch Albom is a poignant memoir of Albom’s reunion with his former sociology professor after sixteen years; when he was in college, Mitch would have…

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  • THE OUTSIDERS

In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, when Johnny and Ponyboy are in the church saving the…

Johnny and Ponyboy have lived with fear all of their young lives. The rivalry between the Greasers and the Socs in S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders, is bitter and violent, and Johnny in…

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  • MATH

How do you graph the straight line equation, y=9-2x?

Graph the line y=9-2x: Since you know that the graph is a straight line you need only find two points that satisfy the equation and connect them with a line. From geometry you know that two points…

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  • CULTURAL PLURALISM

What are the moral effects of cultural pluralism in the US?

Thomas Jefferson famously wrote regarding the approach of the newly-established United States of America to the masses of immigrants that threatened to submerge the white Protestant origins of the…

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  • ELIE WIESEL

To which emotion is Elie Wiesel trying to appeal in The Perils of Indifference?

Elie Wiesel was 15-years-old when he was imprisoned in and eventually liberated from German concentration camps. He has subsequently spent the next 70 years with one main mission: warning the rest…

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  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Need to compare and contrast Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird with Mr. Bonaparte from the play…

Since his character is not as well-developed by interaction with a variety of characters, it is rather a challenging venture to compare and contrast Mr. Bonaparte of Golden Boy to Atticus Finch….

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How to graph Y=5/2X-4

This is the equation of a line in slope-intercept form, or, in general, y = mx + b. The slope is m = 5/2 and y-intercept is (0, b) is (0, -4). Since the equation is given in slope-intercept…

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  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

What is the meaning of this quote? I need to write a 2 body paragraph on Chapter 3, “You never…

When telling Scout to consider things from others’ points of view, Atticus is teaching her empathy. Atticus tells Scout that you never really understand a person until you consider things from…

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  • DAISY MILLER

Examine the traces of Romanticism that remain in Henry James’s Daisy Miller.

I think that there are some distinct traces of Romanticism in James’s novella. One such remnant would be the work’s depiction of social conventions. Romanticism was a movement predicated on the…

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  • SOLDIER’S HOME

Describe the war’s psychological effects upon Krebs in the short story “Soldier’s Home.”

With much of the same thematic concerns of Eric Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Hemingway’s World War I veteran, Harold Krebs, returns to his small town in Oklahoma to find that,…

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  • BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

In Chapter One of Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, what were the consequences of those…

In Chapter One of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown’s history of the consequences for Native American tribes of the push westward by the expanding United States of America, Brown opens…

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  • MATH

solve the equation then check your solution 1.4 f + 1.1 = 8.3 – f

Solve the equation 1.4f=1.1=8.3-f This is a linear equation in one variable. There are a number of ways to find the solution to such an equation. For instance we could use a guess and refine…

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  • MACBETH

What is Lady Macbeth’s plan to murder Duncan in Macbeth?

It is a rather stunning introduction to the wife of Macbeth that the audience receives in Act I, Scene 5. Macbeth’s “dearest partner of greatness,” a foil to her husband,–even considered a…

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  • MATH

what lies between 16 and 38?

In finding what lies between 16 and 38, it is the same thing as finding the number that is in between 16 and 38 on a number line. To do that, take the average of 16 and 38. Take note that the…

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  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

What influence does Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird have on his family and community?

As a man of integrity, Atticus Finch effects a moral influence upon his family as well as some members of his community; on others he effects negative reactions, stirring the darkness of their…

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  • THE KITE RUNNER

From The Kite Runner, what would be a simile linked to the sacrifice within the book?

I tend to think that you could pull the idea of a string or a kite itself as an example of comparative language to represent the theme of sacrifice within the book. The string is a symbol…

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  • THE KITE RUNNER

In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, analyze the nature of betrayal of a single character and…

The exposition of Hosseini’s novel stresses the idea that there is a “way to be good again.” Through such an invocation, it is clear that the nature of betrayal in a character’s act possesses…

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  • MY ANTONIA

In My Antonia how do the surroundings, or how does the setting, affect Antonia and how does that…

First, think about the changing setting in the novel. The story begins in a rural area, where nature and scenery are very important. The countryside is explained in great detail, and affects how…

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  • BUSINESS

If I had $100,000 to invest, which market stocks are good to invest in? Which consumer goods…

Some of the best stocks to invest in that should prove stable and prone to growth are companies working with environmental sustainability. As growing populations strain resources, and global…

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  • HEART OF DARKNESS

From Heart of Darkness, could the setting change and still be successful to the theme?

In many respects, one of the basic themes of Conrad’s work is the idea that within each human being exists a duality. There is a duality within Kurtz. On one hand, he is the well- educated and…

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  • MATH

What is an equation of the line with slope of 6 and y intercept of -4

The equation of the line with slope of 6 and y-intercept of -4 can be found by looking at the slope-intercept form of a line. The slope-intercept form of a line is written as y=mx+by=mx+b, where mm…

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  • MY ANTONIA

In My Antonia, how does setting play an important role or affect Jim Burden?

British novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote, It is very difficult to know people. For, men and women are not only themselves, they are also the region in which they are born….You can know them…

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  • THE OUTSIDERS

In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, why are the Socs and Greasers going to have to rumble?

In S. E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, the Greasers and the Socs represent opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum. The story’s narrator, Ponyboy Curtis, is clearly a product of the…

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  • MATH

5(x-6)=20

First way to solve this: Use Distributive Property a(b+c)=a⋅b+a⋅ca(b+c)=a⋅b+a⋅c to the left side. 5(x−6)=205(x-6)=20 5⋅x+5⋅−6=205⋅x+5⋅-6=20 5x−30=205x-30=20 Since, we need to solve for x, we must isolate the term with x on one…

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  • A ROSE FOR EMILY

In “A Rose for Emily,” how can we interpret Miss Emily’s death as a form of foreshadowing?

In “A Rose for Emily,” there is an atmosphere of the haunted South mixed with a certain nostalgia created by Faulkner’s deft manipulation of time. This non-sequitur arrangement of the narrative,…

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  • SOCIAL SCIENCES

Describe a specific behavior of a child and discuss which aspects would be the result of nature…

In order to determine which elements of a child’s behavior are the product of environmental factors and which are attributable to genetics it is essential to have information on the child’s…

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  • JOHN LOCKE

According to John Locke, when do people have the right to overthrow their govenrment?

Thomas Jefferson, in writing the Declaration of Independence, and the authors of the U.S. Constitution were heavily influenced by the political theories of John Locke (1632-1704), which advanced…

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  • ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

1) Again we see the disparity between one day and the next with Siegfried. How frustrated…

I think that part of what makes Herriot’s work so powerful is that it depicts the reality of working with people who are challenging. One such instance of this is his work with Siegfried. To say…

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  • LITERATURE

Describe the reunion between Gatsby and Daisy in chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby. What significance…

The reunion between Gatsby and Daisy is pivotal to the story because up until this point we have only heard Gatsby talk about it. We are not sure if he really knew Daisy and had a relationship with…

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  • SOCIAL SCIENCES

Discuss the conflicts that present themselves within the environmental impacts of war.

In the modern setting, nations that declare war have caused damage to the environment. The trend of modern warfare causing calamitous impact to the environment can be seen in World War I and…

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  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL

What’s ironic about Scrooge’s speech with the ghost in Stave One of A Christmas Carol?

The speech is ironic because Scrooge accuses the ghost of being indigestion rather than admitting he is afraid of him. The ghost asks Scrooge why he doesn’t believe in him. A slight disorder of…

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  • THE KITE RUNNER

Without using specific quotes from Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, describe how Amir’s…

The Kite Runner is a book about the relationship between a boy and his father. Written by Khaled Hosseini and published in 2003, it is a story about a young boy named Amir and his best friend…

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  • THE CHILDREN’S HOUR

What are the key themes of ‘The Children’s Hour’ by Lillian Hellman? Thank-you.

The Children’s Hour was a play written by Lillian Hellman in 1934. The theme of the play was very risque at the time. It has the element of two women who may be having a love affair with each…

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  • HISTORY

Given the emerging role of the United states in the mid 20th century world affairs what…

I think that one distinct statement that can be made about the leadership styles of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy is that they embraced an approach for their time that enhanced their…

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  • SOCIAL SCIENCES

1)What is evidence based practice? 2)What is your understanding of test-retest reliability?

In the field of medicine, a new approach that has become the newest trend in health studies is called “interdisciplinary”. As the term implies, its purpose is to include experts from different…

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  • IN A FREE STATE

Where does the question of diaspora identities come into play in Naipaul’s In a Free State?

Naipaul’s In a Free State is a collection of three short stories introduced by a Prologue and closed by an Epilouge. These two elements are as important as the short stories in between them. In…

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  • MATH

Make up a counting problem for your classmates to solve. It can be one that requires the…

A section of one strand of DNA consists of 100 nucleotides. The nucleotides are one of guanine(G), adenine(A), thymine(T), or cytosine(C). How many different strands are possible? ** Each position…

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  • HEART OF DARKNESS

How does the setting of Heart of Darkness contribute to the film/novella?

The setting of the Congo for The Heart of Darkness is a dark, evil one, indeed. For, the history of the Belgian Congo is rife with crimes against humanity, most of which were perpetrated by King…

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  • MATH

Whats 209×7?

Evaluate 209 times 7: (a) Use the standard algorithm: 209 x 7 ——- 1463 Here you multiply 9 by 7 to get 63. The 3 goes in the units place of the answer while you “carry”…

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  • THE STORY OF AN HOUR

I have chosen the thesis that in Kate Chopin’s “The Story Of An Hour” characterization works to…

It is, indeed, not infrequent in narratives of Kate Chopin that characters who have been repressed experience an awakening, or even a burgeoning, of emotions. So, in order to argue that there is a…

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  • SCIENCE

Explain why velocity is a vector but speed is not

Take note that a scalar quantity has magnitude only. While vector quantity has magnitude and direction. Speed is the rate at which an object covers a specified distance. It is a scalar quantity…

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