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- HISTORY
How was the 1992 Presidential Election different from other recent elections?his 2
The 1992 election was the first after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet collapse, events that brought the Cold War to an end. It was fought shortly after the victory in the first Persian…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
Opinion polls indicate that most Americans hold a negative view of the federal bureaucracy. Is…
The bureaucracy is the term used to refer to all the various agencies of the federal government. These are things like the IRS (collects taxes), FEMA (disaster relief), TSA (checking for…
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- MACBETH
What is the role of the witches in Macbeth and the atmosphere they create?
In Macbeth, the witches serve as a catalyst for Macbeth’s fall into evil and as a symbol for Fate. At the beginning of the play, the witches tell each other that they will meet again when the…
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- MACBETH
What is a great simple idea for a costume of Lady Macbeth?It doesn’t have to be a full on dress…
That’s a terrific question. The answer, however, is problematic. If you are putting on the play and it is true to its time period, then you would need to research how women of stature and royalty…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Who believes that President Obama is being unreasonable in blaming the former president for all…
This is, of course, a matter of opinion. (Which is why it’s been moved to the discussion section since I typed this answer.) It is fundamentally impossible to answer such a question in an…
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- GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
Could anyone tell me where I can find the information to make a small chart that shows the flow…
It turns out this isn’t in the book and we’re supposed to google it to find out…
- THE GREAT GATSBY
Literary Device in The Great GatsbyHow is the “sweltering summer heat” used as a literay device…
Well, it’s not quite alliteration as one usually needs at least three repetitions of the consonant to be considered an example of the term. However, it does slide on the reader’s tongue like a…
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- A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
What are 3 reasons white is an important symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Tennessee Williams’ uses white as a symbolic color in several ways in his play A Streetcar Named Desire. White is typically considered to be a symbol of purity, so let us first consider the name of…
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- THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
Analyze the use of symbolism in “The Cask of Amontillado” by picking 3 symbols and explaining…
It’s been a long time since I’ve read or taught this story, but one symbol you can definitely count is the cask of the Amontillado wine, itself. It is the sole reason Fortunato has agreed to…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
What are the advantages and disadvantages of classifying mental disorders into types?What are the…
The Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a text which categorizes mental disorders by causative factor, type of malignancy, tendency to co-morbidity, characteristics, and much…
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- SCIENCE
Auscultation is when a doctor listens to the internal sounds of a patient, aided by a stethoscope. There are three areas that are examined. The first is the lungs, listening for wheezing or other…
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- FRANKENSTEIN
Creative Projects for FrankensteinAs a part of our summer AP literature project, we have to have…
What about trying to recreate the night of the creature’s “birth”? Maybe you can get a friend who is scientific/mechanical to set up a line/wire which can send electricity across a wire and make a…
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- THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC
Why did the author write this particular story?Such as : What was the point she was hoping I…
It is not surprising to see that Yolen wanted to create a testament to how the horrors of the Holocaust should not repeated. Yolen was convinced by one of her editors who is a wife to a Rabbi that…
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- MATH
How to solve inequalities with absolute value?I actually know how to solve it for the one problem…
l (x-3)/2l + 2 < 6 = l (x-3)/2l < 4 Then we have 2 cases: First: -(x-3)/2 < 4 Multiply by 2: ==> (x-3) < 8 Now add 3 to both sides: ==> x < 11 Then x belongs to (-inf, 11)…
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- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
What is the theme of the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Is it love? Dreams?
Both love and dreams are the two major themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. No less than three couples eventually marry by the end of the play; the feuding lovers of the fairy world, Titania and…
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- MATH
m/m+1 + 5/m-1=1note the steps step by step please?
m/(m+1) + 5/(m-1) = 1 First we need to determine the common denominator and rewrite the equation: common denominator is: (m+1)(m-1) ==> m(m-1)/(m-1)(m+1) + 5(m+1)/(m-1)(m+1) = 1 ==> m(m-1)…
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- ENOTES HELP
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- HISTORY
Kinzer divided US overthrow operations into three categories:”Imperial Era”, “Covert Action” and…
At least according to the labels, the differences are pretty easy to draw out. Looking at the “Imperial Era” when the US found ways to pretty publicly take over Cuba, The Phillipines, and various…
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- THE ROAD
Why do you think McCarthy ends the novel with the image of trout in mountain streams before the…
Full Quote: “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They…
- MATH
3ax-b=d-4cxplease note every step
3ax – b = d – 4cx I am assuming that you need to rewrite the equation with x on a side by itself: First let us group the terms containing x , on the left sides: 3ax + 4cx = d + b Now factor x: x…
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- THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC
What are the character traits of the main characters in the Devil’s Arithmetic?Physical,…
Hannah is a spoiled Jewish girl with no sense of her own religion. She is self-centered and dislikes many of her family members. Her world abruptly changes when she whisked back in time to…
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- LITERATURE
Do tenets of ‘cosmic, transcendental and providential vision’ of New England theological writers…
What an interesting question. I assume you’re referring to the Colonial American writers, such as Bradford, as those writing about “cosmic, transcendental and providential vision.” Anything past…
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- MACBETH
How do you interpret Macbeth’s closing line in Act 2, scene 2: “Wake Duncan with thy knocking!…
I interpret this to mean that Macbeth is feeling very guilty about the fact that he has killed King Duncan. We have seen this in a number of places already and this is one more bit of…
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- MACBETH
Quote and explain 2 lines of Lady Macbeth’s speech in the first 15 lines of Act 2 Scene 2 in…
At the beginning of Act 2 Scene 2, Lady Macbeth is waiting to hear whether or not Macbeth has been able to go through with their plan of murdering King Duncan. Lady Macbeth has fulfilled all her…
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- HUMANISM
What are the main features of humanism?
Humanism has these main features: belief in the essential dignity of man a focus on the moral and ethical context of classical texts Man is at the center of the universe involvement in the affairs…
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- TILL WE HAVE FACES
Does anyone know what Redival mean when she said to the Fox: “Everyone knows that you are the…
What Redival means is that Trom, the King of Glome, is so dependent on the Fox’s advice and counsel that the Fox, in effect, is the actual ruler. It is the Fox’s bargaining skill that gains Glome…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
lord of the flies bookAre there any discrepancies between what the reader/character expects to…
Upon my first reading of this book many years ago as a young teen, I was shocked by the brutality that the boys inflicted upon one another. Their murderous behavior seems somewhat tame by today’s…
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- BUSINESS
What you think about sexual discrimination at the workplace? Add examples.
There is another similar question by ivonne 2006 regarding gender discrimination. In general, the terms gender and sex are used interchangeably in the context of discrimination at the workplace….
- OEDIPUS REX
What is the narrative structure of Oedipus Rex?Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The narrative structure of Oedipus Rex is that of a classical Greek play: PROLOGUE (first act) In this part the play opens with the form of a dialoge in which the protagonist expresses the…
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- THE CALL OF THE WILD
Why did the author think it was important to describe such a man in Buck’s dream?
I assume that you are talking about the dream that Buck has in Chapter 4. This is the one where lying by the fire and then he is taken in his dream to a different fire with a different man there….
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Why have cities in the Western world grown so much in the last century?
Cities have grown so much because the more rural areas can’t, or at least aren’t, sustaining their current populations. People have to move where the jobs are. Rural industries, such as…
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- THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM—1963
Who or what are Clark and Poindextar in the book The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963?
The Watson children attend Clark Elementary School, and Byron shortens the name of the school to “Clark” when speaking of it. Poindexter is a name which is associated with a stereotypical “nerdy”…
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- THE ODYSSEY
“…terrified, they scattered on the shore. one here, one there.” Who was this that scattered and…
The translation that I have does not use these exact words, but since you say you are asking about Book VI, I think that you are referring to the part where Odysseus scares the maids who are…
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- LITERATURE
Myths revisited in 20th century literature in EnglishMyths revisited in 20th century literature…
One of my favorite stories that revisits classic Greek myth is “The House of Asterion” by Jorge Luis Borges (the story is collected in both Ficciones and Labyrinths). Borges’s story revisits the…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In to To Kill A Mockingbird, how does Lee introduce the significance of the book’s title? What…
In Chapter 10 of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee first introduces the quote that she chose for her novel’s title. Here, Scout recalls Atticus’s advice to Jem, after Uncle Jack gave the children…
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- THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
What is the significance of the fact that General Zaroff sings a tune from Madame Butterfly after…
I do not think that it the actual piece that Zaroff is humming from matters. What does matter is that he is humming a bit of an opera by a famous composer. The reason that this matters is that it…
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- TEACHERS
Literary SarcasmI got into an interesting discussion today and thought I would pose this…
I’m sorry that I can’t give you any literary examples, but I think that the only difference between sarcasm and just plain meanness is context. You can only be sarcastic without being mean if you…
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- MATH
Find the domain. Express your answer in both set notation and interval notation. g(u)=square…
g(u) = sqrt(u) + sqrt(4-u) The domain of g(u) is all u values which the function is defined. We knwo that the function is not defined when u < 0 and (4-u) <0. Then: u < 0 and 4-u <…
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- SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD
I need help with this question, it says what picture of god is the author painting? How do you…
I think that the title of the sermon can tell you something about how Jonathan Edwards wants to portray God. He is showing God as a very angry being who cannot stand the wickedness of the people…
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- SCIENCE
What is given to a person if they have their thyroid removed, because of cancer, to take the…
Because they no longer have a thyroid, they would need to take the thyroid hormone, thyroxine. The medicine they would need would replace that hormone. Levothyroxine is a synthetic form of this…
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- THE TELL-TALE HEART
Which character came to life in an especially vivid way? How did the writer achieve this effect?
This is a question that is answered by interpretation from the reader, but (to me, as a reader) the old man was the character that was described with more vivid detail, regardless of the fact that…
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- THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
Why does June continue to reject Neil and why is May against her rejection?
June continues to reject Neil because she was about to marry someone else but was left at the altar. According to May, “June swore off men and said she would never get married” (page 152). June met…
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- THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
I need a seven sentence plot summary of The Diary of Anne Frank.
In a brief summary from which you can derive your needed sentences, the play The Diary of Anne Frank dramatizes the true story of the confinement from 1942 till 1944 of Anne Frank, her family and…
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- HISTORY
How did the rapid growth of the US affect the establishment of the Jacksonian Democracy?
Jacksonian Democracy, which included an emphasis on individual opportunity (as opposed to the more elitist interpretation of democracy practiced by Jeffersonians) made much more sense in the era of…
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- THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
Compare the meanings of “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Thanatopsis” in regard to their messages…
There are, in fact, quite a few similarities between the poems “The Chambered Nautilus” by Oliver Wendell Holmes and “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant, but there are also some significant…
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- A SEPARATE PEACE
How does Phineas growth from a “a careless essence of peace” to a unhappy realist show…
If I understand your question correctly, the supposition is that Gene somehow “found himself” through his friendship with Finny, and you’re wondering how Finny’s transformation from a rather…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Do you think the method of science is a better way for gaining truth than other methods? Why or…
When it comes to finding the truth about physical facts, science is a better way than anything else. When you use the scientific method, you creat hypotheses that you can then test. If you do…
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- POETRY
What would a summary/ paraphrase of poem The River written by A K Ramunanjan look like in 300 words.
There can be many ways to go on this poem. I think that needs to be stated on the outset. On one hand, I think that there is much in the poem that talks about how artists are able to construct…
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- ODE TO THE WEST WIND
Shelly is a Romantic poet, but his beliefs differ from those of other Romantic poets. Comment…
I would say that the statement holds some level of validity. Shelley was much more concerned with artistic immortality than his predecessors. This is not to say that others before him did not…
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- HISTORY
In 5 paragraphs, how was the American Civil War the “seminal event” in American history?
I would talk about the following things if I had to write an essayon this issue: It led to the issue of race as a major political issue in the United States. After the war, the issue of black…