In "The Tempest", what did Antonio feel toward Prospero, and why?
- THE TEMPEST
In “The Tempest”, what did Antonio feel toward Prospero, and why?
Prospero, who was the Duke of Milan, had become obsessed with magic, and was not really attending to his dukely duties. In fact, he had given them over to his brother, Antonio, as he tells Miranda…
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- MATH
How do you find the volume of an uneven figure made up of 1 inch cubes?
There are a couple of approaches that you can use to find the volume of an irregular figure: Technically, one finds the volume by multiplying a figure’s (length x width x height). In the case…
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- JULIUS CAESAR
How will Portia react when she knows that Brutus killed Caesar?
Interesting question! Well, there are only a few brief mentions of her in the play. At the end of Act 2, Scene 1, Brutus agrees to tell her his “secret”, and reveal to her the plan to kill Caesar….
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- SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
In Sense and Sensibility how does Jane Austen voice her moral convictions through her handling of…
In Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen finds a way to discuss her concerns about the dangers of a tendency toward emotional romanticism, concerns that first show up in her juvenile literature. To…
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- PHYSICS
State Boyle’s law and explain an experiment to demonstrate the relation between pressure and…
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) English physicist and chemist, first determined that compressibility of air in a closed system varied with pressure in a simple inverse relationship. If pressure doubled,…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
In “The Great Gatsby”, who killed George Wilson?
George Wilson commits suicide with the same gun he uses to murder Gatsby. As Gatsby floats on a raft in his swimming pool, Wilson shoots him several times, killing him. Nick, along with Gatsby’s…
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- BIOLOGY
Benefits of microbesWe normally hear how deadly bacteria and viruses are in life. But these…
True! Without them, there’s no beer, digestion, or nitrogen in the soil!
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- MATH
What is this number? if I divide it by 2, the remainder is 1. If I divide by 3, the remainder is 2.
5 divided by 2 equals 2 with a remainder of 1. 5 divided by 3 equals 1 with a remainder of 2.
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- MACBETH
In Macbeth, what is to happen upon the ringing of the bell?
Although Macbeth tells the servant to ask Lady Macbeth to ring the bell when his drink is ready, the ringing of the bell signals that she has drugged the grooms guarding Duncan and laid their…
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- TWILIGHT
Name the cullens in order of how they entered the family.
It all started with Carlisle. He first turned Edward who was a patient of his and was dying of Spanish Influenza. After Edward, it was Esme, Carlisle’s wife. After some time they thought Edward…
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- DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Richard Cory implies that money cannot buy happiness. But Willy, unlike Richard Cory, has real…
Willy and Linda face serious financial difficulties. Willy has been removed from his salaried position working for Howard to be placed on commission. Willy will make no money unless he makes sales;…
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- OTHELLO
Explain how Iago uses the punishment of Cassio as a tool to exact revenge against Othello.answer…
When Othello publicly scolds Cassio and strips of his rank, Iago is there to “pick up the pieces.” Cassio wants to regain favor with Othello, and Iago comes up with the plan to do it. He tells…
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- DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Why is there such a lot of play with light and music? Why is the contrast between city life and…
Miller uses light, music, and the contrast between nature and city life to underscore Willy’s memories. When the flute music is played, the audience is alerted to an oncoming memory for Willy; the…
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- SONG OF MYSELF
In Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” #10 what does it mean?
The first half talks about his travels; he lists different experiences he has had. The first is going out hunting, “wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee” as he does. It is obvious that…
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- GEOLOGY
How do Chemical sedimentary rocks form?
Sedimentary rocks are formed from compressed and solidified layers of organic or inorganic matter, such as mud, sand or gravel, building layer upon layer over eons. An organism may die and if the…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Who does Atticus think caused Bob Ewell’s death in “To Kill a Mockingbird”?How does he react?…
Atticus thinks that Jem killed Bob Ewell in the course of the struggle. He stops to consider for a moment how old Jem is since this might make a difference in the course of a legal investigation….
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
1)Why do you think Golding chose to set Lord of the Flies on an island, and how does he use the…
Golding himself said that he was influenced by idyllic island novels such as The Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Cruesoe. Though he had enjoyed reading these novels and sharing them with his…
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- THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
In the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Mark Twain uses Huck as the narrator. Why do…
It’s Huck’s story. It’s told in his language and his words with his feelings, thoughts, and reactions–regardless of how well he understands the situation. No one else could tell the story as he…
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- RICHARD III
Who do the deaths in Act 3 suggest about justice in “Richard III”?
Richard’s body count piles up in Act 3, as it will continue to do so for the rest of the play. Rivers, Gray, Vaughan, and finally Hastings all bite the dust. And why? Because none of them will…
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- A DOLL’S HOUSE
Is Nora a “hero” or simply a protagonist in “A Doll’s House”?
Nora may not be heroic in the classical sense, but her decision to leave Torvald at the end of the play is certainly a type of heroism. Once Nora understands the depth of her husband’s selfishness…
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- BUSINESS
The term Classical Management dates back to the Industrial Revolution. It was somewhat more rigid than management styles used today. “Classical management theorists thought there was one way to…
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- HISTORY
What did ancient Roman clothing look like? What hair styles did they wear?Please include fashions…
The ancient Roman garment that we are probably most familiar with today is the toga. It was a large piece of fabric that was wrapped around the body and draped over one shoulder, leaving the other…
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- MACBETH
Lady MacBeth is not evil at the beginning of the play, but changes to become so once she hears of the witches’ prophecies and once she samples the “o’er vaulting ambition” that so corrupts her…
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- A DOLL’S HOUSE
To what extent is Nora a tragic victim in “A Doll’s House”?
Nora is a tragic victim primarily because she is the “doll” wife to Torvald. She has no real identity of her own and is never taken seriously by her husband. She is simply this “porcelain doll”…
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- JOHN DONNE
John Donne is metaphysical poet. Discuss.
Metaphysics is the philosophical study of reality or being. John Donne is very interested in defining and understanding what is real, and what exists and what does not. One of his more famous…
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- HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS
What do they mean by how are the charecters drawn and are they recognizable or not in “Hills Like…
The characters are definitely recognizable but in this short story, as in all short stories, there is not enough time to fully develop the entire personalities of the characters. By definition,…
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- THE SCARLET IBIS
Re-tell about finding the coffin from Doodles point of view in “The Scarlet Ibis”.
This is from Doodle’s point of view, and it’s similar to the style of writing that Hurst used. My brother could be so nice to me. When he took me out to Old Woman Swamp for the first time, I was…
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- GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS
What is an actual example of rhethoric?
Rhetoric is the general term for a huge variety of devices and techniques – you could almost say tricks – used by speakers and writers to persuade an audience of a particular argument or point of…
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- TEACHERS
A contemporary nonfiction book for AP EnglishHi, We are wrapping up Macbeth and I would like to…
The Kite Runner and its sequel (A Thousand Splendid Suns) are good choices. You could also do Tuesdays with Morrie.
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- MACBETH
In Macbeth, do you blame Macduff for abandoning his family? Why or why not?
I don’t blame Macduff, but he certainly blamed himself and agonized over their deaths. When he first hears of their slaughter, Macduff’s first reaction is that he wasn’t there to help them….
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- MATH
I need help please. Use tables or graphs to compare these two equations for x values from 1 to…
x y=2(3x) y=64(1.5x) 1 6 96 2 12 192 3 18 288 4 24 384 ….I’ll leave the rest to…
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- SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT
In “Shooting an Elephant”, what is Orwell’s opinion of the Burmese? Of the British Raj? What…
Orwell is very conflicted by his position in this story. He is stuck in a position of an authority he does not support. He had “already made up his mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the…
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- HAMLET
What are the effects of the tragic flaw on the hero in “Hamlet”?
First, Hamlet’s tragic flaw needs to be identified. If he has one, it is his tendency to overthink and over-analyze things, if that can be viewed as a flaw. It is this constant analysis that…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
What is Golding’s main message? Has he a solution for this message/problem?
Golding’s theme in the book is that everyone is capable of evil and it is only society’s rules that keep most individuals from acting on that evil. He felt that evilness was part of the human…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
How does fear play a major role in “Lord of the Flies”? What are the effects of fear on the boys…
Fear is part of what brings out the savage nature in the boys, the evil that Golding felt was part of all people. Fear is a reaction that tends to strip people of the ability to think with reason,…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
I am looking for the text passages where the places are described in “The Great Gatsby”. Can you…
Both West Egg and East Egg are described somewhat in chapter 1 beginning about 2 or 3 pages from the start of the story and continuing occasionally throughout the chapter. Descriptions continue…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
Can you suggest some special text passages in regards to the setting of The Great Gatsby?In…
Fitzgerald does a wonderfully succinct job in describing the moral value systems, lifestyles, and social relationships of East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of the Ashes in just a few short (but…
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- THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS
What is a quick summary for Chapter 10 in Twenty-One Ballons?
At the request of Mr. F, the Professor gives a talk to a gathering of all the citizens of Krakatoa about San Francisco. While he is speaking, the land begins to shake even more ominously than…
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- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
Identify simile, metaphor, an emotive word and a hyphenated word in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
I’ve included definitions to ensure that you understand what each one is as well as examples. Simile (A comparison using like or as): ” to feel-almost as a sunbather feels the sun-that warm male…
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- PHYSICS
What around the moving electron happens to the magnetic field? what inthe magnetic field the…
There are 4 fundamental forces in the Universe – Strong, Weak, Electromagnetic, and Gravitational. What holds electrons moving around the nucleus of an atom is the Electromagnetic Force, as the…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
What does this line mean? “then i’ll be brief! oh, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. there rust…
It means she’s going to kill herself. Juliet’s chest becomes the dagger’s sheath (place you store your cutlery). “There rust and let me die” refers to the eternity of rotting death they will spend…
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- HAMLET
Hamlet is a hero. He is also crippled by the welter of emotions that bombard him after finding out that his father is dead and his mother is married to his uncle. Upon returning home from…
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- HAMLET
Why is the line “At home, my lord” so important, and why might it make Hamlet angry?
If one is reading the play as though Hamlet is sane and merely manipulating his surroundings, then “At home, my lord” becomes Hamlet’s confirmation that Ophelia is supporting her conniving father…
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- FAST FOOD NATION: THE DARK SIDE OF THE ALL-AMERICAN MEAL
What questions is the author trying to answer and how does he want readers to react in Fast Food…
This is a very scary book if we believe everything it says. The purpose of this book is to investigate the role in which fast food is responsible for a number of significant problems that the US…
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- LITERATURE
What would be a good topic sentence for a paragraph essay on “My Favorite Room”? I would like to…
As my favorite room, my bedroom provides comfort for me in many ways. Or My bedroom is my sanctuary because it is the only place I can truly escape reality. Hope these help!
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- LITERATURE
What is the secret referred to in “The Secret” by Denice Levertov?i have no clue
We don’t know what it is, so don’t feel bad for having no clue! Even the author herself states in the poem, “I who don’t know the secret wrote the line”, and she loves the two girls for “finding…
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- MATH
There are twenty alphabet cards in a big bag. If the probability of pulling a vowel is 1 out of…
1/5 x 20 = 4 vowels 20 – 4 = 16 consonants
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- SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
In “Sonnet 18,” what is the symbolic meaning of “May” and “summer”?
In Shakespeare’s sonnet, May is a part of summer; any symbolism in the poem encompasses both of them. Summer, then, becomes symbolic of nature, which pales in comparison to the one to whom the…
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- THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, how do the duke an the king behave toward each other after…
When Huck and Jim first encounter the King and the Duke, the two rogues are working together to come up with ways in which to scam the small town citizens out of their money. They play off of each…
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- CYRANO DE BERGERAC
What does de Guiche do to Christian and Cyrano at the end of Act 3? What promise does Christian…
At the end of Act 3, de Guiche sends Christian and Cyrano off to war. The cadets were not originally going to war, but when de Guiche learned that he had been tricked and Roxanne had married…
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