In what stage of the cell cycle does a cell spend most of its time?
- ANIMAL FARM
In Animal Farm by George Orwell, what happened to the milk and apples, where did they both go?
The first item which disappeared was the milk. Soon after the Rebellion, the cows’ udders were filled to bursting point since they had not been milked for some time and when they had finally been…
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- THINGS FALL APART
What is the main theme of Chinua Achebe’s first three novels, Things Fall Apart, No Longer at…
You might start with a title such as “A Tribe Divided: The Igbo in Achebe’s Early Novels”. The main theme of Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe is the clash…
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- THINGS FALL APART
What is the main theme of Chinua Achebe’s first three novels-Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease…
Chinua Achebe’s first three novels—Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God— are often known as the African trilogy. The major thematic element that ties these three seemingly…
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- MACBETH
In the play Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, what is Macbeth’s first reaction to the three witches…
Banquo asks if the witches are dead or alive. He also notes that they seem to be women but they have beards. Macbeth is equally unsure what they are, so he asks. They do not answer this, leaving…
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- TREASURE ISLAND
What struggles does Jim Hawkins face in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson?
Jim Hawkins is the protagonist of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. During the story, he is an adolescent boy, enduring many hardships before he even starts on his adventure. The first…
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- BLACK BEAUTY
How does author Anna Sewell arrange the events of the story in Black Beauty? Are the events…
Aside from a few flashback-like sequences in Anna Sewell’s novel, Black Beauty’s story is relayed in chronological order, starting from the days he was a colt and ending with a brief reference to…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
How is the theme of death developed in Of Mice and Men?
This is a good question. Right from the beginning the theme of death is introduced. After Steinbeck offers a beautiful description of Salinas River, the scenery is spoiled by a dead mouse that…
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- REFERENCE
Examine any four factors to consider when creating a physical learning environment.
The physical learning environment plays a more important role in education than many people realize, and this is a shame. More time and energy should be put into its creation. Four factors that…
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- THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
What additional reasons should I add in an essay on whom I admire the most in Swiss Family…
It sounds as though you have a good central focus in your essay and are thinking about how you can expand it by using different strategies to develop and support your central claim. There are two…
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- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Which literary devices are used in Sonnet 12?
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. In a sense, the act of rhyming is a use of assonance. But assonance is usually cited when vowel sounds are repeated in a line. For example, in the…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
In a study on speed-dating, Kevin plans to measure the construct of ‘likeability’. Which one…
Kevin should decide to use Option 2 as his way of operationalizing the variable “likability.” Options 1 and 3 are not quantifiable while Option 4 depends more on the other person in the speed…
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- LILLIAN HELLMAN
What is a character sketch of Frederick in the play The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman?
By choosing Frederick, you have certainly chosen one of the more interesting characters in The Autumn Garden to reveal in your character sketch. Not as much is revealed about Frederick as there is…
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- THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
What types of bias are there in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Edward Connell?
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Edward Connell displays bias first by omission. Both central characters in the story are wealthy, able-bodied, white men. The evil characters are both Russian…
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- LILLIAN HELLMAN
Please comment on the title of the play The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman.
The Autumn Garden is an incredibly appropriate title of this play by Lillian Hellman. Why? Because it is a play primarily about the disillusionment that comes with middle age (especially that…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
Define the goals of corrections. Find one scholarly article supporting the goals, discuss what…
There are four main goals of corrections; retribution, incapacitation, rehabilitation and deterrence. Retribution is the idea society has the right to demand revenge for the violation of the…
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- THE RED CONVERTIBLE
Why does Lyman fiddle with the television in Louise Erdrich’s short story “The Red Convertible”?
In Louise Erdrich’s short story “The Red Convertible,” Henry’s brother Lyman comes back from the Vietnam War with very severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from having been a prisoner of…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
Evaluate the reason underpinning the exclusionary rule.
The Exclusionary Rule is a legal principle aimed at protecting the accused right to Constitutional protection under the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. Prior to the implementation of the rule,…
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- SCIENCE
Removal of cancerous lymph nodes from the neck sometimes requires removal of the…
There are two sternocleidomastoid muscles in the neck: one on the left side and one on the right side. The function of this muscle is to rotate the head to the opposite side, also referred to as…
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- THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS
How are The Screwtape Letters an example of Christian beliefs and practice?
The Screwtape Letters are an example of Christian beliefs and practice because it tells a story of the fight between good and evil. According to the story, man is the prize of the conflict and both…
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- EAST, WEST
How does Rushdie depict the cultural clashes of east and west?
Salman Rushdie’s short story collection East, West consciously presents the cultural disparities between Eastern and Western cultures. The conflicts in the “East” stories arise from modern concerns…
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- THE TEMPEST
How does Alonso feel about sleep in The Tempest?
Alsonso is surprised that everyone is falling asleep, and he wants to sleep too so he can forget his son is dead. Alonso is the King of Naples. He and Antonio, Prospero’s brother, betrayed…
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- RELIGION
Without making a value-laden argument, how can I discuss how religions, as a key social…
In answering this question, I assume that you mean to ask how religions could cause people to stop approving of same sex marriage or how they could make it become illegal again. At this point, it…
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- REFERENCE
Charles Babbage was a mathematician from England, sometimes called the “father of computing.” He was born in 1791 and taught himself algebra as a boy. When he got to college, he discovered that he…
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- THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN
In The Way to Rainy Mountain, what are the time periods of the stories and experiences of “The…
Keep in mind that, in order to understand this work, the reader has to have a grasp of its organization. The major parts of the work are the parts you mention. The work is further delineated into…
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- THE TIME MACHINE
In The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, which line of dialogue best shows how the traveler feels…
In The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, the time traveler, who is never named, wants to tell his friends about his extraordinary journey through time. As a scientist, he has always believed that time…
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- THE WEDNESDAY WARS
If you were to teach a skill to a character from The Wednesday Wars, what would it be?
For the character, my choice is Heather Hoodhood. The skill that I would give her (teach her) would be the skill of empathy for others. Heather is a fairly self centered character. She cares…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
What percentage of Americans are military veterans?
The current population of the United States of America is roughly 325,900,000 according to worldometer website. According to the National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, the projected…
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- BUSINESS
What is the median household income in Santa Clara County?
According to the United States Census Bureau, the median household income for Santa Clara county in the state of California, for the duration of 2009-2013, was $ 91,702. In comparison, the state of…
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- SCIENCE
Explain how working together can lead to success.
Working together makes use of the skill set and expertise of all the participants (or collaborators) to achieve a common goal. Collaborative or group work or team work is important in a large…
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- BUSINESS
What is the median household income in California?
The median household income in the state of California for the duration of 2009-2013 was $61,094, as reported by United States Census Bureau. In comparison, the median household income for the…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
What is the median household income in America?
The short answer to this is that the median household income in the United States for the period from 2009 to 2013 was $53,046. The source for this answer is found in the link below. This is…
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- SCIENCE
How does an atom gain or share an electron?
All atoms want eight valence electrons in order to be stable. Valence electrons are the electrons found in the outermost orbit of an atom and are the electrons involved in chemical bonds. Thus,…
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- SCIENCE
What molecular machine is responsible for forming an enzyme?
Enzymes are proteins that help to speed up chemical reactions with the body (in other words, enzymes are biological catalysts). Like all proteins, enzymes are created during protein synthesis. The…
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- SCIENCE
How are polar and nonpolar molecules differentiated on the basis of symmetry and intermolecular…
Polar molecules are those that have charge centers (both positive and negative) separated by a certain distance. This is due to the presence of strong and weak electronegative atoms in the…
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- ANIMAL FARM
What ideas does Orwell bring out through the character of Napoleon?
Orwell brings out many ideas through the character of Napoleon. But arguably the most important idea he brings out is how he gains and maintains power. First, Napoleon did not partake in any of…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
How much did the US export to China, and how much did the US import from China?
In 2014, the United States imported goods and services from China that were worth $466.75 billion. In that same year, the US exported goods and services to China that were worth $123.68 billion….
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- SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD
During Edwards’ lengthy sermon, members of his congregation cried loud and fainted in terror….
Edwards uses plenty of conventional imagery to describe hell (a pit, fire, the serpent, etc.) and the various violent means God will use to dispatch sinners. What is different and noteworthy in the…
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- SCIENCE
Mid-ocean ridges are associated with what?
Mid-ocean ridges are associated with ocean floor spreading. Ocean floor spreading was what was discovered in the mid 1940s by a naval officer named Harry Hess. Hess was helping make a map of the…
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- SCIENCE
Every living organism needs the food for the same reason that we do. We need food for energy and as a source of nutrients. The breakdown of food, through cellular respiration, releases energy in…
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- 1984
What is Oligarchical Collectivism in 1984, and how we can understand this in our world?
The Theory and Practice of Oligicharic Collectivism is the title of the book by Goldstein that O’Brien gives Winston. Under an oligarchy, a small group runs the government, almost always for its…
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- SCIENCE
Predict what might happen to multicellular plants if a microorganism that digests pectin was…
Pectin is an integral component of plant cell wall and is a major constituent of middle lamella. Pectin’s major functions are to provide physical strength to the plant and to provide a barrier…
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- SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT
What is a thesis statement for an essay about George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant?”
George Orwell’s 1936 essay “Shooting an Elephant” is about a British police officer, serving the Empire in occupied Burma, who has grown weary and bitter about the role of his nation in the…
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- MACBETH
Banquo fears Macbeth because he knows that Macbeth has heard the witches’ prediction that Banquo’s sons will be kings. Since the witches’ prediction that Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor has…
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- THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins, how does the narrator’s attitude towards the…
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story focused on the disintegration of the narrator’s mind. The point of the story, which reflects the author’s own experience, is that the…
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- THE COLD EQUATIONS
What are examples of direct characterization in Tom Godwin’s short story “The Cold Equations”?
Direct characterization occurs when an author comes out and directly describes what a character is like. Direct characterization contrasts with indirect characterization, in which an author shows…
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- HISTORY
What are some natural landmarks located in the Great Plains of Texas?
The Great Plains of Texas lie to the east of the Rocky Mountains and extend into the northwestern region of the state. They are sometimes called the High Plains and, in Spanish, the Llano Estacado….
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- HOW IT FEELS TO BE COLORED ME
A great deal of Hurston’s denial of the adverse psychological effects of racism is bravado. How…
In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” Hurston uses bravado to show her method of dealing with racial oppression to the reader, but she has not “overcome” racism. Hurston says clearly that she is hurt…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird, write down the line of text from this chapter that shows…
Jem offers to do work a hired man would normally do. During this chapter, Miss Maudie’s house catches fire. It is a terrible blow for poor Miss Maudie, but she takes it like a real trooper. It…
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- SCIENCE
In what stage of the cell cycle does a cell spend most of its time?
Eukaryotic cells have two parts of the cell cycle: Interphase and mitotic phase. It is the interphase in which a cell typically spends most of its time. During interphase, a cell grows and carries…
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- THE TELL-TALE HEART
Can “insanity” or “loss of sanity” be a theme for the story?
Yes, absolutely. The theme of sanity vs. the loss of sanity would be a leading theme choice of mine. There is a lot of support from the actual text as well. The word “mad” or “madness” is used 7…
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