Is coffee soluble or insoluble?
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
On what pages is Aunt Alexandra mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Aunt Alexandra is briefly mentioned in Chapter 1, page 5, when Scout is describing her family history and why they settled in Maycomb. Scout mentions that Alexandra stayed at Finch Landing and…
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- THE ALCHEMIST
In his novel The Alchemist, what does Coelho do to change Santiago’s mind about not believing in…
Coelho is a master writer and does a few things to help his protagonist save himself from the humdrum world of life as a shepherd. First, he sends Santiago dreams of a treasure in Egypt which pique…
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- THE PEARL
What does it mean when it says ‘the whole’ in Chapter 1 of The Pearl?
The whole, referred to in Chapter 1, is all that Kino sees, and all that he needs. This is the entirety of his existence, and he is content. His wife, Juana, and his baby son, Coyotito, provide a…
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- BEOWULF
In Beowulf, when do the pagan/pre-Christian/Germanic influence in the text and the elements of…
Beowulf was likely originally composed by pagans, and the story is fundamentally a heroic epic that reflects the beliefs and traditions of early medieval Scandinavian cultures. Many scholars…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
What event happens that makes Montag question society?
When Montag witnesses a woman commit suicide by lighting a match during a routine house call, he begins to question society. While Beatty drenches her books in kerosene, she tells him that he can…
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- BUSINESS
What is happening to the value of the U.S. dollar these days?
Over the past year or so, the United States dollar has been appreciating against most other currencies. You can see this trend in the graph in this link. This graph shows that the US dollar has…
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- THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
How does personification of the house help develop the setting in the short story “There Will…
In the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” Ray Bradbury personifies the house to set the story in the future. He gives life to the futuristic house and includes the dates August 4 and…
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- THE MONKEY’S PAW
Does “The Monkey’s Paw” deal with man vs. nature? If so, explain.
The conflict in “The Monkey’s Paw” is man versus supernatural. There are many different types of conflict in literature. We classify man vs. nature conflicts as conflicts involving animals,…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
What are some barriers to communication?
Barriers exist that disrupt individuals and groups from realizing their potential through effective communication. One problem that arises in communicating is that people are only interested in…
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- MACBETH
Act 3, Scene 1: What is an analysis of how Macbeth’s character has changed?
In Act III, Scene 1, Macbeth seems to have lost all conscience and succumbed to his lust for power. Beforehand, Macbeth has faltered at the idea of killing King Duncan in order to become king more…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
Compare the violence shown by Tybalt and Lady Macbeth: how are they violent? Please provide…
Tybalt seems to enjoy violence just for its own sake. In the first scene, when he comes upon the street fight, he mocks Benvolio’s request that Tybalt help him to keep the peace. Tybalt…
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- ANIMAL FARM
What is wrong with Boxer’s hoof, in Animal Farm?
Boxer split his hoof fighting the people during the Battle of the Windmill. The humans are not happy leaving Animal Farm to the animals. After losing the Battle of the Cowshed, they regroup and…
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- MATH
A teacher polled her kindergarten class to see what each student’s favorite color was: Color…
Assuming color represents the relations input and the number of students represents the output, the relations inverse would not be a function. To determine switch the inputs and outputs of a…
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- THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK
How does Alfred Prufrock show the conflict between decision and indecision in ‘ The love song of…
Oh wow. This is a poem I’ve loved and puzzled over for at least two decades now, but the older I get, the more it means to me. Methinks ’tis a mature poem, meant for mature audiences who understand…
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- THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
What is the identity of the culprit in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band?”
To get a great deal of information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Spotted Band,” follow the links to the right of this question. This can help you with any questions…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
Explore some of the ways in which Steinbeck makes the dream of “livin’ off the fatta the lan’” so…
One way that Steinbeck makes the dream of “livin’ off the fatta the lan’” so revealing is through powerful detail. In chapter 3, we understand the power of the dream that George and Lennie share….
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
For Chapter 6 of Blaming the Victim, by William Ryan, I need help writing an essay.
The 1970 book by Dr. William Ryan, Blaming the Victim, coins the title phrase as a way to explain how the system tends to push down those who are already touching the rock bottom of society by…
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- THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
According to the narrator, what needs to happen for revenge to be successful?
In the first paragraph of the story Montresor specifies two things necessary for a successful revenge. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution…
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- THE TIME MACHINE
In chapter two of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, what is one condition the Time Traveler sets…
When the Time Traveler arrives at his home for dinner with his friends in chapter two, he has obviously been through some sort of an ordeal–he is dirty, injured, his clothes are torn, and he looks…
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- SCIENCE
Methane burns in oxygen, O2. Carbon dioxide and water are made. Write a balanced equation for…
This is an example of a combustion reaction. When a hydrocarbon combusts it reacts with atmospheric oxygen to produce water and carbon dioxide. Methane, having just…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In chapters 1-5 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which characters are prejudiced and why?
In chapters 1 through 5 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, many characters are portrayed as being prejudiced. Some of those are three of the most important characters–Scout Finch, Jem Finch,…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking bird, how does Scout view others in Maycomb? What memorable…
Throughout Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, as the narrator, makes many observations about others. In fact, the name “Scout” symbolically refers to one who is on the lookout. One of the…
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- TO ROOM NINETEEN
I need discuss Susan’s madness in To Room Nineteen.
It would appear that Susan, the main character in the story, began to lose her mind after she had children, and began to really consider why she married and chose this (the married) lifestyle. The…
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- JULIUS CAESAR
In Julius Caesar, what is the contrast between Portia’s behavior in Act 2, Scene 4 and Act 2,…
The difference between Portia’s behavior in Scene 1 and Scene 4 of Act 2 of Julius Caesar can be explained by a few lines spoken by Brutus towards the end of Scene 1 of that act. O ye gods,…
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- SCIENCE
Describe the relationship between temperature and kinetic energy.
Temperature is a measurement of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in an object or a system. Kinetic energy is the energy that an object has because of its motion. The molecules in a…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
What is the difference between ideology and culture?
Political culture is shared norms and beliefs about how citizens and government relate to each other. In the U.S., common elements of political culture are a shared belief in democracy, liberty,…
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- SCIENCE
Sound waves do this in order to transfer the wave
A sound wave is a disturbance that propagates through air or another medium. The disturbance, a vibration, is transmitted via a series of successive compressions and rarefactions (stretching) of…
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- SCIENCE
What happens after 5 minutes of osmosis and 1 hour of osmosis?
The answer depends on several factors associated with the system in question. One would need to know information about the membrane across which osmosis is occurring and the concentration gradient…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Provide a quote that shows Atticus was courageous when killing the mad dog.
Thanks to Calpurnia’s quick thinking, the whole street is shut down when they spot Tim Johnson, the rabid dog, coming down the road. Atticus comes with Sheriff Heck Tate to take care of the…
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- SCIENCE
Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same atomic number (that is, same number of protons), but different atomic mass (that is, different number of neutrons). Isotopes find different uses…
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- THANK YOU, M’AM
I have to write an opinion essay about life changing encounters such as the one in “Thank You,…
As with all opinion pieces, you will have to write this from your own perspective. Hughes’s story is so powerful because it contains a “life lesson.” Our lives can be changed through one…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
In Lord of The Flies, what evidence is presented, in the beginning of the book, that shows Jack…
While Jack is very eager to be a leader, and is rather ruthless about it with his choir, he is willing to accept Ralph as being the elected “chief,” he even goes along with Ralph’s orders for a…
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- SCIENCE
8) ___________________ force is applied over a short period of time when two or more objects…
Number 9. The common name for all gases and liquids is “fluids.” Gases and liquids do have different properties, but they are more similar to each other than they are to solids. Both liquids…
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- GENERAL PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES
Geoffrey Chaucer was both a Medievalist and a Modern. Illustrate from the “General Prologue” of…
Geoffrey Chaucer, as the so-called “father of English poetry,” lived and wrote with one foot in the Middle Ages (Medieval) and the other in the period just preceding the Renaissance. We can…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
With Tom Robinson’s act of attempting escape To Kill a Mockingbird, how can we see that he is…
Under the Jim Crow Laws of the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, the destiny of African-Americans was controlled by whites. Therefore, after having been convicted of a crime by an all-white jury…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird what are Jem Finch’s values, ethics and principles?
In many ways, Jem is a tiny version of Atticus himself. Sure Jem deliberately disobeys Atticus every now and again, but Jem absolutely never wants to disappoint Atticus. “I—it’s like this,…
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- HISTORY
Why were the pilgrims motivated to come to North America?
The Pilgrims were separatists from the established Church of England. This placed them on the radical fringes of groups arguing for religious reform in England in the late sixteenth and early…
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- THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
What is the literary technique used in “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry?
Charles Dickens was the most popular writer in both Britain and America for many years. Editors always wanted material written in the manner of Charles Dickens. It can be seen clearly in O. Henry’s…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What does Jem believe happened to Boo Radley?
This discussion pops up in Chapter 5, when Scout has taken to spending more time with Miss Maudie. The whole neighborhood gossips about Arthur “Boo” Radley’s activities and speculates on where he…
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- SCIENCE
Both procedures rely on high-frequency reflection of sound waves. Both procedures determine the time that it takes for the high-frequency sound waves to hit objects. However, sonar and ultrasound…
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- STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING
Why do you think Frost uses the word “woods” instead of “forest”? How are these two words…
I would say that the word “forest” suggests a large area covered with trees in a natural state; whereas the word “woods” suggests a smaller stand of trees which may be either virgin growth or…
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- THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER
William Blake includes a version of “The Chimney Sweeper” in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of…
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), each containing a version of “The Chimney Sweeper,” are grounded in Blake’s mystical belief system in which the spiritual…
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- A CHRISTMAS CAROL
How are the changes of Scrooge presented in A Christmas Carol?
One might look simply at the changes in Scrooge’s attitude from the beginning of the first visitation to the end of the last. When the ghost of Christmas past suggests that he come and take a walk…
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- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How is Shakespeare still relevant to a modern audience?
Shakespeare is still relevant for a modern audience because the topics he discussed are just as puzzling then as they are now. The topics that Shakespeare addressed in his dramas were universal….
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- LAW AND POLITICS
There are many different kinds of lawyers, so what lawyers do can differ quite a bit. We can go over some general tasks they usually perform, no matter what kind of law is practiced. First and…
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- SCIENCE
Why is it possible to carry out karyotyping only with cells that are about to divide?
During the life cycle of a cell, although chromosomes are always present, at certain times they can be better visualized so that a karyotype can be made. When a cell is not actively dividing, the…
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- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
What does Oberon think about love?
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon acts as both a catalyst for order and disorder, both causing the comedy of errors and resolving it. His perception of love is somewhat…
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- SCIENCE
A PASSENGER , SITTING INSIDE THE TRAIN, IS FACING IN THE DIRECTION OF MOTION OF THE TRAIN .HE…
The train is slowing down. If the train was in uniform motion, then the coin would continue moving with the same speed as the train, and both passenger and coin would move the same distance in…
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- SCIENCE
Is coffee soluble or insoluble?
The roasted coffee bean contains both soluble and insoluble components. You’ve most likely noticed that when you make coffee, some of the compounds from the ground coffee end up in the water,…
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- FRANCIS BACON
Explain these lines from Bacon’s essay ‘Of Great Place’, “Seek to make thy course regular, that…
These lines are about having character but not overselling oneself. “Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect” means that first, you should have values and…
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