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HISTORY
Martin Luther King, Jr was a third-generation pastor. This had a profound effect on his involvement in the civil rights movement, which was, at least until the late 1960s, centered on…
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THE TEMPEST
Starting with situational resemblances, Edmund and Antonio are both younger brothers who are angry and jealous that they are not in a position to inherit the titles and lands that rightly go to…
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TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN
One of the morals of the story is that it’s not always necessary to be in control of our lives. One of Aza’s biggest problems is that she always feels that she’s somehow losing control. She’s…
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SO MUCH WATER SO CLOSE TO HOME
Claire is portrayed as being distant from her husband, Stuart. Though married to each other, they might as well be strangers, so remote are they from each other emotionally. As the story unfolds,…
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LITERATURE
The poem can be seen as an allegory in which the albatross represents Christ and in which redemption and resurrection can also be identified. I see the poem more clearly as a parable, but neither…
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LITERATURE
When analyzing any type of literature, poetic or prose, one must concern himself or herself with basic analyzing skills. To analyze a text, one must examine numerous different aspects: Diction: the…
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RELIGION
At first glance, John Henry Newman and Viktor Frankl seem like very different thinkers. Newman, an English scholar who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, largely lived an…
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THE GREAT GATSBY
I would say Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby and Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman have the strongest faith in free will of all the characters in these works. Both believe very strongly in the…
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Both Mariana in Measure for Measure and Emilia in Othello are good women who happen to be either betrothed to (Mariana) or married to (Emilia) miserable, unethical men. Mariana is betrothed to…
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
Communication is a process by which meaning is conveyed through messages. The messages can be either verbal or nonverbal, and they can be transmitted in a variety of contexts that effect how the…
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Holism in anthropology is the view that all aspects associated with human beings are interconnected. This concept holds that the mind, body, and the environment are all interrelated, and one cannot…
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THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Plot structure in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is basically chronological with many flashbacks interspersed throughout. One distinct feature of the plot is that the story begins in…
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SCIENCE
I am not sure what branch of the sciences that this question is targeted at. It could be asking for an example from any of the sciences, or it could be specifically looking for the answer to be…
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HISTORY
I can offer a quick rundown of ten important and influential women who have made impacts since the Civil War in various fields. There are many more. Jane Addams used her wealth to start a…
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THE ORNAMENT OF THE WORLD
The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal is the story of a young prince named Abd al-Rahman who fled his home in Damascus, Syria and traveled across the desert and to establish a kingdom on…
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BRAVE NEW WORLD
Huxley gives us a picture of a world in which the ordinary problems of life as we know it have seemingly been eliminated through scientific planning and the use of drugs. But selective breeding…
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JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE
Mattie Campbell turns up at the boarding house looking for Bynum. The old man has a reputation for being a folk magician, and Mattie wants him to use his reputed special powers to help bring back…
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LITERATURE
There are a lot of questions here about Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I find question nine the most interesting: “Why do you think the author did not provide names for his characters?” I hope my…
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THE GREAT GATSBY
A common theme among these texts is the idea of fate and free will. Each text examines whether human beings are masters of their fates, or whether they are predestined to make the choices they do….
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LITERATURE
The first part of T.H. White’s King Arthur texts The Once and Future King chronicles the legendary hero’s childhood as Wart, the nickname a young Sir Kay bestowed upon his foster brother. The…
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THE GREAT GATSBY
The main theme of The Great Gatsby is the death of the American Dream, with that dream’s focus on exploration, individuality, and the pursuit of happiness. In Gatsby’s world (and, arguably, the…
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HISTORY
The relationship between the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Asia and the European imperial powers is far more complex than what is often demonstrated in movies and…
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LITERATURE
Jake, who has been rendered impotent from a wound received in World War I, loves Brett, but can’t consummate the relationship. Brett takes lovers, but Jake becomes particularly upset and jealous…
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A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
In The People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn discusses the issues of slavery in chapter 9, entitled “Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom.” He begins the chapter…
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AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD
Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois tells the story of the Haitian Revolution that unfolded between 1791 and 1804. This quote from the prologue is an excellent summary of the Haitian…
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AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD
In Avengers of the New World, Laurent Dubois tells the story of the Haitian Revolution. On the surface, the Revolution appears to have been a simple slave revolt, but Dubois portrays it as part of…
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AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD
Avengers of the New World is a work of history, even though the author, Laurent Dubois, succeeds in telling the history of Haiti almost in the form of a suspenseful novel. The “characters” are…
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AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD
The major themes of Avengers of the New World can be said to be freedom and leadership. It is a historical work, by Laurent Dubois, that tells the story of the Haitian Revolution that took place…
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AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD
Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois tells the story of the Haitian Revolution, describing Haiti’s history from the French ancien regime (old regime) up to its independence in 1804. The book…
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BRAVE NEW WORLD
As with any question, the answer depends on an interpretation of words, especially in this case, because both “freedom” and “happiness” are relative terms and can be defined differently by…
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THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
Bruno’s character does not significantly evolve from the beginning to the end of the story. He is introduced as and remains a kind-hearted, naïve, innocent child who follows his own unwitting…
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THE WESTING GAME
Ellen Raskin’s Newberry-winning novel The Westing Game follows eight pairs of tenants in Sam Westing’s apartment complex who must compete to solve a puzzle, the winners of which will receive the…
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HISTORY
While I can’t answer this question by explaining things from the perspective of a twenty year old Japanese-American male in 1942, I can provide you with some background information so that you are…
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Tom Sawyer is often described as a static character. While he is indeed complex, Tom does not really experience any growth or change by the end of the novel. After the discovery of Injun Joe’s…
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HISTORY
The Gilded Age brought many changes to the American worker, and the American workforce. The impact of the Gilded Age could be seen across the country. From the decline of small businesses to rapid…
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HISTORY
Following the Civil War, the continued frontier expansion of white settlers forced the Chinese, Hispanic and Native American groups into tightly knit communities. All of these groups banded…
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In the first eleven chapters of the novel, Dill is portrayed as a coward because he fears Jem and Scout’s reclusive neighbor Arthur “Boo” Radley. Like many children in the small town of Maycomb,…
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THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
One day in class, Junior gets incredibly angry at discovering his mother’s name written inside an old geometry book. This tells him straight away that the book is at least thirty years out of date….
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
One scene that shows that this story happens during the Great Depression occurs about fourteen minutes into the movie. In this scene Atticus is tucking Scout into bed. She asks to see his pocket…
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CANDIDE
I think utopias are desirable and that it is instructive to think about them and to try to envision what a better world would be like. That way, it can be possible to correct some of the problems…
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REFERENCE
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola (Pico) was a distinguished Italian, Renaissance philosopher who lived from 1463–1494. His contribution to Renaissance thinking came through his published works,…
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THE SUMMER OF THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE
Aram does know, really, that Mourad, having taken the horse from its owner, has stolen the horse. This is his first thought, although he then tries to justify it because: He wants to be able to…
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THE WEDNESDAY WARS
Regarding your first question as to the implications of Holling’s decisions, we need to start with a decision that has some major impacts on the story, his growth, or his relationship with other…
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GAMES AT TWILIGHT
The first thing to do for this question is to pick a particular symbol. My recommendation is to go with the game of hide-and-seek. I believe that the game is symbolic of life in general. When the…
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LITERATURE
In his poem “Letter From a Contract Writer,” Antonio Jacinto assumes the persona of a lovesick laborer who is working far away from home—and the woman he adores. Diction is defined as word…
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SOCRATES
Socrates was a Greek philosopher and is seen by many as the founding figure of western philosophy. There were philosophers before Socrates (referred to as the pre-Socratics) but no philosopher,…
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GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS
Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov is a prosperous merchant from the Russian town of Vladimir. As the story begins, he’s on his way to the Nizhny Fair, where he hopes to sell his goods and maybe bring back…
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JOHNNY TREMAIN
When Johnny is at the barn dance at the Grandsire’s big barn, he forgets about his deformed hand. The girls he dances with take his hand, and they don’t seem to notice that his hand is misshaped….
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Portia, disguised as a lawyer, gives a speech about mercy in The Merchant of Venice in which she states that the quality of mercy is twice blessed: She says: It is twice blessed: It blesseth him…
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SILAS MARNER
Silas, Eppie, and Aaron are lucky in this novel. Molly Farren is unlucky. Molly is unlucky because she has secretly married Godfrey, who wants to marry Nancy. As Molly, an opium addict, is en route…