What are the characteristics of the major characters of Jerome K. Jerome’s book Three Men
- THE CANTERBURY TALES
How would you describe the Reeve in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer?
The Reeve is one of the characters Chaucer describes in detail during the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales. Physically, Chaucer says the Reeve is “a slender, choleric man” (1) whose legs…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
How is the educational system in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, compared with today’s public…
Harper Lee portrays the educational system in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird as rigid and meaningless. Scout’s first-grade teacher, Miss Caroline, rebukes her for being able to read and write at…
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- THE CITY OF EMBER
Why does Lina decide to show Doon the paper she found in Jeanne DuPrau’s The City of Ember? How…
In chapter 7 of Jeanne DuPrau’s The City of Ember, after Lina salvages what is left of the important-looking piece of paper her baby sister Poppy has chewed up, Lina shows a couple of different…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Is Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird proactive? Why?
Being proactive means that a person prepares to intervene in an expected negative situation. Atticus does this by preparing a fair defense for his client Tom Robinson, who has rape charges against…
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- REFERENCE
What changes do the villagers want to make in honor of Esteban in the short story “The Handsomest…
Despite the fact he is dead, the drowned man who is discovered washed up in a small seaside village is considered like a superman in Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “The Handsomest Drowned…
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- REFERENCE
In Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, what happens to the three friends at Datchet when…
This story is recounted by the narrator in Chapter XII, as a memory from a past river trip. The same three friends had landed at Datchet at 10 p.m. and had wanted to find a place to stay overnight….
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- THE STORY OF MY LIFE
What would be a character sketch of Mr. Gilman from the book “The Story of My Life”?
Mr. Gilman was the principal of the Cambridge School, which Helen Keller attended to prepare for college. It was also called the Gilman School. Though Mr. Gilman was the principal of the school, he…
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- SCIENCE
What system eliminates cellular waste through the lungs, skin, and kidneys?
In humans, the excretory system is responsible for removing cellular waste through the lungs, skin, and kidneys. This system has many functions within the body. It is responsible for filtering and…
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- FRANKENSTEIN
Who is Cornelius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him in Frankenstein?
Mary Shelly’s gothic novel Frankenstein recounts the life of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein through a series of flashbacks that explain his presence through his past. One of these…
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- THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Explain how the theme of appearance vs reality is illustrated in the conversation between…
The conversation between these two occurs in Act 2, scene 2, at the point that Shylock’s servant, Launcelot, has decided to leave his service and work for Bassanio. Shylock has been quite stingy…
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- MACBETH
Why does Macbeth not react to the death of Lady Macbeth badly?
These two people were once very close, but they have been driven apart by their guilt, disillusionment, and growing misery. Near the end of the play they do not even appear together in the same…
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- SCIENCE
What formula do I use when finding the mass and weight of air?
Since air is a gas, its weight will depend upon the volume and pressure in which it is contained.The simplest approach would be to use the ideal gas law, which relates pressure P and volume V to…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Why, in Atticus’s view, was Mrs. Dubose “a great lady?”
Jem despises Mrs. Dubose. She insults Atticus and she is rude to he and Scout. Despite Mrs. Dubose’s cantankerous personality, Atticus refuses to insult or belittle their elderly neighbor….
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- THE SCARLET IBIS
What is so unusual about Doodle?
Lots of things are unusual about Doodle, but probably the easiest unusual trait to identify deals with his physical features. Doodle was born with a physical disability. In fact, most people did…
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- BUSINESS
Discuss the relationship between servant leadership and ethical leadership.
In simplest terms, one is a subset of the other: Servant leadership is one concept of ethical leadership.Ethical leadership in general is the idea that leaders have ethical responsibilities to…
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- SCIENCE
Why must renewable resources be managed?
Our industrial development and growth has largely been fueled by fossil fuels. Our ever-increasing demands coupled with the finite quantity of fossil fuels and their role in climate change has…
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- MENDING WALL
According to the narrator in “Mending Wall,” there are two ways in which a wall is broken. What…
The narrator in Frost’s “Mending Wall” describes in the very beginning of the poem two ways a stone wall can be broken. First, he refers to “something”(line 1), by which he is referring to weather…
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- SCIENCE
Compare and contrast the lithosphere and the asthenosphere.
Both the lithosphere and asthenosphere are part of Earth and are made of similar material. Lithosphere is made up of Earth’s outermost layer, the crust, and the uppermost portion of the mantle. In…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What is Tom’s handicap and what conclusion can we draw because of it?
Chapter 18 is when Tom Robinson’s handicap is revealed. Jem is shocked when he sees it. Reverend Sykes explains what happened to Tom as follows: “He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr….
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- OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE
How does the seemingly small incident described in the story reveal a significant truth about life?
“The Old Man at the Bridge” is set during the Spanish Civil War—the old man is a civilian in loyalist territory; the narrator is a loyalist sympathizer, and it is only a matter of time before…
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- PYGMALION
“Continually unsettling and provoking, even when making us laugh.” How far do you agree with this…
I would agree with this statement, but say the play is probably less unsettling to a modern U.S. audience than an upper-class British audience of a hundred years ago. The play challenges notions of…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
How can I compare and contrast Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130? How are they similar or different when…
In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, the speakers praise the beauty of their lovers through abundant metaphors and figurative imagery that uphold the theme of appearance. In Sonnet…
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- THE BLACK CAT
Who is the protagonist in “The Black Cat”?
Although most people think of a protagonist as the “good guy” or the hero of the story, a protagonist is simply the main character. I have provided a couple of links explaining what a protagonist…
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- HISTORY
What would be a good research question about Christopher Columbus?
A strong research question for Christopher Columbus would be: What impact has the multicultural movement had on the legacy of Christopher Columbus? This question is strong because it is a…
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- THE CRUCIBLE
What five complexities are displayed in Reverend Hale’s character in The Crucible?
Reverend John Hale is one of the most complex characters in the play and goes through a drastic change during the events depicted. In Act One, Hale enters the action as a fully trained and…
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- MATH
optimization models in transportation engineering
Transport Engineering is applying science and technology in designing, planning, operating and managing the facilities of any type of transport to provide safe, efficient. rapid. comfortable and…
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- SCIENCE
You are given a sample of an unknown element. Describe 4 tests or observations you could make to…
You could first test to determine whether the sample conducts heat and electricity. Metals conduct heat and electricity much better than non-metals. To test for electrical conductivity, you could…
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- THE HEART OF A WOMAN
What is the theme of Maya Angelou’s novel The Heart of a Woman?
Maya Angelou’s “The Heart of a Woman” interweaves two stories from Angelou’s life: her coming of age as a black woman/mother and the coming of age of the civil rights movement. The memoir is…
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- JEROME K. JEROME
In Three Men in a Boat by Jerome, the narrator has condemned the “wretched small boats.” How did…
The narrator, J., refers to the “wretched small boats” in Chapter XVI: At Reading lock we came up with a steam launch, belonging to some friends of mine, and they towed us up to within about a…
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- A WHITE HERON
What is the exposition in the story, “A White Heron”?
Exposition refers to the background information on characters, setting, and events that will help readers to understand the story. The exposition in “A White Heron” refers to this kind of…
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- HOLES
Who got punished by God in Holes by Louis Sachar?
In the novel Holes, by Louis Sachar, God is called on to mete out punishment to Katherine and Sam, two characters in the back story. Sam is an African American man and Katherine is a white American…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
In The Great Gatsby, what is the significance of Chapter 1?
In The Great Gatsby, the first chapter introduces us to the narrator, Nick Carraway, as well as acquaints us with the fact that he is narrating the story after it’s occurred, a perspective that…
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- THOMAS HARDY
Discuss Thomas Hardy as a poet hovering between two worlds, the Victorian and the Modern.
I will note a famous Hardy poem, “The Darkling Thrush,” to talk about how Hardy bridged the Victorian and the Modern age. This will involve talking in broad strokes about both eras. In general, the…
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- SCIENCE
What is the difference between TCP/IP and X.25 protocol?
Performance X.25 uses the error recovery procedures at the packet layer which is responsible for retransmitting data received in error. The performance is affected by the long and variable delays….
- SCIENCE
What word is used to describe a solution that is neither acid nor salt?
A solution which is neither an acid nor a salt is a base. When we mix an acid and a base, we obtain a salt. Acids are compounds that can donate a hydrogen ion when mixed in a solution. For…
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- ESSAY LAB
What could I write in a context paragraph in an essay about my daily surroundings?
In a traditional essay, context is an important link between what you believe is interesting to the reader (hook) and your thesis statement (your argument/claim). Context in an introduction should…
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- THE HUNGER GAMES
What materials will help me start writing an essay on The Hunger Games?
Do you know the essay’s prompt already? If you have free reign over the topic of your essay, you should enter your planning period with some questions you will answer in your essay. Think about the…
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- HISTORY
What were the aims of Jefferson’s presidency?
When Thomas Jefferson became President, after the House of Representatives broke the tie between Aaron Burr and Jefferson, he had specific goals he wanted to accomplish as President. Jefferson…
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- BUSINESS
Downgrading South Africa: What would junk status mean for South Africa? In your discussion,…
“Junk bond” is an informal term for a high-risk, high-yield bond. Generally if you get downgraded to “junk status” this means that your credit rating has been lowered so low that you are now only…
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- ANIMAL FARM
What aspect of society is being satirized in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm?
In Animal Farm, Orwell satirizes the people in power in the Stalinist Soviet Union, especially their claims that they differed from the power elite in capitalist countries. Capitalists were…
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- SCIENCE
What is the purpose of an operating system?
In essence, resource sharing.Theoretically, you could have a computer that didn’t use an operating system; indeed, early computers were basically of this form, where every program contained its own…
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- ALL SUMMER IN A DAY
Is it important to the story that we should know what Margot’s thoughts and feelings are?
Since the emotional impact of the story depends on how strongly we identity with her, it is important that we know what Margot’s thoughts and feelings are. What Bradbury tries to do is drive a…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social rule is fundamentally an attempt by human agents to organize and regulate society by establishing a framework that guides individual conduct and interaction. The rules are considered as…
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- SCIENCE
How can I calculate the relative abundance of three isotopes? The letters have nothing to do with…
Denote the abundances in numbers (not percent) as a22,a22, a23a23 and a24.a24.Then if we assume that there are no other isotopes found in nature, a22+a23+a24=1.a22+a23+a24=1. Also, by the definition of…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
Discuss this idea: if I take a copy of something from you and you still have your copy, it is not…
There are at least three different ways to respond to this question: First, we can say that your statement is correct. The situation you describe does not meet legal definitions of theft. As we…
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- THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
What is the significance of the footnotes in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao?
When asked about the importance and role of the footnotes in his book, author Junot Diaz said that he first wanted to create a double narrative, meaning two stories carried on simultaneously. The…
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- SCIENCE
What is the enthalpy for the reaction between Mg and HCl?
Mg reacts with HCl according to this equation: Mg(s)+2HClaq→MgCl2_(aq)+H2_(g)Mg(s)+2HClaq→MgCl2_(aq)+H2_(g) If this reaction takes place under standard conditions the enthalpy change (∆Hº) can be…
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- CHARLES LAMB
What is a summary of the essay “Valentine’s Day”? How can I analyze it?
As the title suggests, this essay is a rumination on Valentine’s Day. Lamb, through his persona Elia, opens by differentiating between the St. Valentine for whom Valentine’s Day is named and other,…
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- MACBETH
How can Macbeth be interpreted as a victim of his time who was misled and manipulated into…
In eleventh-century Scotland, most people would certainly have believed in witches as well as a witch’s ability, in part, to prophesy the future. Therefore, when Macbeth is confronted by the Weird…
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- REFERENCE
What are the characteristics of the major characters of Jerome K. Jerome’s book Three Men in a…
There are four major characters, as noted by the title of the book. All have some boating experience, but none could be considered seasoned seamen. The narrator is referred to as J., but he should…
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