What caused the rise of industrial and agricultural conflict in the 1880s and 1890s?

August 24, 2018 Educator

YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

What was Young Goodman Brown supposed to learn from his experience?

Quite honestly, Young Goodman Brown isn’t “supposed” to learn anything. That is the point. Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a character that, from the very first page of the short story, knows that…

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HISTORY

Is ISIS getting bigger and more powerful? Will ISIS come to the U.S.?

In terms of territory, ISIS is actually getting weaker. The so-called caliphate is losing ground thanks to U.S.-led airstrikes and the work of the Iraqi Army. Islamic State is hard to defeat…

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THE GIVER

From Lois Lowry’s The Giver, what is the purpose of the morning injections?

There are no injections in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. The morning injections, however, are shown in the movie adaptation. The book has everyone take pills each morning, but the movie does show Jonas…

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MACBETH

What does Macbeth complain is acting to “shake us nightly”?

Macbeth is telling his wife in Act III, Scene 2 that he is having “terrible dreams” which “shake us nightly.” By “us,” Macbeth is referring to himself in the manner of monarchs. His wife is…

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HISTORY

two instances in which the United States intervened in foreign affairs since the presidency of…

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RICHARD CORY

What literary devices are used in the poem?

“Richard Cory,” a ballad by Edwin Arlington Robinson, tells the story of a rich man who committed suicide. It uses some literary devices that are common in short or long fiction, including first…

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ROMEO AND JULIET

Describe Romeo’s personality.

Early in the play, Romeo is lovelorn and devastated by the news that Rosaline, a young woman for whom he has openly declared his love, has decided to remain chaste, and will not return his…

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THE GREAT GATSBY

In The Great Gatsby, how does Nick get his invitation to Gatsby’s party?

Nick’s invitation to Gatsby’s house in chapter three is hand-delivered by Gatsby’s chauffeur on the Saturday morning of the huge party he will host that evening. Having heard that Gatsby’s guests…

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

Who coined the term sociology?

The term sociology was first coined by Auguste Comte, considered by many the father of sociology, in a series of writings entitled Course on Positive Philosophy, published in six volumes between…

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THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Helen said “I cannot make notes during the lectures, because my hands are busy listening.”…

Because Helen could not see or hear, she was unable to watch her professors as they talked or and she could not hear their lectures. When in class, Helen always had to have a person finger spell…

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MACBETH

How does Macbeth feel toward his friend Banquo?

Macbeth’s feeling towards Banquo change drastically through the course of the play. In the early scenes, Banquo and Macbeth fight side by side to defeat the forces of Ireland and MacDonald. They…

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SCIENCE

If you began with 24 moles of Fe2O3, how many moles of pure iron would be formed as a product?

Hematite (Fe2O3) ore is used to produce pure iron metal by using coke. In the blast furnace, coke converts to carbon monoxide. The overall reaction is given as: Fe2O3+3CO→2Fe+3CO2Fe2O3+3CO→2Fe+3CO2…

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SCIENCE

3.46 moles of C3H8 are burned in a room with excess oxygen gas. How many moles of carbon dioxide…

The balanced chemical reaction for this reaction is given as: C3H8+5O2→3CO2+4H2OC3H8+5O2→3CO2+4H2O When propane (C3H8) is burned in the presence of excess oxygen, carbon dioxide and water are…

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SAPPHO

What are the themes and topics of Sappho’s poetry?

The themes and topics of the poems penned by the ancient Greek poetess Sappho mainly focused on her personal issues, women, and love. She shied away from writing about gods or contemporary…

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

What is the effect of Scrooges fiancée referring to money as a golden idol in “A Christmas Carol”?

Belle’s discussion of Scrooge’s love for money serves to explain how he ended up lonely and miserly. In some ways, we have more sympathy for Scrooge as a result of learning that his fiancé…

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INDIAN CAMP

Trace Nick’s loss of innocence in Hemingway’s short story “Indian Camp.”

“Indian Camp” is the first of several short stories by Ernest Hemingway about the character Nick Adams. Nick is basically Hemingway’s alter ego and many of the events in the stories are…

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ENDER’S GAME

Who is Ender and what makes him different?

Andrew “Ender” Wiggen, is the protagonist and ultimately, the hero, of the novel. Set in the future, the story opens with the search for a child who can be trained into a perfect soldier for…

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A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” how important is the southern setting for understanding the…

The Southern setting is very important to the story for a few reasons. First off, the “good man” the grandmother keeps talking about seems to be the sort of person from the past, and not…

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

What is the difference between symbolic interactionism and macro perspectives (functionalist and…

The major difference between symbolic interactionism and the two macro-level perspectives in sociology is that the macro-level perspectives look at large chunks of society or at society as a…

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MATH

Which point is an x-intercept of the quadratic functionf(x) = (x + 6)(x – 3)?

Hello! An x-intercept of a function is a point x where the graph of a function intersects the x-axis. Such a points have the y-coordinate equal to zero. Different functions may have zero, one, two…

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JULIUS CAESAR

Julius Caesar: what was Mark Antony’s aim at Caesar’s funeral oration?

Antony’s aim is to start a mutiny which will drive the conspirators out of Rome and enable him and Octavius to seize power in the city. He had that intention at the time he humbly asked Brutus for…

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CHEMISTRY

My teacher asked me to write a theory and discussion about an acid base titration. The procedure…

Acid-base titration is a chemical method to determine the concentration of either the acid or the base. It is based on the fact that acid and base neutralize each other completely. This reaction…

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SCIENCE

Which chemical is used to produce anti-iron properties in copper ?

I think you must be mistaken with your phrase “anti-iron.” I have never heard of this phrase before. A quick search around the internet shows absolutely no credible mention of the phrase…

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BUSINESS

What is the easiest way to make money from the stock market?

The fluctuations of the stock market are largely unpredictable. Indeed, there is a theory called the efficient market hypothesis which says that they are completely unpredictable, because all…

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THE MONKEY’S PAW

How does the way in which Herbert’s personality is described foreshadow that misfortune might…

Because Herbert is rather flippant about the monkey’s paw and its magical powers, it seems that something may happen to prove him wrong. After the sergeant who has brought the monkey’s paw and…

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THE MONKEY’S PAW

Does “The Monkey’s Paw” demonstrate that it is human nature to try and achieve more using short…

The Whites do not believe that the paw is real when they first use it. It is human nature to try to cut corners, or put in as little effort as possible to achieve success. The White family seem…

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HISTORY

How did the Wade-Davis plan differ from the Ten Percent Plan?

The Wade-Davis Bill was a Congressional response to Lincoln’s fairly lenient Ten Percent Plan. By December of 1863, the Civil War was still raging, but Union troops had already occupied virtually…

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THE NECKLACE

“The Necklace,” a short story by Guy de Maupassant, narrates the tale of a beautiful young woman…

In the short story The Necklace, the only one of those choices that falls into the exposition is the last one: she finds out she has an invitation to the ball. The exposition is where the…

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HISTORY

Explain what King means when he talks about a “lonely island” and an “ocean” in his “I Have a…

In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the metaphor of an island and a lonely sea to emphasize how African Americans were set apart from the rest of society. They did…

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MACBETH

What does it mean that Macbeth killed the sleep itself in Macbeth?

Macbeth murdered Duncan and the guards as they slept, and now he feels bad about it. Macbeth is already a bit delusional at this point. He was nervous about committing the murders, and once he did…

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RIP VAN WINKLE

Why are Rip’s political views suddenly so unfavorable?

When Rip falls asleep, the colonies are firmly under British control, the situation seems unlikely to change, life is slow-moving, and Rip enjoys visiting the Inn, where he can hang out on a bench…

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PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLANATIONS

Why are people here?

The question can be considered from many angles- how did you come to be here, what is your purpose here? Even “here” is relative and could refer to existence in general, or specifically why you are…

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JULIUS CAESAR

What arguments did Antony use to convince the audience that Caesar was not ambitious in Julius…

Antony told the audience that Caesar loved them and left them money. In Antony’s famous funeral oration, he whips the crowd into a frenzy. His main objective is to convince them that Brutus and…

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SCIENCE

In which layer of earth do people live?

People live on the outermost layer of Earth called the crust. There are three main layers of Earth. The three main layers of Earth are the crust, the mantle, and the core. A brief description of…

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ENDER’S GAME

In Ender’s Game, in what categories is Ender’s army ranked first after their first battle?

Ender’s Game is the first book in Orson Scott Card’s Ender Wiggins series. The story follows Ender, a pre-teen boy who has been tapped as a future commander for Earth’s space army fighting…

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OF MICE AND MEN

How are women “dangerous” in Of Mice and Men?

John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, women are “dangerous” because they distract men from their purposes and act as temptresses who cause conflict. It is interesting that in Steinbeck’s…

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HAMLET

Is the Queen aware of her son’s guilt or is she convinced that Hamlet killed Polonius in a fit of…

At the end of Scene 2 in Act 3, Hamlet speaks the following lines: Soft! now to my mother!O heart, lose not thy nature; let not everThe soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.Let me be cruel, not…

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TWELVE ANGRY MEN

Which version of Twelve Angry Men–the film made in 1957 or in 1997–truly captures the prejudice…

The 1957 movie Twelve Angry Men is the more powerful performance and better depicts the natures of the individual jurors and their biases. In a review for this movie, the critics’ consensus is…

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SCIENCE

A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a speed of 27.3 m/s from a height of 2.0 m. How long…

Consider the two parts of the ball’s motion separately. First, the ball is traveling upward. Since the initial velocity is directed up, and the gravitational acceleration is directed down, the ball…

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THE WOMAN IN WHITE

Why is The Woman in White considered to be the first detective novel?

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins may not be the first detective novel ever written, chronologically, but it is certainly one of the earliest. The earliest Western mystery novel is probably E….

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GAMES AT TWILIGHT

Describe the garden in which the children are playing hide and seek.

There isn’t a lot of textual description regarding the garden in “Games at Twilight.” The main focus of the “nature” description is about the weather. It is hot. Really hot. Their faces were…

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REFERENCE

What are some affective ways to combat poverty? Please explain your answer.

This is a complex problem with many solutions. Many disagree and possible solutions are always controversial. Here are a few areas that get a lot of discussion. Education: Many who live in poverty…

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SCIENCE

You throw a stone straight upward with initial speed 15 m/s. If you want to throw a second stone…

In order to answer this question, let’s first analyze the motion of the stone with the initial speed of 15 m/s, the first stone. The time it will take the stone to reach the peak (the highest…

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A MODEST PROPOSAL

In “A Modest Proposal,” how will the narrator’s plan impact the abortion and murder rate of…

The narrator argues that his plan for the poor to raise and fatten their babies to be sold as food for the tables of the rich will have the positive impact of lowering both the abortion rate and…

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THE GREAT GATSBY

What are some quotes from The Great Gatsby that show the idea of the American Dream?

One of the main themes of The Great Gatsby is the idea of the American Dream – what it is, how to achieve it, what happens when one achieves it (or doesn’t), and what it implies for America….