What is Clarisse’s motivation?
- FAHRENHEIT 451
What is Clarisse’s motivation?
Clarisse is the teenage neighbor Montag meets when he is beginning to question the structure of the society around him. She befriends him, and seems to be motivated by nothing more than a human…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What are Jem’s strengths and weaknesses in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird? Also, if upi know his…
Jem’s weaknesses are mostly evident at the beginning of the novel, when he is still a child. He makes fun of others including Scout and Dill, and initiates rather hurtful, childish games based on…
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- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Why does Manette use the 3rd person in talking about himself when Mr. Lorry discusses the…
In Chapter 18 of Book the Second of A Tale of Two Cities, after the wedding day of Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette, a day on which Darnay reveals his true identity to Doctor Manette, the burden of…
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- OTHELLO
What scene and act did Iago convince Othello to get drunk in Othello?
While Iago certainly persuades Othello to think and do many things, I think that you might have meant, “In what scene and act does Iago convince Cassio to get drunk?” That is a much more…
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- REFERENCE
How to redeem premium tokensHi, I just became a member yesterday. I am trying to redeem my…
I am not sure either. I am getting a lot of tokens and I’m not sure how to use them and I cannot find it in the help section either. Do they allow us to download tests and documents for free?
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- HOW TO READ LITERATURE CRITICALLY
On “How to read literature like a professor” by Thomas C. Foster, what is his (the author’s)…
In my mind, Foster’s primary thesis is for students to grasp the role of intertextuality in literature. Foster introduces this as a critical point in understanding both his main ideas, but in…
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- ARTS
Who influenced Sean Kingston’s music?
Besides the obvious influence of Jamaican music elements upon his songs, Kingston has said in interviews that he loves the style of Motown Oldies from the 50s and 60s. If you listen to “Beautiful…
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- HISTORY
How did the railroad influence the miners, ranchers, farmers, and Indians?Unit 6 (The Closing of…
Seeing that your answer is supposed to come from a textbook, I would go to that source as the primary basis for your answer. Certainly, you can take others’ thoughts, but if there is a textbook…
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- SCIENCE
Lockjaw is caused from the tetanus toxin Clostridium tetani which produces a neurotoxin that has an affinity for skeletal muscle. This toxin is found almost everywhere in the environment….
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- THE KITE RUNNER
In The Kite Runner, does Ali know that Hassan is not his son?
Although Hosseini never directly writes that Ali knows about Hassan’s true parentage, he implies that Ali most likely would have known. When Rahim Khan tells Amir the truth about Baba and…
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- SCIENCE
Are lumbar punctures really necessary?Aren’t they painful?
Unfortunately some medical procedures are very painful but also very necessary. As far as an LP (lumbar puncture, old term/spinal tap) goes they can be quite uncomfortable. There are a couple of…
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- GRAMMAR
Vivid verbs ?Rewrite the following paragraph using as many vivid verbs as you can. When I woke…
When I sprang up that morning, everyone else in the house had vanished. I didn’t detect any sounds of life. I ran through a shower, leapt into my clothes, and bounded downstairs to the kitchen. I…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In To Kill a Mockingbird, I need to find examples of assonance and hyperbole.
Assonance is repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words. There is an example of assonance in the first line of the novel: “When he was nearly thirteen…” The vowel sounds in “he”, in…
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- THE FIGHTING GROUND
what main point would the author like to get across to the reader
Avi shows that Jonathan romanticized the war. He is thirteen and he desperately wants to go to war. However, once he gets there, it is a different story. He sees men die and children orphaned….
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- THE EGYPT GAME
What is the problem, and the events leading to ther resolutinon in The Egypt Game?
The problem is that how April can survive through all without her mom’s help, even though Dorothea abandoned her. The resolution is when Carolyn starts being nice and in the end, April and her gran…
- LAW AND POLITICS
There are a couple of possible answers here. Len Bias was a really good basketball player who was the first pick in the 1986 NBA draft. But before he actually got to the NBA, he died of a cocaine…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
If someone knows they are HIV positive and doesn’t tell the partner can they face criminal charges?
If a person is aware that they are HIV positive and if they have unprotected sexual intercourse vaginally or otherwise and they do not tell their sexual partner before the act they can be charged…
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- GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
What major factor of unification allows for a smooth flow of technology and crops from all parts…
I assume that you are talking about what Diamond discusses in the Epilogue — why China and the rest of East Asia were so unified while Western Europe, in particular, was so disunified. Diamond…
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- THE WEDNESDAY WARS
What three adjectives describe Holling Hoodhood in the book Wednesday Wars?
This is an interesting question, because, due to the changes that the character of Holling Hoodhood goes through in the course of the narrative, the adjectives that would best describe him change…
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- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Describe the three “courtships” of Lucie as protrayed in Book the Second, Chapters 10-16 in A…
The three men who desire to court Lucie Manette are C.J. Stryver, Sydney Carton, and Charles Darnay. C.J. Stryver, a lawyer, is a man with an extremely and unrealistically high opinion of himself….
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- A SEPARATE PEACE
In A Separate Peace, why does Gene stress the “presence of mind” exhibited by everybody after…
As the narrator, Gene thinks about others’ presence of mind for several reasons. First, when Finny suffers his second devastating fall (in Chapter 12, the fall is down a staircase), it is obvious…
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- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
Was it wise for Mary to deceive her husband into thinking she was an obedient wife ‘‘Lamb to…
I think you can argue this in two ways. You can say it was bad for her because he would not have divorced her if she had acted more assertively or you can say it was wise for her because it…
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- GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
Why were Europeans able to replace the Aboriginal Australians but not the natives of New…
The answer to this can be found on and after p. 317 in my copy of the book, towards the end of Chapter 15. There are two main reasons why Europeans were not able to (or did not choose to) replace…
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- SCIENCE
Could mythology be considered a science or is it more of a sub-genre of theology?I just want to…
One of my favorite books is Kazuo Ishiguro’s “An Artist of the Floating World.” Part of the reason I love this book is because of its title. The artist in a world of their own creation that…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
foodlive to eat or eat to live?discuss
Hah. This is a hillarious question. I’m going to take it in three directions: 2nd and 3rd world countries that are very much comprised of starvation and poverty could be in the “Eat to Live”…
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- MATH
The line joining the points A(2,t) & B(7,2t^2+7) has a gradient of 2. Find possible values of…
A(2,t) B(7, 2t^2 + 7) We knwo that the gradient of AB = 2 ==> mAB = 2 ==> (2t^2 +7 – t)/(7-2) = 2 ==? (2t^2 -t +7)/5 = 2 ==> 2t^2 -t + 7 = 10 ==> 2t^2 – t – 3 = 0 ==> t1 = [1 +…
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- FREAK THE MIGHTY
What is Chapter 1 about in the book Freak the Mighty?
Chapter One of Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty serves as a prologue to the tale, providing background information about the title character; the narrator, Max; and Max’s grandparents, Gram and…
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- DANTE’S INFERNO
What are the personal and universal elements in Dante’s Inferno?
I think that the personal elements featured in Dante’s work are very close to the universal ones. Dante, as a pilgrim, is struggling with his own mid life crisis and his own loss amongst the…
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- BUSINESS
1000 new hires.Make or buy furniture? Purchase for $2000 each. Materials cost $500 per desk,labor…
If 1000 desks are purchased the cost is 2000*1000=2,000,000 A learning curve of 90% means that if the cost of manufacture of the 2Nth product is 10% less than that of the Nth product. Here the…
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
What are the major political issues that Venezuela faces today?
To me, the major issue that faces Venezuela is whether it wants to be a democracy or whether it wants to be a dictatorship in the style of Cuba. All other issues are, to me, secondary to this…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
In Fahrenheit 451, why does Montag feel “fat”?
This is something that Guy says to Millie when he is trying to describe why he does not feel contented. I believe that it is somewhat of a metaphor. He is doing two things. First, he is saying…
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- THE WASTE LAND
Why does Eliot use St. Augustine and Buddha concurrently in The Waste Land?
This is a fairly powerful question on a very intense work sample. I am not sure any one person can claim to have “the answer” for any question in a work like Eliot’s, so be warned on this front….
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
In Fahrenheit 451, describe the relationship between Montag and his wife.
To me, this relationship is very one sided. Guy Montag clearly cares about Millie, but she does not care about him. You can see this in the way that they treat each other. Guy is very concerned…
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- THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Could you explain the symbols in The Old Man and the Sea by Heminway?
Hemingway said: No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. … I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real…
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- THE VELDT
In “The Veldt,” how do the parents’ awareness of what is going on in the playroom create tension…
From the story’s beginning when Lydia mentions her concerns to her husband George about the children’s nursery, Bradbury creates tension between George and Lydia. George believes that the nursery…
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- BUSINESS
Write a short note on HRD strategy model in human resources management
The human resources function in an enterprise is concerned with ensuring that an organization is able to acquire, retain and use the human resources required by it effectively and efficiently. It…
- WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Describe how grief make Heathcliff behave in the garden?
You can read about this in Chapter 16. Heathcliff is out in the garden outside Catherine’s window while she is giving birth to young Catherine. Catherine dies two hours later. Heathcliff’s mourning…
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- SCIENCE
What are all the functions of atrial natriuretic peptide?
Atrial natriuretic factor produces atrial natriuretic peptide which secretes atrial natriuretic hormones. These hormones are secreted by the atria of the heart, the top 2 chambers of the…
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- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
In Tale of Two Cities, why does Jarvis Lorry pretend that Dr. Manetter’s illness has happened to…
Mr. Lorry is speaking to Dr. Manette, the afflicted himself when inquiring about the illness which he delicately indicates has happened to a fictional “friend.” Dr. Manette is in too fragile a…
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- DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Could betrayal be a theme both shared by Arthur Miller’s Death of Salesman and Ibsen’s Hedda…
In a broad sense of the word, betrayal could apply to the cause of each of these protagonists’ suicide. In other words, each character is betrayed by the society in which he/she lives. Willy…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
What are the top languages spoken in Venezuela?
The national language of Venezuela is Spanish. Numerous other indigenous languages are also spoken by a small percentage of the population.
- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, how does Elizabeth demonstrate her wit in the qoute below…
First, let me address the above post by saying that this quote is not an example of sarcasm, but rather of ironic wit. The difference between sarcastic wit and ironic wit, is that sarcasm is…
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- MATH
Which are the values of x in the interval (0,360) if sinx = -1/2 ?
sinx = -1/2 ==> x = pi/6 = 30 degress The sine is negative in both third and fourth quadrants; ==> x1= 180 + 30 = 210 degrees ==> x2 = 360 – 30 = 330 degrees.
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- MATH
How many solutions has the sistem of equations y=-x^2-2x+6 y= x^2+2x+1
y= -x^2 -2 x + 6…….(1) y= x^2 + 2x +1………(2) Buth (1) = (2) ==>- x^2 -2x + 6 = x^2 + 2x +1 Group similar: ==> 2x^2 + 4x -5 = 0 ==> x1= [-4 + sqrt(16+40)/4 = (-4 + sqrt56)/4 = -1
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- MATH
Determine m if the polynomial P is divisible by x-3. P=x^3+mx^2+3mx-9
P= x^3 + mx^2 + 3mx -9 P is dividible by (x-3) Then (x-3) is one of P’s factors, and 3 is one of the roots for P. ==> P(x) = (x-3)*Q(x) ==> P(3) = 0 P(3) = 3^3 + m(3^2) + 3m(3) – 9 = 0 ==>…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
In legal terms, defiant trespass is more or less what we would normally think of as just plain trespass. That is, defiant trespass is when one person goes into a place where he or she is not…
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- SCIENCE
Why would a person taking a diuretic need to take potassium?
Diuretics act on the renal tubles (target organ), to increase urinary output. Increased urine output means that substances that are lost in the urine are also lost in increased amounts. Some…
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- MATH
Determine sina and cosa if cota=3. a belongs to (0;pi)
cota = 3 But cota = cosa/ sina = 3 ==> cos a = 3sin a But sin^2 a + cos^2 a = 1 ==> cos a = sqrt(1-sin^2 a) ==> sqrt(1-sin^2 a ) = 3sin a Square both sides: ==> 1- sin^2 a = 9sin^2 a…
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- MATH
Given that lna*lna^2=9 if u*v=u+v+6, calculate a.
To solve the equation lna*lna^2 =9. Given composition is u*v=u+v+6. Solution: We write the equation using the composition: lna+lna^2 +6 = 9 lna*a^2 = 9, as lnx +lny = lnxy. ln(a^3) = 9 = ln e^9 So…
- MATH
Determine a from the equation a*a=-4 if a*b=ab+5(a+b)+21 .
a*a = -4 a*b = ab + 5(a+b) + 21 Now let us substitutw with a: a*a = a^2 + 5(a+a) + 21 = a^2 + 10a + 21 = -4 ==> a^2 + 10a + 25 = 0 Now factor: ==> (a+5)^2 = 0 ==> a = -5
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