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August 17, 2018 Educator

RELIGION

Did Martin Luther consider himself to be closer to God than catholic priests?

I definitely think that Martin Luther considered himself closer to God than catholic priests. As with most any conflict people have with one another, each party believes that they are correct, or…

HEALTH

How is ebola spread?

Hemorrhagic fever is transmitted when an individual comes in contact with bodily fluids and secretions from an infected individual, through mucous membranes like those in the eyes, mouth and nose…

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LAW AND POLITICS

What are the some of the best schools to attend if I want to practice international law?

These are some suggestions from personal experience and from others’ personal experience: 1. Yale – it’s one school that will never fail you. 2. Harvard – another school that will not fail you. 3….

SOCIAL SCIENCES

How relevant are Freud’s findings to psychology today?

Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis whose ideas and theories were so advanced in the 1900s that they were nothing short of revolutionary. In the modern context however, Freud’s findings…

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BUSINESS

What is the most popular business model used for running small businesses?

The most popular business model used for running small businesses would be to set up a person to person exchange. For most small businesses, it would be great to advertise their products by…

ARTS

What are the major movements in art?

There have been many major art movements throughout history. Some are more recognizable to the average person than others (such as the High Renaissance as opposed to Neoclassicism), however, all…

MATH

What is a good way for me to remember the quadratic formula?

Here are some other funny/ clever ways to memorize the quadratic formula. I personally learned it by the “Pop Goes the Weasel” song, as other commenters mentioned, but hope these videos help!…

LITERATURE

What is a novel that would depict the era leading up to the Civil War?

These are all great answers. I definitely agree that Uncle Tom’s Cabin depicts the scene of slavery leading up to the Civil War well. Since slavery was a large part of the Civil War, Uncle Tom’s…

MATH

Determine using Simpson’s rule.

Simpson’s rule can be used to determine approximate values of definite integrals. The formula for In the integral , the…

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SCIENCE

What’s a good idea for a high school science fair project?

First, consider the rubric or criteria by which your project will be judged and use that to guide your choice of topics. If I were trying to engage my audience, which is a major part of a science…

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HISTORY

What led to the end of the Civil War?

In essence, the war was over before it started. The South did not have the resources or manpower to fight a long sustained war which soon became a battle of attrition. The end of the war,…

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LITERATURE

Can someone give me a stanza by stanza analysis for Stephen Crane’s poem “The Impact of a dollar…

Stephen Crane’s poetry was before its time: modern, satirical, full of paradox, free of convention. To a reader in 1899, it didn’t look or sound like poetry–more like the stuff of crazed fortune…

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MATH

Trevor and Marissa together have 26 t-shirts to sell. If Marissa has 6 fewer t – shirts than…

To solve this problem efficiently our best method is to create equal equations then solve for any information we can. Lets define our variables as: T = Amount of shirts Trevor has. M = Amount of…

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MATH

you have $1000 to invest in an account with a rate 8%, compounded semi-annually. How long will it…

How long will it take to double an initial investment of 1,000 if you are paid 8% interest, and the interest is applied semiannually. Use the formula Here A(t) represents…

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ROMEO AND JULIET

Can anyone help with some songs that relate to how Rosaline felt about Romeo?

Rosaline has “forsworn love,” according to Romeo, and refuses his advances. Romeo is infatuated with Rosaline to the point of obsession. It is possible that Rosaline is not attracted to Romeo or…

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CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE

How would one describe in a detailed analysis what pragmatism is according to Charles Sanders…

To be able to write a critical analysis of pragmatism, one must first fully understand Charles Sanders Peirce’s philosophy. Then, one can think critically about the philosophy to see how strong the…

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THE STORY OF AN HOUR

To what historical issue is “The Story of an Hour” responding?

At one level, Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” seems to be one of the first examples of feminist literature, as it is an attempt to expose the plight of married women at the end of the 19thC., who…

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OF MICE AND MEN

Why does Steinbeck choose this moment to kill off Curley’s wife?

Throughout the novel, the tension surrounding George and Lennie’s arrival to the ranch has been building. Curly, a hothead, is constantly comparing himself to the men on the ranch. He is…

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POETRY

Could I please have a critical analysis of the poem After a Warrant Sale from Liz Lochhead?

Liz Lochhead is Scotland’s national poet or Makar and her poetry is reflective of her surroundings, experiences and many of the issues affecting women. She does not shy away from controversy, using…

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REFERENCE

I need help on writing half a page about it. Think about the issue of deception in research….

In the strict sense of the term “ethics in research involving human subjects,” there really is no provision for concealing the identity of the individual or organization conducting the research…

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THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

In Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, Holmes pays his friend to strip Julia’s body and…

Erik Larson’s nonfiction account of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition – a type of world’s fair – and the serial killer who haunted it, The Devil in the White City, provides…

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THE BLIND ASSASSIN

In what ways and to what effect does Margaret Atwood explore class in The Blind Assassin?

As children, Iris and Laura experience the loss of their family fortune. The Great Depression negatively affects their father’s button business and Iris is pressured by her father to marry Richard…

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MACBETH

In Macbeth, how does unrestrained ambition destroy Macbeth’s devotion to his country? Please…

In the Elizabethan world of the Chain of Being, Macbeth’s “vaulting ambition” that drives him to regicide leads to cosmic chaos as he murders a semi-divine monarch at the head of the hierarchical…

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A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS

What are the main ideas that come up in the beginning of the book “A Tale of Love and Darkness”?

At the beginning of this novel, Oz describes what it’s like to grow up between cultures. He lives in Israel yet identifies with European intellectual culture, particularly Russian novelists like…

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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

In what ways do we see the wilderness and civilization come into conflict in The Adventures of…

The conflict between the wilderness and civilization is most apparent in the descriptions of Jackson’s Island, to which Huck initially retreats, and, of course, the mighty Mississippi river down…

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RELIGION

What is a hypothesis that explores the religion-state relationship between Nazi Germany and…

The relationship of Nazism to religion is complicated. The personification of Nazism, of course, was Adolf Hitler, the architect of perhaps the blackest period in human history. Much, of course,…

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

In To Kill A Mockingbird, who are the Mrunas and why are they interesting to the missionary circle?

In To Kill A Mockingbird, the reader is very familiar with the conflict between actually doing good and having the appearance of doing good. There are many people in Maycomb County who appear to do…

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MATH

If a ball is thrown into the air with a velocity of 40 ft/s, its height in feet seconds later is…

A ball is thrown into the air with an initial velocity of 40 ft/s vertically upwards. t seconds after it has been thrown up, the height of the ball is given by the function ….

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THE MOON IS DOWN

How do the weather and the seasons represent things in the story? For example, late summer,…

Frequently, authors employ the literary device of pathetic fallacy in which nature is used to create atmosphere or the tone of the narrative. Steinbeck certainly uses this literary technique; even…

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

In To Kill A Mockingbird-ch. 17, Why does Atticus ask Bob Ewell if he knows how to write? Also,…

In Ch. 17, Atticus is trying to prove that Tom Robinson did not beat Mayella. Mayella and Bob are claiming that Tom Robinson beat and raped Mayella. She says that she had bruising on the right…

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Why did Dill start crying?

During the trial, all of the children (Scout, Jem, and Dill) are exposed to the harshness of the world for the first time. Until the trial, good and evil seemed as clear as black and white, and…

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ESSAY LAB

can someone help me correct my mistakes in this essay?…

First of all, your basic organization is quite good. The introductory paragraph needs some fixing and the body paragraphs need revision, which is mostly because this is obviously written in a…

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THE RUNNER

What is Chapter 9 of Cynthia Voigt’s novel The Runner about?

As Chapter 8 of Cynthia Voigt’s novel The Runner comes to a close, Bullet has just been instrumental in defusing a potential race riot in the cafeteria, in so doing planting the seeds of a viable…

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THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER

In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” how do Tom’s house and carriage reflect his character?

Washington Irving’s satire on the religious hypocrisy and the avarice of the Puritans has the main character Tom Walker enter into a contract with the Devil in return for a fortune. As part of the…

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THE RUNNER

who is tamer?

If you mean The Runner by Cynthia Voight, then Tamer refers to Tamer Shipp. Tamer is an African American student who joins the track team of which the main character, Bullet Tillerman, is a…

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

What does Atticus do in court that the children never saw him do even at home?

In court, Atticus loosens his tie and collar before giving his closing argument. “He unbuttoned his vest, unbuttoned his collar, loosened his tie, and took off his coat.” Usually when someone does…

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SONG OF MYSELF

How does “The Bather” by Walt Whitman celebrate his love for the human body and all humanity?…

“The Bather” is the most erotic of Whitman’s poems; it is also of note that he does not have any poem that describes the same actions with nude women; for this reason and others, some critics feel…

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RELIGION

What encoding, storage, and retrieval processes could have contributed to the writers of Matthew,…

Your question concerning the accuracy of the Gospels is an interesting one. Among divinity scholars, the predominant opinion is that the Gospels were in fact not attempting to create an accurate…

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FAHRENHEIT 451

What did Montag do in the old lady’s attic?

In the old lady’s attic, Montag does the unthinkable: he steals a book. In Montag’s world, books are outlawed and burned. It is Montag’s job to burn the books. This makes his actions even more…

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GROWTH OF THE SOIL

In the novel Growth of the Soil, what is Knut Hamsun’s perception of Nature? Did he think Nature…

Throughout his writing career, Hamsun sought to portray the beauty and virtue of nature and tradition, particularly as it was being undermined by industrialization and modernity at the turn of the…

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BURIED CHILD

How does Sam Shepard use postmodernism in Buried Child?

A significant aspect of Postmodernism is to offer a critique of the traditional meta- narrative structures. Shepard’s play uses this in several ways. One way in which Postmodernism is used is in…

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MATH

A 1600 lb elevator is suspended by a 200-ft cable that weighs 10 lb/ft. How much work is required…

Take note that the work done by the force F(x) in moving an object from x=a to x=b is given by: To apply this to the problem above, let x be the amount of cable that has been…

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MATH

Find the average value of the function on the interval [0, 10]

Find the average value of on the interval [0,10]: The average value of an integrable function on an interval [a,b] is defined as : So we find:

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MATH

Find the average value of the function f(t) = t sin(t^2) on the interval [0, 10]

The average value of an integrable function on an interval [a,b] is defined as: Find the average value of on [0,10]:

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MATH

A force of 30 N is required to maintain a spring stretched from its natural length of 12 c to a…

The force required to maintain a spring stretched by the length is determined by the formula , where k is a constant depending on the properties of the spring and…