What is the theme of the book Monster?
- THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
How does Usher’s attitude and mood seem to switch back and forth while talking to the narrator in…
Although it is not something that the reader readily notices, Usher does change his attitude and mood many times throughout the story as he speaks to the narrator especially when the two first…
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- MONSTER
What is the theme of the book Monster?
Walter Dean Myer’s book Monster depicts how the American legal system functions. The primary theme of the story is to examine how a person who commits a crime is arrested, convicted, tried, and…
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- RICHARD III
What are Richmond’s thoughts when preparing for battle with Richard, and after meeting the ghosts…
Well, it’s a little bit black and white, even for a history play. Richmond has a few meetings, with Stanley, and with his lords about the plans for the next day’s battle, and goes to sleep with a…
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- THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
What is the meaning of the word “amontillado” in “The Cask of Amontillado”?
Amontillado is a type of wine, specifically, a dry, red sherry, named after the Montilla region of Spain. The reason this is significant, is that a cask of this type of wine is very tempting to…
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- CHEMISTRY
Combustion Analysis, please help me ):After a 0.1156 gram sample of an unknown…
Lets assume the compound to C_xH_yN_z Then by combustion we Will get CO_2,H_2O and NO_2 C_xH_yN_z+(x+y/2+z)O_2——–> xCO_2+(y/2)H_2O+zNO_2 It is given that after combustion H_2O=0.1676g and…
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- MACBETH
When are the three witches to meet again and for what purpose?
The witches first meet in Act 1 scene 1 of Macbeth asking just that question with the famous “When shall we three meet again?” as the Scottish nobility fight and slaughter each other around them….
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- GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS
Hi. I need to know whether there’s a site where I can download freely a paraphrase of As You Like…
Most likely if you want the whole text paraphrased, you’ll have to be the one to do it. By taking the following link, you can see each scene within each act and figure it out from there. There…
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- GOTHIC LITERATURE
I need infromation on the politics, ideas, and events that were behind/contributed to gothic…
The independence of America and the French revolution both played a major role in creating the Gothic style of writing. England was losing in all directions, and many had felt so uncertain about…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
What are the differences between Sam and Eric?3 things
Interesting question. It is my opinion that Golding does not include any notable differences between the two. The other boys notice this, causing them to “lump” the twins together as Samneric….
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- THE RIVER BETWEEN
Who is Kiama in The River Between?
The Kiama is not a person. It is a council of elders,whose brain-child is actually Kabonyi. He was once a convert of christianity, the new religion, but decided to go back to the tradition when the…
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- HARLEM
Are citations already in APA format?
Hello, I hope I understand your question correctly. I am assuming that what you want to know is whether the citations that you copy and paste from an on-line source are already in APA format. The…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
What does the expression “conditioned” exactly mean?
Conditioned refers specifically to people living in BNW. The World controller in BNW uses hypnopaedia, genetic manipulation, and other societal controls to “condition” the inhabitants so that they…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
How does the government exactly accomplish the stability and happiness for the people?
The world controllers accomplish stability in the BNW by encouraging the use and abuse of soma, hypnopaedia, genetic manipulation, Bokanovsky’s process, Podsnap’s technique, and the use of other…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
What themes, ideas, and problems does this book raise? Are these relevant nowadays?
BNW is just as relevant today as it was when it was written. The book deals with the following themes and these themes are timeless or will gain significance in the near future: 1) Genetic…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
What is hypnopaedia teaching in Brave New World?
Hypnopaedia is sleep teaching, and the controllers use it in Brave New World to “condition” its populace to accept promiscuity, use and abuse soma, and “brainwash” them to accept the values and…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
Why are the deltas educated to hate flowers?
Lower classed citizens of the BNW are conditioned to hate books and flowers because a love of nature does not consume resoures, does nothing to increase the economy, and is a pastime that does not…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
In the final scene Ralph weeps because he has lost his innocence. Why? In comparison to others,…
Ralph weeps for the loss of innocense for a couple reasons. One reason is that he has finally come to realize, as Simon and Piggy did earlier, that the source of evil on the island and in all the…
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- THE JUNGLE
What impact did The Jungle have on the Socialist movement?
Published in 1906, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, a muckraker who wrote with the intention of informing society, first appeared in serial form in a Socialist newspaper called Appeal to Reason in…
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- HISTORY
What is a good website for American history past and present? I need notes for it or a practice…
http://americanhistory.about.com/ http://www.americanheritage.com/ http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi These are good general sites. Were you thinking of specific periods or events?…
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- WILLIAM BLAKE
What do the poems “The Songs of Innocence” and “The Songs of Experience” by William Blake mean?
“Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” are groups of poems published by William Blake in his book, Songs of Innocence and Experience, so your question really concerns a collection of many…
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- MACBETH
What advice would you give them? What would you tell them about the three witches’…
Great question! I’d tell them to bide their time. Tragedy, in Shakespeare always happens very fast: notice that, on the night that Lady M receives the letter, Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle and…
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- PERIODIC TABLE
What are the everyday uses of Hydrogen?
Hydrogen is found in massive quantities all over the universe. It is found in many places right here on Earth. So, it should come as no surprise that it is used in so many of the products that we…
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- A ROSE FOR EMILY
In “A Rose for Emily,” what is the highest point of the story?
Faulkner saves the highest point of his story, its dramatic climax, until the very end when Homer Barron’s decaying corpse is found in an upstairs bedroom in Miss Emily’s house, a room which nobody…
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- DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
Where are some examples of consonance, allusion, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and personification, in…
An example of consonance from the poem comes from lines 17 and states, “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray ” The consonance exists here in the words “curse” and…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
In The Great Gatsby, what is Daisy’s real response to Gatsby’s party, according to Nick?
Nick observes that Daisy did not enjoy the party, except for the short time she had spent alone with Gatsby. For the most part, Daisy was “offended” by party, in Nick’s words, “because it wasn’t a…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
“But a sign came down from the world of grownups, though at the time there was no child awake to…
At the beginning of Chapter Six of “Lord of the Flies,” a pilot has jumped from his plane, hoping to find safety only to be shot down by more enemy fire. His bloodied body lands in the trees and…
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- THE OUTSIDERS
Who grows up the most in The Outsiders book?its in the book called The Outsiders
This is actually a tough question to answer. It would be easy to say Ponyboy after all he goes through during the novel. The youngest member of his greaser gane, he witnesses the death of three…
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- HISTORY
What was Russia’s unemployment rates from 1917 to 1939?
rwake’s answer is correct, during the Revolution(s) and the Civil War things were far too chaotic to really have records of something like unemployment. Thousands were in armies, thousands were…
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- THE CRUCIBLE
How is dialogue used in Acts I and II to establish plot and character? What do we learn of…
Because this is a play and is meant to be acted out on stage, the dialogue is used to establish plot and character throughout the entire play, not just in Acts 1 & 2. However, specifically in…
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- OEDIPUS REX
In “Oedipus Rex”, how long had the plague on Thebes taken place?
The plague, along with famine, dying crops and babies being stillborn had been going on for a little while. It never states how many years it had been happening, but it had been going on long…
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- HOOPS
In Chapter 2, how does the author’s description of the center foreshadow trouble in Hoops?
In his description of the Center, the author mentions almost casually that, among the miscellaneous “stuff” in the office, there is “a rusty .32 with a broken handle that (the boys are) always…
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- THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
In “The Poisonwood Bible” what do you make of the village “Kilanga” that seems to have vanished…
The village disappearing from the land can be attributed to simple cultural and social changes that sculpt every landscape of an evolving country. Villages come and go, just as cities-and even…
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- MARTÍN ESPADA
Tony went to the bodega*but he didn’t buy anythingIn this poem, why do you suppose Espada…
Espada included the information about the father leaving the family so that we understand the reason little Tony, at nine years old, must find work to help support the family. Otherwise, with the…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, why does Scout quiz Atticus about his visit to the Radley house?To…
Scout has heard all kind of rumours about Boo Radley and she wants to check her father’s version against that of such people as the town gossip Miss Stephanie Crawford. According to local tales,…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
In The Great Gatsby, how was Jimmy Gatz’s childhood schedule consistent with the adult Gatsby’s…
Perhaps the most amazing fact about the daily schedule Jimmy Gatz’ followed during his boyhood in North Dakota is the fact that he kept one. Furthermore, reading the carefully structured division…
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- A SEPARATE PEACE
In “A Separate Peace”, do you think that Gene is telling the truth when he agrees with Finny that…
I think that the answer to this is yes, and no. I am not sure that Gene actually wanted to cause physical harm. It was, as he stated, “a blind impulse”. We have all experienced blind impulses,…
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- AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
What is the irony in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and is there an epiphany?
The irony of the story is that the reader thinks that Peyton Farquhar has escaped hanging and is trying to get back home. However, at the end of the story, we find that Peyton has been imagining…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
What is Lawrence Kohlberg’s stage theory of moral development?
Kohlberg, seeing that 10-11 years old is the beginning of formal operations (according to Piaget), questioned whether thinking about moral issues might have more stages. He determined that there…
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- THE WESTING GAME
What happened in the coffee shop when the heirs were having their meeting?
A bomb exploded in the kitchen of the Theodorakis’ coffee shop. It was so sudden: the earsplitting bangs, the screams, the confusion. Theo and Doug ran into the kitchen; Mrs. Thodorakis ran…
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- HISTORY
Can anyone help me with source material on King Edward IV? I have a presentation in two weeks. dj
King Edward IV of England’s first reign was from 1461-1470 and a second reign from 1471-1483. The history of King Edward IV coincided with The War of the Roses, civil wars fought between The House…
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- STORIES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
What are the similarities between “The Cast Of the Amontillado”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The…
All three stories deal with untimely death, premature burial, and the grotesque. In Cask A man tricks a rival into a crypt and seals him alive within the walls. The Tell-Tale Heart shows a man…
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- A RAISIN IN THE SUN
How does Hansberry challenge sterotypes of African Americans in her play? Discuss a character,…
Probably the character who challenges racial stereotypes the most in the play is Beneatha. Unlike the stereotypical uneducated African American, Beneatha is going to college and wants to become a…
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- A RAISIN IN THE SUN
What theme relates to the conflict between mama and her children and what was mama’s dream and…
You need to take a look at the title of this play, “A Raisin in the Sun”. It is taken from a line of poetry by Langston Hughes called Dream Deferred. The first line of the poem echoes the entire…
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- JOHN DONNE’S SONGS AND SONNETS
What are some useful methods for analyzing and explaining a poem by John Donne?
Although John Donne is an immensely inventive and unpredictable poet, certain analytical techniques are often consistently useful in analyzing his poems. Take, for instance, his poem “The…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
Compare the recreation and social activities of the lower castes with those of the upper caste in…
Members of the upper castes have a little more freedom in terms of games that they can play and pastimes they can indulge in. The lower castes are trained to hate books and flowers because a love…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
What are three good examples from the novel Fahrenheit 451 that best fit the definition of…
The novel contains several basic elements of science fiction, beginning with the setting. 1. The novel takes place in the future, the most basic element in science fiction. 2. Society in the novel…
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- TEACHERS
Is it a source of pride to teachers who post answers here that they are “helping” students, and…
Hello, I have not been doing this long enough to observe a trend, but I do not provide specific answers to students and do not perceive that to be my role. I do ask questions that I hope will point…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In “To Kill a Mockingbird” what does Miss Merriweather say about northeners?
Among many other tactless, offensive, haughty, and self-righteous comments that Miss Merriweather jabs incessantly about at the missionary meeting in chapter 24, northerners is one of them. She…
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- MACBETH
Is excessive ambition the only source of Macbeth’s “evil”?According to the critic L.C. Knights,…
Well, I’d start by asking – what is Macbeth’s “evil”? Knights makes a couple of significant assumptions: first of all, that evil as a concept exists not only in our world, but in the world of…
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- A CHRISTMAS CAROL
What are three significant things we learn about the Cratchits in A Christmas Carol?
In the story, the reader learns that although the Cratchit family is poor, struggles to make ends meet financially, they are a loving family. They have a very close family, there is a warmth, rich…
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