What kind of mixture is a suspension?
- HAMLET
Hamlet: How would you characterize the relationship between Gertrude and Claudius throughout the…
The relationship is something of a strange one. Based on the way Hamlet describes it and the way his father’s ghosts relates his betrayal, it appears that this is a passionate and lustful…
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- GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Describe Mrs. Joe Gargery’s bad treatment to Pip and the effect of this treatment on Pip in Great…
Pip is orphaned early in his childhood, and his older sister is forced to take him into her home. Resenting his presence, she becomes abusive both physically and mentally, and her mistreatment of…
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- THE PEDESTRIAN
What happens after the police stop Mead walking on the street?
One of the two robot police cars left in the city stops Leonard Mead walking the city streets because his behavior is suspicious. No one walks at night in this society because they are locked up in…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
Why do all of the firemen in Fahrenheit 451 look alike?
In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Montag notices that all of the firemen look similar. Although there are several possible explanations for this, one factor was the effects of the…
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- HISTORY
The brutal, bloody battles of Lexington and Concord changed the way of thinking for the colonies….
There were many examples of legislation the colonists didn’t support that were passed by Parliament. The first two laws dealt with the land the British received from France as a result of the…
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- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Describe the relationships between the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice.
The most significant relationship among the five Bennet sisters is between Jane and Elizabeth, the oldest and next oldest, respectively. Jane’s beauty and charms are somewhat affected by her shy…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
What does the ‘fun’ from the previous Christmas reveal?
In chapter two of Steinbeck’s novella, the old swamper Candy introduces George and Lennie to the other main characters at the ranch by describing each of them. One of the first characters he talks…
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- HAMLET
What is Hamlet’s flaw , which he himself indirectly mentions at the end of this monologue “to be…
Hamlet’s “To Be, or Not To Be” soliloquy is interesting for several reasons, among which is its revelation of Hamlet’s inner character. Unlike earlier soliloquies, this one is more rational,…
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- JEROME K. JEROME
Who is referred to as an angel in Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat and why?
This is a story from a previous river trip, told by the narrator in Chapter XII. The “angel” was a boy who came to their rescue when they needed a place to stay overnight in Datchet. J.,…
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- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
How is Elizabeth characterized as a wife, a daughter, and a sister in Pride and Prejudice?
Daughter: Elizabeth Bennett, the protagonist of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, is an unusually independent-minded young woman for her period. She clearly sees the faults of both her…
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- KATHERINE PATERSON
What was Katherine Paterson’s childhood like?
Katherine Paterson, the author of Bridge to Terabithia and many other children’s novels, was born as Katherine Womeldorf in Huai’an, Jiangsu, China, in 1932. Her parents were missionaries in China,…
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- JULIUS CAESAR
Prior to his departure for the Senate on the fateful day of his death, Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, asks Caesar to stay home. Along with recounting strange events taking place in the streets of Rome,…
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- THE KITE RUNNER
Chapter 10 opens with Baba and Amir riding in the back of the truck. What kind of truck is it?
In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, Amir’s narration skips forward several years between Chapters 9 and 10. Chapter 10 takes place in March of 1981, a period of time during which Russia had…
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- THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
In “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, what aspect of human biology does the speaker compare to rivers?
Langston Hughes’ beautiful poem about the journeys that African-Americans have taken uses a metaphor to describe how the river, as a source of travel, is like “the flow of human blood in human…
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- JULIUS CAESAR
How did Mark Antony counteract the allegations made against Caesar?
The answer to this question can be found in Act III, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar. After carrying out the assassination of Caesar, Brutus justifies the act by explaining to the crowd that Caesar was an…
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- JULIUS CAESAR
How did Brutus motivate all the conspirators?
Brutus was widely regarded as noble, honest, and patriotic. By joining in the conspiracy, he made the cause seem honorable and necessary. This gave the conspirators confidence that their…
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- THE GIVER
Why is Jonas surprised when he goes into the Annex for the first time in The Giver?
Jonas is surprised because the Annex has books and the speaker has an off switch. When Jonas is selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, he has no idea what to expect at first. He barely knows…
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- ANIMAL FARM
Give a brief note on Mr. Whymper from Animal Farm Chapter 6.
Mr. Whymper is the go-between for the animals. His job is to communicate and trade with people so the animals do not have to. The vision of Animal Farm is a place where animals have no contact….
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- COMMENTARIES
What does Brutus think of the letter in Julius Caesar?
Brutus gets a letter asking him to strike Caesar and it apparently convinces him to go through with the assasination. Cassius approaches Brutus at the feast of Lupercal and tells him that Julius…
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- HISTORY
Why did W.E.B Du Bois quit the NAACP?
W.E.B. Dubois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples. Through Dubois’s research and many worldly travels, he developed a fairly deep appreciation…
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- THE ALCHEMIST
What point does the old man make in the story about the boy in the castle and the drops of oil?…
The story is a great story with a wonderful lesson. In the story, a boy is told to carry a spoonful of oil around a castle. He is specifically told not to drop any of the oil. When he returns,…
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- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
What is the physical appearance of Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Demetrius is the “worthy gentleman” that Hermia’s father Egeus wants her to marry instead of Lysander, the boy she loves. Lysander explains that Demetrius is not right for Hermia because he…
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- HEALTH
A bite in two places on the lower leg by what is now believed to be a spider occurred almost 5…
First, you should see your physician to follow-up on the condition of the area. Depending on where you live in the world, you can consult a guide to find out what sorts of poisonous spiders are…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
In Romeo and Juliet, what might have caused the quarrel between the Montagues and the Capulets?…
The play offers few answers with regard to how the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets started. In the Baz Luhrmann movie version, the two lords are portrayed as competing business titans….
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- CATHEDRAL
In what city and state does Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” take place?
Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” is not said to take place in a specific city, but we may infer that “Cathedral” likely happens somewhere in New York. At the story’s open, the narrator…
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- CHEMISTRY
How would I separate a mixture of salt and sand using hexane?
Actually, what you are asking for is simply not possible. Both salt (sodium chloride) and sand are powdery solids. As a result, they cannot be mechanically separated by simply picking the…
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- MATH
What is probability that the 13th day of randomly chosen month is a Friday?
We want the probability that the 13th day of a randomly chosen month is the 13th. The naive answer is 1/7 as it would appear that each date is equally likely to be one of the seven days of the…
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- THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Chapter seventeen of The Story of My Life covers the summer of 1894, when Helen was a young teenager. It was during that summer that Helen attended a very important meeting of the American…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
Gatsby is great because he, simply put, retains an optimism and ability to dream that the vast majority of other characters in the book do not. When Nick returns from the war, he feels a…
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- IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES
I need to write an essay that relates to the following words: “social, cooperative, and loyal”….
Since you placed this under the category of the novel In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike, I’m assuming that you are writing about how a future president might benefit from reading the…
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- THE COP AND THE ANTHEM
What can be learned from the story?
What we learn from “The Cop and the Anthem” is very similar to what we learn from O. Henry’s story “A Retrieved Reformation.” Once a person has started down the wrong road in life, it is very…
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- GAMES AT TWILIGHT
What does Ravi think it would feel like to be “the winner in a circle of older, bigger, luckier…
In a word: awesome. Ravi wants to win the hide and seek game so badly that he can practically taste the victory. What fun if they were all found and caught—he alone left unconquered! He had…
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- HISTORY
What are impacts of modernization on our life?
Modernization has a number of effects on culture and society. The answer really depends on what category you are looking to examine. Modernization tends to have a big effect on economics as…
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- MATH
How do you solve linear equations with 3 variables? x+y=4, 2y+z=6, 3x-z=4.
Hello! The most straightforward method for solving linear system is the substitution method. We express one variable in terms of others from one equation and substitute this expression into all…
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- THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Is Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest a melodrama, a comedy of manners, or both?
Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest certainly qualifies as a comedy of manners. A comedy of manners is a work that humorously satirizes the manners of a particular social group,…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, how does the plot develop so that the children eventually…
At the beginning of the film To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, Jem, and Dill view their neighbor, Boo Radley, with fear and suspicion. They had heard many rumors about Boo, like that he stays chained…
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- SCIENCE
Determine the amount of caustic soda solution required to raise the pH of 2 l water from 7 to…
Caustic soda will add hydroxide ions to the water and thus increase its pH. Remember that pH + pOH = 14 and pH = −log10[H+]-log10[H+] . We can use these two equations to solve the numerical. Since, we…
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- JEROME K. JEROME
Describe any four characteristics of Jerome K. Jerome.
Jerome K. Jerome, the author of Three Men in a Boat, had a number of interesting characteristics, including having been a loyal life-long friend to Carl Hentschel and George Wingrave, with the…
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- AUTUMN
What aspect of winter does Campbell love?
This poem, as the title suggests, is about autumn–the anticipation of the season, the experience of it, the reflection upon it and its rewards after it has passed. The descriptions to this effect…
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- SCIENCE
When we are calculating the resistance of a circuit in parallel, why do we take the formula as…
These are the formulas for equivalent resistance: the equivalent resistance of the series circuit with the resistors R1R1 and R2R2 is Req=R1+R2Req=R1+R2 , and the equivalent resistance of the…
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- DEATH OF A SALESMAN
What happened to Willy after he got a little above Yonkers?
Willy stopped for a cup of coffee a little above Yonkers, a suburban city which is only about two miles north of Manhattan. Willy’s territory is all of New England, so he was just barely getting…
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- MENDING WALL
What’s the message of the poem?
Setting aside the ambiguity of the term “message,” the poem seems to discuss the contrasts between tradition and new thinking, between habit and modern adjustments to tradition. Frost, who was…
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- BEOWULF
What is an example of an epic simile in Beowulf?
“Epic simile” is also called Homeric simile, after its use in the Iliad and the Odyssey. As opposed to the standard simile, which tends to make a more straightforward comparison of “X is like Y,”…
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- THE CANTERBURY TALES
Why are the Canterbury Tales a good source of information for historians?
In addition to being an invaluable part of the English literary canon, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales offer an incomparable account of an important historical era. Chaucer’s epic poem is primarily…
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- SCIENCE
What apparatus can be used to measure the amount of water lost when boiling it?
Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid (water, in our case). The process is characterized by molecules escaping the liquid by possessing sufficient kinetic energy. This process happens all…
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- THE LION AND THE JEWEL
What are the themes throughout the play The Lion and the Jewel?
Wole Soyinka examines several themes throughout the play The Lion and the Jewel. He explores the themes of modernity versus tradition. Lakunle favors Western civilization and wishes that his…
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- HISTORY
What is the negative impact of beauty contests on society?
While preferences for certain physical features do have a basis in evolution and reproduction, most ideals or standards of beauty are culturally dependent and heavily shaped by notions of class,…
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- THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
In the “Gift of the Magi”, why does Jim sell his gold watch?
It is Christmas time, and Jim and Della are searching for Christmas presents for each other. The problem is they do not have any excess money to buy presents. They are on a tight budget….
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- THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
What are themes that can be seen in Chapter 2 of The Reluctant Fundamentalist?
Changez’s desire to belong is a theme in the second chapter of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. When Changez describes his first interactions with Erica, he emphasizes the importance of belonging. In…
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- SCIENCE
What kind of mixture is a suspension?
A mixture is a substance composed of two or more different types of particles. There are two main types of mixtures: homogeneous mixtures and heterogeneous mixtures. Homogeneous Mixtures: In a…
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