• THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS

What would be the possible theme for “August 2026: there will come soft rains?”

In my opinion, the theme of this story is that human beings are letting technology run away with their lives. The story is saying that we are putting too much faith in technology and that this…

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• MATH

(e^2x+1)/e^x dxintegrate by substitution method

intg (e^2x+1)/e^x dx Let t = e^x ==> dt = e^x dx = tdx ==> dx = dt/t ==> intg (e^2x+ 1)/e^x) dx = intg (t^2 + 1)/t * dt/t = intg (t^2 + 1)/t^2…

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• BUSINESS

Please give five real life examples in India for the terms monopoly, monopolistic competition and…

The primary monopolies in India are government monopolies of utilities and transportation. One specific example is the government monopoly of rail transportation through Indian Railway: Lifeline to…

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• SAKI

Describe the park in Saki’s story “Dusk.”The park in which Gortsby sits .

The setting for Saki’s story, “Dusk” is London at Hyde Park Corner where there is a park that is bound by bushes and fence against the busy noise of traffic and blazing city lights with the…

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• MACBETH

In what ways does Shakespeare call on the images of light, of sleep and of blood to emphasise…

In Act 5 Scene 1 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has gone mad with guilt, now feeling the weight of the responsibility of her actions. She continually has a light next to her to symbolize that she can…

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• RELIGION

Who is affected by abortion, and what is the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion?Any other…

The teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion is that it is never morally acceptable to abort a fetus intentionally. This is true even in the case that the mother’s life would be in danger if…

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• REFERENCE

Compare/contrast roles the prison system, the family, and the social stratification system play…

Wow. That’s a big question. If the issue is alleviating crime, one of the three elements you mention does the least to impact the prevention or repetition of crime. That, of course, is the…

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• CANDIDE

From specific passages in the text of Candide, can you describe Voltaire’s vision of human…

Candide parodies the philosophy of optimism promulgated by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz that stated that because God created the world, and God is perfect, everthing in the world is perfect. One…

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• GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS

What does it mean to be pickwickian?Not “pickwickian syndrome” (this is mostly what I have been…

In the literary sense, “Pickwickian” comes from Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Several meanings of the word actually derive directly from this novel. One character in the novel, Samuel Pickwick,…

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• TEACHERS

I am a teacher in search of a grammar textbook, in print or out of print, which will focus on…

We do something call Daily Grammar Practice (DGP). There is a DGP publishing website where you can check it out. I believe that it is available for grades 1-12. I teach 11th grade, and we work on…

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• THE ODYSSEY

In Book One in The Odyssey, what problems did Odysseus’ absence cause for his wife and son?

The problem that Odysseus’s wife (Penelope) and son (Telemachus) are having due to his absence is one of the main bases of the plot. The problem is that there are all these men who want to marry…

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• THE ODYSSEY

In Book One of The Odyssey, why did the goddess Athena want Zeus to send Hermes to Calypso?

First, you have to remember that Odysseus is a guy who Athena really likes. Throughout this whole epic, she will keep helping him out in various ways. This is the first place where she does…

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• THE COLOR PURPLE

Discuss race, gender and marginality in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, the issues of race, gender, and marginality are critical to the development of theme, plot, and character. The novel’s protagonist Celie is sexually abused by…

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• THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW

Can you give me five really unique quotes from the book, That was Then, This is Now?

Here are a few quotes from S. E. Hinton’s That was Then, This is Now. All of a sudden it seemed like I was a hundred years old, or thirty at least. I wondered if, when I got to be twenty, I would…

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• THE ODYSSEY

In book One of The Odyssey, what did Poseidon have agianst Odysseus?

When Odysseus lands on the island where the cyclopes live, he encounters Polyphemus, Poseidon’s son. Polyphemus captures Odysseus and some of his best men and traps them in his cave. He then…

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• THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Though examining the character relationships, please compare The Taming of the Shrew and 10…

This question could make quite an extensive essay, so I’ll cover two relationships and point you, hopefully, in a useful direction. Also, since you don’t distinguish, I’ll be using the characters…

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• LITERATURE

What is the translation of wu-wei?

Wu-wei is a translation of Modern Chinese to pinyin. It is an important concept used in Taoism or more commonly known as Daoism. It involves the concepts of knowing when to act and not to act….

• LITERATURE

Examine the European influences on American thought and literature in the eighteenth century.

I think that one can find the presence of European thought in the American intellectual movement of Transcendentalism. The presence of Romanticism in Europe was strongly evident in the American…

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• ARTS

How do we determine if a piece of art might be a work of art?How do we determine if a piece of…

This is a really fine distinction, isn’t it–the difference between a created piece known as art and a work of art, which rises to another level. I so appreciate tiago’s answer, and I sense the…

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• HISTORY

How are illegal immigrant issues in America related to history of the US?How are illegal…

I am not quite sure what you are asking here, but I will try to answer. To me, the most important connection between illegal immigration today and US history is with the two previous big waves of…

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• MACBETH

Carefully read Macduff’s questions in Scene 4. Can you get any sense of his state of mind at…

In Act 2 Scene 4, Macduff does not actually pose questions, but he does present situations that are questionable. Macduff meets Rosse and the Old Man in the scene, and upon entering, Rosse asks…

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• MACBETH

What do Malcolm and Donalbain decide at the end of scene 3 in Macbeth? Quote lines to support…

You must always give an Act as well as Scene number when referring to a particular moment in a play. I am not positive, but it seems that you are referring to Act II, Scene iii, when Malcolm and…

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• BUSINESS

What responsabilities do business have to address the ethical content of law?

Businesses are obliged to follow all aspects of laws, irrespective of whether a law has any ethical aspects involved. A business that does not follow the law is likely to face the negative…

• BUSINESS

Discuss responsbilities of a business organization when involved with international organizations.

There are many different responsibilites that a business involved in the international market must be concerned with. The first area is different cultural aspects and expectations. For example,…

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• OEDIPUS REX

In Oedipus Rex, what does Oedipus mean when he calls Teiresias a “child of endless night”?

Be careful to note the line number when referring to a specific quote from Oedipus (or any other Greek tragedy). There are differences in word choices depending on which English translation from…

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• JULIUS CAESAR

How is the theme ‘omens’ unpacked in the play: Julius Caesar?

There are numerous omens that figure into the plot of Julius Caesar. One of the earliest is the Soothsayer uttering the now famous “Beware the ides of March” line. The ides of March simply meant…

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• HISTORY

How did the business of tobacco in Colonial Virginia contribute to Bacon’s Rebellion?

The deteriorating relationship between frontier tobacco farmers in Virginia and the Native Americans living there led to Bacon’s Rebellion. But an underlying cause of the rebellion was low…

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• WUTHERING HEIGHTS

What is the thesis statement in Annette Federico’s essay about Wuthering Heights – “The Waif at…

In this essay, Annette Frederico argues that the first generation in the novel is actually a regression from adulthood to adolescence, while the second half represents a bildungsroman. According to…

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• THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

What is the setting of The Hound of the Baskervilles?

Setting= the time AND place in which a story takes place. The place in The Hound of the Baskervilles is the English countryside (the moors) and the time is the 19th century (1800’s)

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• THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

Select 3 adjectives that best describe Edmond Dantes’s personality and explain an incident or…

A complex character of Alexandre Dumas’s tale of revenge and redemption, Edmund Dantes exhibits certain saliet traits: INGENUOUS In the opening chapters of The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes…

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• ROMANTICISM

Romantic poets are diverse in their writing although they are all grouped under one movement. Do…

I think that any movement of writers or poets is bound to have differences within it. The Romantic movement is no exception. There are some distinct common threads within all of the writers…

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• MATH

find the values of x where the function: y= x^3 -3x^2 + 2 reaches a max and min, also calculate…

y= x^3 – 3x^2 + 2 First we need to calculate the critical values of y, to do so, we need to find the first derivative’s zeros. Let us differentiate: y’ = 3x^2 – 6x 3x^2 – 6x = 0 Factor 3x: ==>…

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• ENDER’S GAME

In Ender’s Game last chapter, how come Ender happens to travel first to the very planet where the…

I’ll try to be as convincing as possible without much exact textual back up. I do not have the book in front of me, but I think I can give you enough to help you understand. The answer starts…

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• HEALTH ISSUES

what is the order of tabs in composing a medical chart?

The following are the standard sections found in hospital medical charts. In any given chart, some of the sections may be absent, depending on the nature of the illness, circumstances, treatments,…

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• HISTORY

What was the purpose of lynching in the 20th century United States?What was the purpose of…

It is not really possible to answer this with 100% certainty because there could have been a variety of reasons held by the many people who participated. But the usual answer given is that…

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• ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS

Can some give me 4 sentence about the problem in Island of the Blue Dolphins?Can you give me four…

In The Island of the Blue Dolphins, the primary problem was one of survival. Not only must Karana survive against the pack of dogs that killed her little brother, but she must do all of the work…

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• ANIMAL FARM

Why do the animals fail to recognize how things are changing as the time goes on, in Animal Farm…

There are two major reasons that I would give for this. First, the pigs are the ones who control the information that the other animals get. By doing so, they control what the other animals think…

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• ELLEN FOSTER

What does the story say about people in general?

The story about Ellen Foster circles around the childhood abuse of Ellen. Ellen’s father is at the center of the abuse cycle. First he abuses Ellen’s mother, which shifts into Ellen’s mother…

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• GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS

What is a climax including rising and falling action?

Just to further extrapolate, the climax is a totally separate plot element than the rising action and the falling action. Yes, the rising action LEADS to the climax (the highest point of tension…

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• FAHRENHEIT 451

Why does this oppressive society allow Granger and his group of wanderers to exist in Fahrenheit…

The “powers that be” in the setting of Fahrenheit 451 probably don’t mind that Granger and the other “wanderers” exist because they really do not pose much of a threat; besides, how much damage…

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• GUARDIAN

Other then the rape of Mary Susan, what are two other major events that occurred in the book…

The other major event which occurred in the book other than the rape of Mary Susan is, of course, the lynching of Big Willie. The lynching is an atrocity for many reasons, not the least of which is…

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• WUTHERING HEIGHTS

What is the thesis statement of the essay The Waif at the Window: Emily Bronte’s Feminine…

You should always look for a thesis statement in the opening paragraph or Introduction of an essay. This is where the writer should state the thesis. All the following paragraphs (before the…

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• ANIMAL FARM

Does the ability to speak or reason lead to any of the vices that Old Major attributes to humans…

Old Major says, more or less, that humans are greedy and they take the fruits of others’ labor (without working themselves). They are tyrannical and brutal. I do not think that any of these…

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• HISTORY

In the ante-bellum period (USA 1850s) was slavery benign and profitable?If possible,…

Of course slavery was not benign except in the view of the Southerners. They argued that slavery was benign because it was more humane than wage labor in the North. They argued that slaveowners…

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• SCIENCE

Can babies be allergic to their mothers or vice versa?

If you are referring to mother’s milk, most babies are not allergic to it. However, sometimes the diet of the mother, may include some proteins that could affect the milk and may cause digestive…

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• MATH

Illustrate a suitable mathematical method to solve the equation x^x = 10 for real x. Given 2^2 =…

x^x = 10. As far as calculations are considered we go as follows: x^x = 10. x = 10^(1/x) f(x) = x -10^1/x is positive for x = 2 and positive for x=3. Therefore there is a solution in between 2…

• MATH

Calculate Re (7+i)/(3-i) + Im (6+2i)/(2i).

To calculate Real part(7+i)/(3-i) + Imaginary part {6+2i)/2i). Let us simplify each term by realisation of the denominators: To find Re [(7+i)/(3-i)]: (7+i)/(3-i) = (7+i)(3+i)/(3-i)(3+i) =…

• VIKRAM SETH

What message does the poem “The Frog and the Nightingale” convey?

Do not trust frogs. In all seriousness, I would say that the issue of blind trust and faith is one of the messages in Seth’s poem. The fact that the nightingale has real talent and skill, yet…

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• MATH

Equationarctan x+arctan(2x-1)=pi/2

The terms arctan x and arctan (2x-1) are angles. Let’s note arctan (x) = a and arctan (2x-1) = b We’ll re-write the equation: arctan x + arctan(2x-1) = pi/2 arctan(2x-1) = pi/2 – arctan x We’ll…

• MATH

Differentiate f(x) = 1/(x+1) + ln [(5x+5)/(5x+6)]?

f(x) = 1/(x+1) + ln [(5x+5) / (5x+6)] We know that ln (a/b) = ln a – ln b ==> f(x) = 1/(x+1) + ln (5x+5) – ln (5x+6) Now let us deffrentiate f(x)” ==> f'(x) = -1/(x+1)^2 + 5/(5x+5) – 5/(5x+6)