Who is the antagonist in the story A Rose for Emily?

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REFERENCE

I need this article to be summarized this is the website….

Since you are the one summarizing the article, I do not need to read it in order to help you. You will need to summarize the article with your own words, otherwise you will be plagiarizing….

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THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

How does the language in passages of the chapter titled “Modus Operandi” connect to broader…

The chapter titled “Modus Operandi,” which is the fifth section of the third part of Erik Larson’s nonfiction account of the 1893 Chicago World’s Exposition and the serial killer who…

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LITERATURE

What are some possible essay topics for Runner by Robert Newton?

I think that one of the strongest essay topics to emerge from Newton’s work is the idea of maturation. When his father dies, Charlie says, “When the undertakers came to wheel my father’s lifeless…

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THE REZ SISTERS

Describe anger as a deadly sin in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters.

Spirituality is present in most cultures in one form or another and the similarities become evident in Tomson Highway’s Rez Sisters. Anger is one of the Seven Deadly Sins (or vices) in Christianity…

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SYLVIA PLATH

RE: Sylvia Plath and Holocaust imagery. I’m coming across reviews that are critical of using…

The Holocaust has long been considered sacred territory. Politicians, entertainers, and others who have cavalierly offered images from the Holocaust for metaphorical or comparative purposes have…

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ANABASIS

What are the lessons about leadership in Anabasis?

In its most basic form, Anabasis instructs us that leaders should always practice virtue, especially when tragedy strikes. However, if one reads in between the lines, the reader can see a truly…

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Who is the narrator in Pride and Prejudice?

The narrator in this novel is an anonymous, third-person omniscient narrator. This means that the story is told by an unnamed narrator who stands outside of the characters and events and and…

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THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT

What is the main problem that must be solved or over come in The Outcasts of Poker Flat?

Poker Flat is a small town in California. On November 23, 1850, a secret town council had decided to get rid of the people they considered immoral. John Oakhurst, who is a great poker player, the…

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LITERATURE

I need help finding the right URL web site to search Robin Hood to help answer these questions….

Much of this is going to be dependent on your research and the perception that you have of your research. The Purdue Owl Sources below are very good resources for starting in terms of being able…

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THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT

What is the main problem that must be solved or overcome in the “Outcasts of Poker Flat”?

Bret Harte’s western story is certainly not a typical one. His experiences provided the material for many of his stories and helped to form the unsentimental and often cynical and even pessimistic…

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OF MICE AND MEN

Can someone give me examples for how loneliness in Of Mice and Men is caused by the Great…

Steinbeck was committed to showcasing reality as how it truly was. From his days as a journalist, this commitment to Social Realism enabled him to depict the often harsh conditions of reality…

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

Compare and contrast Bandura’s Social Learning theory and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Albert Bandura’s theory of behaviorism is entirely based on the palpable and not on the subjective, or mental. Its basic premise is that the world around us, those things that we can see, feel,…

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

“Some plays excite our emotions; others make us think; some do both.” In light of this statement,…

While Beckett’s existential play Waiting for Godot is certainly no drama with the emotional intensity of Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, the two plays do share some existential motifs which…

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CATULLUS

What is the main inference drawn by the speaker in Catullus 70, “My Woman Says There’s Nobody…

There is a depth to Catullus’s poem 70. On one level, there is an intensity of emotion that can be inferred from the poem’s opening lines: “My woman says that she prefers to marry no one/ over…

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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology 1. Three-year-old Will understands that his tricycle isn’t alive and can’t feel or…

Why an individual child’s imagination works the way it does is one of the mysteries of the universe that will likely never be known with absolute certainty. A child’s brain is rapidly…

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HISTORY

Which african nations were first to achieve independence and why? What factors account for the…

The first African nations to achieve independence were Liberia on July 26, 1847; Egypt on February 28, 1922; Libya on December 24, 1951; Sudan on January 1, 1956; Morocco on March 2, 1956; Tunisia…

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REFERENCE

Which of the following words would be best for completing each of the three sentences below? a….

The correct answers to these questions are C, A, B, in that order. In the rest of this answer, I will explain why each of these is correct. The word “poised,” in this context, means to be…

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VIRGINIA WOOLF

From “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf, identify one major metaphor at work and analyze…

In Woolf’s essay, the primary metaphor is the moth. Woolf views the moth as the metaphor for being in the world. I think that in order to understand how the moth operates as a mean to communicate…

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LITERATURE

dominance b. dominate c. domineering d. predominantly e. domain 1. The office workers…

In questions like this one, contextual clues and definitions will help in figuring out which word fits in each setting. This becomes the basis of all word choice issues in reading and writing….

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WISE BLOOD

How does Flannery O’Conner use indirect characterization to introduce readers to the character of…

Indirect characterization is usually presented by the author in five ways (called the STEAL method): Speech, Thoughts, Effect (on other characters), Actions, and Looks. So, in Wise Blood, we have…

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MARJORIE PERLOFF

What are Perloff’s criticisms of an ‘interdisciplinary’ approach? How does Hayes Edwards…

Perloff’s concern is that the discipline of literature has become secondary to other disciplines (in popular interdisciplinary studies). She would argue that interdisciplinarity is useful in…

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MATH

Given that 2−37–√2−37–√=a+b7–√2-372-37=a+b7 , find a and b.

2−37–√2-37 and 2+37–√2+37 are called “conjugates” of each other. So now we need to simplify 2+37–√2−37–√⋅2+37–√2+37–√2+372-37⋅2+372+37 = First, simplify the numerator by multiplying…

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LITERATURE

Kambili in Purple Hibiscus always identifies a Peugeot by its model number. she says the 505 was…

I think that one distinct symbolic use of the Peugeot is to enhance the representation of order and structure. Kambili understands that the car embodies not only status and power, but also a sense…

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BUSINESS

When manufacturers who use plastic as an input have access to cheaper plastic, what will this…

When manufacturers who use plastic as an input get access to cheaper plastic, the supply of their products increases. There is no reason that the drop in the price of plastic will have any effect…

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THE OUTSIDERS

In The Outsiders, how is Ponyboy different in the middle of the story ?

At the beginning of the story, Ponyboy is kind of selfish and self absorbed. He only thinks about himself and the things he wants. He has had a hard childhood. His parents were killed in an…

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

What are 8 major character traits of Scout with quotes?

Scout is the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird. As the narrator, she is a grown woman telling the story through her eyes as a young girl. Much of the charm of the book derives from the adult…

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REFERENCE

what is the pair of words that best completes the analogy 1. Poised : Composure a. fearful :…

The types of analogies shown above set up an initial relationship between two things that is comparable to only two other things on the basis of the first relationship. With regard to the three…

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MATH

What does 3x-1-1 simplify down to?

You can simplify 3x – 1 – 1 as 3x – 2. In an algebraic expression as this one, one can combine (add or subtract) only the terms that are called “like terms”. For example, 2x and -4x are like terms…

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THE NECKLACE

What theme might be hinted at in the description of Madame Loisel’s longings in “The Necklace”?

One of the themes best expressed by Mathilde’s story is that we should enjoy what we have, rather than long for what we don’t, because we could lose it at any time. Madame Loisel lives a…

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APOLOGY

What is the ‘older’ accusation Socrates is faced with? Why does he feel he must engage this…

The older accusation(s) facing Socrates is that he investigates things that belong to the gods. In other words, he investigates cosmological questions of what the universe is and how things in the…

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AMADEUS

What is the climax in the Amadeus?

The play, which opens with the aged Salieri, who has been a successful composer in the Hapsburg court under Emperor Joseph II, addresses the audience in a confession of his having killed the…

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MATH

Why is the problem flipped in the last step and is there anything else I need to do or is that…

Your original question was how to multiply two binomials. You had done all of the work and wanted to verify the answer: (3+7x)(6+2x) In essence, you will use the distributive property of…

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THE GREAT GATSBY

In The Great Gatsby, what becomes certain about Gatsby’s past?

Fitzgerald creates a very interesting dynamic regarding the certainty in Gatsby’s past. On one hand, the facts about Gatsby’s past are understood and make clear sense. He came from North Dakota,…

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REFERENCE

How to start writing chapter three of research.

Your question is an enigma, but without further explanation, I can at least tell you how to write one of the middle paragraphs in a research paper (although I’m not sure if that is what you’re…

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POETRY

Explication for “Walk in the Park” by Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson’s free verse is a reflection of what he experiences as he walks in the park, a reflection he shares in the hope that others will share his enjoyment of the senses, set apart at the…

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BUSINESS

Fire at an oil refinery in the Gulf will not be fixed for a month. What will this mean for the…

Basic macroeconomic theory would indicate that a fire at an oil refinery in Gulf Coast region of the United States would generate an increase in the price of gasoline and other petroleum-based…

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OTHELLO

Describe the racism in Othello and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. 2. Compare and contrast the…
The racism in Othello and The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is the same in that racism drives the actions that lead to each protagonist’s tragic death. The racism in each is different. The racism in…

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BUSINESS

The Japanese government has decided to subsidize its domestic automobile producers with stimulus…

If the Japanese government decides to subsidize the Japanese car industry, it will be the supply curve for Japanese cars that will move. That curve will move outward, showing that supply is…

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

Identify two or three primary frameworks through the documentary: “Baltimore: Anatomy of an…

I think that one framework that is evident in the documentary is the paradigm of consensus and conflict based narratives. This framework is predicated upon the presence of dualistic and, quite…

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LITERATURE

What is the main “message” in “The Winnebago Trickster Cycle?”

In my opinion, the main message of “The Winnebago Trickster Cycle” is that humans should be wary of considering themselves above the natural world. These are all simple stories to teach valuable…

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SHANGHAI GIRLS

How long were Pearl and May detained at Angel Island in the novel Shanghai Girls?

It’s possible to trace Pearl’s and May’s journey from Shanghai because the Shanghai offensive in the second Sino-Japanese War, part of World War II, began on August 13, 1937. The day after this, on…

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Obviously Scout narrates the story, but from which perspective is the trial told in Chapters…

Scout, Dill, and Jem watch the trial from the balcony so that we can see the trial from the black community’s perspective too. During the trial of Tom Robinson, all of Maycomb seems to come out….

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BROWN GIRL, BROWNSTONES

Can anyone help me with critical essays on Paule Marshal’s Brown Girl Brownstones?

[There are a number of critical essays available online from the internet library sources such as JSTOR. In addition, here on Enotes there are criticisms; see the link below to access them.] –One…