Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
- HISTORY
Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? Did it have some strategic value?
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The United States and Japan were having some issues leading up to this attack. Japan was expanding its control in Asia and in the Pacific. They had…
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- THE MOUSE AND THE MOTORCYCLE
How do Keith’s parents and Ralph know Keith is really sick in Beverly Cleary’s The Mouse and the…
In chapter 10 of The Mouse and the Motorcycle, author Beverly Cleary describes many symptoms that show Keith is very ill, symptoms that Ralph, the mouse, is the first to notice.Ralph begins to…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
I need help making a thesis statement for To Kill a Mockingbird. My theme is growing up and my…
It is good that you have a theme to connect each of these examples, and that you have chosen three examples to support your point. While it might be tempting to put all of these into the thesis…
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- SCIENCE
What is the heating process responsible for moving bands of air around Earth?
Well, the specific process would be convection. The process of convection occurs when hot air, heated by the sun, rises into the atmosphere. The higher the air goes, the cooler it gets, so the…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
Candy’s relationship to his dog can be compared to George’s relationship with Lennie. What are…
George and Lennie have been buddies for a long time. George has gotten attached to Lennie just as Candy is attached to his old dog. George feels a sense of responsibility for Lennie, just as Candy…
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- THE WEDNESDAY WARS
What conflicts are in Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars?
The central conflict in Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars is an internal conflict within the protagonist Holling Hoodhood. Holling is not brave enough to stand his ground and, as a result, feels…
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- OF MICE AND MEN
Candy’s relationship with his dog is like George and his relationship with Lennie. What are some…
When George and Lennie walk by the pool in the first chapter, George leads and Lennie follows. When Candy and his dog walk into the bunkhouse in Chapter 3, Candy leads and the dog follows. This…
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- GATHERING BLUE
Does Jonas from the book The Giver appear in this book Gathering Blue, which is a sequel to The…
The answer is both yes and no. Gathering Blue is set in a village that is very dissimilar to the community which Jonas leaves at the end of The Giver. Kira, the main character in Gathering Blue,…
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- SCIENCE
Water flowing over a waterwheel is an example of kinetic energy transforming in to what type of…
Waterwheel is a device which harvests the the energy of water. Here, the kinetic energy of water is converted to mechanical energy. Historically, waterwheels were used to power watermills for…
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- THE GIVER
What is The Giver’s favorite memory in The Giver?
The Giver’s favorite memory is a family celebrating Christmas. In Jonas’s community, there is no such thing as family or love. The elderly are kept separate from everyone else until they are…
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- OUT OF THE DUST
In Out of the Dust, who does Billie Jo feel that she has let down?
In April of 1935, Billie Jo is asked to play the piano at the school’s graduation. After the death of her mother and baby brother, Billie Jo has refused to practice on Ma’s piano; the terrible…
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- THE CRUCIBLE
How can I analyze the meaning of John Proctor’s speech? How does it relate to the central…
In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, the protagonist, John Proctor, makes a speech at the end which reveals his hidden thoughts and also addresses the central conflict in the play. When he is…
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- FAUST
In Goethe’s Faust, how do both Faust and Gretchen each express an attempt to exceed the limits of…
Let us base the answer to this question entirely on their relationship, specifically, the disparate nature of their origins, the goals that they both have in mind, and how everything ends. In…
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- SCIENCE
In your own words, explain how light intensity affect plant growth? -Explain how pH level affect…
It should come as no surprise that, since plants make the majority of their food by photosynthesis, good strong direct sunlight has a direct effect on the amount of growth a plant will experience….
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- INDIAN CAMP
Towards the end of the operation Nick’s father puts something into the basin. What do you think…
The thing that Nick’s father puts in the basin is the placenta. The placenta is an organ that feeds the baby in the womb, and is usually delivered after the baby is born. The fact that Hemingway…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
How is Romeo presented as a lover in “Romeo and Juliet”?
Romeo is presented as a passionate, highly emotional, headstrong but very immature lover in “Romeo and Juliet”. It’s important to remember that the romantic ideals of love that are often…
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- THE HOBBIT
Based on “The Hobbit,” how might one describe or demonstrate the point or purpose of literature?
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, along with The Lord of the Rings, is the quintessential fantasy story, as it introduced the world to a mythical realm of dwarves, elves, wizards, and dragons. However,…
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- HOLES
How did Stanley discover the tube was a lipstick in Holes?
Stanley knows that the gold tube is a lipstick tube because he remembers his mother’s lipstick tubes. Stanley recognizes the tube as a lipstick tube when he remembers that he has seen lipstick…
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- SCIENCE
Gary went hiking he took along trail mix of nuts, raisins and other dried fruit. When he got… 1 image
As the name suggests, trail mix is a mixture. In fact, trail mix is a heterogeneous mixture, since all the components are distinguishable from each other and can be separated out easily. A mixture…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
Where does most of the action in Romeo and Juliet take place?
There are several different settings for the action in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the majority of which are in the northern Italian city of Verona. One scene, Act V, Scene 1, takes place in…
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- SCIENCE
What is the length of a planetary day on each planet?
Though I cannot give you information about the length of a day on every known planet — many are too far away to be reliably observed in this respect — I can tell you the length of a day on each…
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- LYDDIE
What does Lyddie learn about being a good worker in chapter 9 in the book Lyddie?
In chapter 9, Lyddie begins working on the floor at the textile factory, the Concord Corporation. The huge looms with their deafening clatter and “alarming speed” overwhelm her so that she cannot…
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- LIFE OF PI
What connections does Pi make between zoos and religion?
One of the many thoughtful things that Pi has to say about his two passions (and later his two majors in college) is that both are out of fashion. In the modern world, people are becoming more…
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- SCIENCE
The cytoplasm is the fluid that is found between the cell membrane and nucleus of a cell. Sometimes this fluid is also referred to as the cytosol. Below, several functions of the cytoplasm are…
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- A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
Which detail helps describe the primary setting of the story?
There is not any one detail that adequately describes the setting. The story is set in and around a small home in the rural south during the 1930s and we know this over the course of reading the…
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- THE GIVER
That is the biggest question at the end of the book. It is up to the reader to determine whether or not he dies or survives – but why is there confusion? If we re-read the end of the book, there is…
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- AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
What were Peyton Farquhar’s struggles?
First, Peyton Farquhar struggles to support the South in war in which they are losing. He was “an original secessionist” and “ardently devoted to the Southern cause,” meaning that he very much…
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- A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Give a short paragraph on the conflict in A Christmas Carol.
The key to writing a paragraph like this is to determine which conflict you would like to examine. There are several in the story, but the most prominent is the conflict Scrooge faces within…
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- THE MONKEY’S PAW
In “The Monkey’s Paw” give examples of Herbert White’s attitude towards the paw.
Herbert White’s attitude towards the paw is purely sarcastic. He does not believe that the paw is anything special. He actually pokes fun at the idea that the paw can do anything magical. This…
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- THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER
How is Paul similar to a tragic hero?
A tragic hero is typically an upper-class person who, through a character flaw or mistake of judgment, comes to a bad end. Paul comes from a well-to-do family. He lives in a fine house with…
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- THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
What is the plot in the “The Most Dangerous Game?”
The plot of the story can be summarized in three statements. First, Rainsford, a world-renowned hunter, is on a hunting expedition with his friend, Whitney. Along the way, Rainsford falls off the…
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- HISTORY
Which empire contributed winged statues?
The Neo-Assyrian Empire (883-612 BC) of Mesopotamia introduced the world to winged statues. The statues are called lamassu and represented a protective deity from earlier Assyrian times. The…
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- THE PEARL
Who are the pearl buyers in The Pearl?
The pearl buyers are dishonest merchants, intent on cheating those people who bring them pearls to sell. They are not independent buyers but in collaboration with a main merchant, who pays them a…
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- ANIMAL FARM
Where does equality and communism apply in Animal Farm?
The irony of this question is that there isn’t communism or equality in Animal Farm. At the beginning of the book, Old Major, spoke of Animalism. In the way he expounded it, there was equality or…
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- ROMEO AND JULIET
Which characters are similar in Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
I would argue that the characters who are most similar to each other in Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are actually Romeo and Juliet themselves and Hermia and Lysander. If we take a…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
What chapter in Lord of the Flies do the boys became savage?
One could argue that the boys always possess savagery, and it was the removal of society’s confines that allowed it to emerge. However, if one chapter needed to be identified as the point in which…
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- THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER
In The Sign of the Beaver, after his day of fun at the Indian village, Matt eagerly waits for…
Matt’s day of fun at the Indian village after he saved Attean’s dog from a trap, left him feeling as if he was finally accepted by Attean and his tribe. His grandmother was impressed he had saved…
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- HISTORY
Why would Martin Luther support the Reformation?
It was the actions of Martin Luther, namely his public criticism of the Church practice of selling indulgences, that sparked the Protestant Reformation. So perhaps we should address Luther’s…
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- HISTORY
Did Washington, Adams, and Jefferson face problems internationally?
The short answer to this question is yes, and broadly speaking, the main challenges they faced stemmed from the nearly forty-year European war precipitated by the French Revolution. Let us look at…
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- THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
In J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, how is Holden Caulfield a hero?
Seeing Holden Caulfield as a hero is tough. Really tough. For most of the novel, I wanted to throw Holden out of a window or something. He complains about everything, and he is never willing to…
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- SCIENCE
What is the definition of energy?
In simplest terms, energy can be defined as the ability of a body to do some work. For example, flowing water in a river has energy which erodes land or is converted to electrical energy. The SI…
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- THE OUTSIDERS
In The Outsiders, why does Johnny consider Dally to be a hero?
In chapter five, while Johnny and Pony are in the church, Johnny starts talking about Dally in a tone that really surprises Ponyboy. Pony always knew that Johnny really looked up to Dally but for…
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- ECONOMICS
Find the periodic withdrawals for the annuity $105,000 at 5% paid out monthly for 23 years….
We have a present value of $105,000 in an account bearing 5% annual interest. We wish to determine the monthly amount we can withdraw so that the account balance hits zero in 23 years: Use the…
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- LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
What would be 3 good adjectives for the policemen in this story “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
The first adjective that bests describes the police officers who are at the house of Patrick Maloney investigating his murder is easily led. Although it took persuasion from the part of Mary…
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- THE TEMPEST
Is loss a theme in “The Tempest?”
“All lost!” cry the sailors in the shipwreck that opens “The Tempest” and indeed loss pervades the play. Prospero has lost everything but his books and his daughter Miranda: his title, his…
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- MATH
Find the present value of the decreasing annuity necessary to fund the withdrawals. $ 1530 per…
To solve, apply the formula of present value of annuity. PV=PMT[1−(1+rn)−nt]rnPV=PMT[1-(1+rn)-nt]rn where PV is the present value PMT is the periodic payment r is the rate n is the number of…
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- THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
What is the mood at the point where Holmes and Watson prepare to spend the night in the room in…
The mood is a mixture of fear, suspense, excitement, anticipation, extreme nervous tension, and curiosity. Dr. Watson describes it well when he tells how he and Holmes waited in silence in the…
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- MATH
Find the periodic payments necessary to accumulate the amount of $11500 in a fund paying 5% per…
To determine the periodic payment, apply the formula of future value of annuity. FV=PMT[(1+rn)nt−1]rnFV=PMT[(1+rn)nt-1]rn where FV is the future value r is the rate n is the number of payments in a year,…
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- LITERATURE
What are the similarities and differences between Marxist theory and psychoanalytic theory in…
Both Marxist theory and psychoanalytic theory emphasize the examination and critique of underlying structures and their manifestations. With Marxist theory, one is analyzing the social structures…
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- THE TEMPEST
Is loss a theme in The Tempest by Shakespeare?
Yes, loss is an important theme in The Tempest. The mariners believe their ship is going to be destroyed in the storm and cry “all lost!” Prospero loses his dukedom, Ferdinand believes that his…
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