Why does McCarthy make the apocalyptic event in The Road ambiguous?
- THE ROAD
Why does McCarthy make the apocalyptic event in The Road ambiguous?
This is a matter of personal opinion, of course, but I believe McCarthy’s goal in leaving the mankind-endangering event vague in The Road was that the event itself is not the point of the book, and…
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- MACBETH
What quotes provide evidence that Lady Macbeth knows right from wrong in Shakespeare’s Macbeth?
The quote in Act 2, Scene 2, lines 12-13, “Had he not resembled/my father as he slept, I had done’t” indicates that Lady MacBeth does have some conscience. The quote indicates that she has some…
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- MATH
What is the amount to be paid yearly to repay a loan of $100,000 given at an interest rate of 10%…
To find the amount that has to be paid every year, we use the concept of present value of money. Let me explain what present value of money is. An amount A if invested for a period of n years at an…
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
How do I get personal accounts of contemporary adult mother-son incest or adult mother-son sexual…
I’m not sure that you are going to get any personal answers to this question on eNotes, however, this topic is not so esoteric that you won’t be able to find anything. If your level and field of…
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- THROUGH THE TUNNEL
In “Through the Tunnel,” identify the perspectives that affected the main character?
Arguably the central perspective that affected Jerry in this excellent story was the relationship that Jerry has with his mother. It is clear that at the start of the tale she is struggling to let…
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- A ROSE FOR EMILY
Was Homer Barron trapped?Was Homer Barron trapped?
Basically, yes. Homer Barron was trapped because he was living in the household of a co-dependent woman. Any man who lives with a woman who needs him (regardless of whether she actually loves, or…
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- LITERATURE
What is the main theme in the book Fat City written by Leonard Gardner?What is the novel is…
In the novel Fat City by Leonard Gardner, the reader is introduced to two men at different times of their lives. Both look to boxing as a way to earn money and respect. One is Billy Tully, and the…
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- BUSINESS
How do companies maintain strong customer relationships in a marketing aspect?
Companies maintain strong customer relationships by developing customer retention programs. The programs focus on keeping the customer, maintaining the customer, improving the customer, and…
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Explain the National Population Policy of India from 2000.population policy govt. of india 2000.
This is a rather vague question — the link I have added here is to a 16 page pdf that explains the National Population Policy of 2000. It is hard to know which aspects of the policy you want…
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- SCIENCE
Why do satellites revolve around the Earth instead of just falling towards it?
A force acting on a body results in a change in velocity. If the force applied is F and the mass of the body is m, the resulting acceleration a is equal to F/m. Now acceleration is the change in…
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
How necessary is bureaucracy for America?How necessary is bureaucracy for America?
I am sorry to say that bureacracy is extremely important to America. We all know that bureacracy can be painfully slow, extravagantly wasteful, absurdly arrogant. But do we know the definition of…
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- LITERATURE
Why was the book The Witness by Sandra Brown banned? Why, when and where?
The Witness by Sandra Brown was published in 1995. The book detailed a bombing that was perpetrated by a brotherhood. The book came out within weeks of the bombing in Oklahoma City where Brown’s…
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- INHERITING THE REVOLUTION
What are the main theses in the book Inheriting the Revolution?
One of the most dominant ideas in Appleby’s work is the idea of how the nation of America came to be. It is almost taken for granted, that colonists morphed into revolutionaries and then morphed…
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- MATH
Find the gcd (a,b) and integers m and n such that (a,b) = am +bn The question that I have is how…
If the gcd of 414 and 33 is h, then the gcd of 414 and -33 is also h. So it is sufficient if we find the gcd h between 414 and 33 and then gcd of 414 and -33 is also h only. 414 = 33*12 + 18….
- MATH
cost problem?the transportation cost is $0.1 per 1000 gallons per pipelne mile. what will be the…
The transportation cost of 1000 gallons per pipeline mile is $ 0.1. It is required to find the cost of transportation of 4million gallons for a distance of 120 miles. The procedure is to find how…
- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
How is the contrtast between the city life and village life brought out in the story “The…
Naturally, there is a disparity between urban and rural life in Tagore’s short story. The postmaster, representing the urban setting, cannot fully adjust to life in the small village. He comes to…
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- ROBERT FROST
Please help me interpret the poem “The Line Gang” by Robert Frost.I’m having a really hard time…
In “The Line Gang” Robert Frost describes a team of men who are setting telephone and telegraph wires. They begin by cutting down a forest, “replanting” the logs as telephone poles, and then…
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- THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
How can you say that Santiago is a successful teacher for Manolin in the story?
In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago is a teacher, mentor, and spiritual holy man for his disciple Manolin. Here are some lessons he teaches the boy: Vocation: Santiago teaches the boy the right…
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- THE AWAKENING
How does Kate Chopin uses the characters in The Awakening to cast Edna Pontellier’s desires in…
Kate Chopin was quite wise in surrounding Edna Pontellier with sharply distinctive characters who greatly contrast Edna’s own social status. Instead of corrupting Edna, or trying to change her,…
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- REFERENCE
CHILDREN’S RIGHTSWhat are your opinions on: How children’s rights are denied throughout the…
It would help if you could give us an example or two of what you see as a denial of children’s rights (or what rights children have, in your view). This would affect our answers a lot. For…
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- EDMUND SPENSER
What are some special features of the Amoretti sonnets by Edmund Spenser?
One of the most intriguing aspects of Edmund Spenser’s sonnet sequence known as Amoretti is that the male lover is actually successful in winning the affection of the female beloved. In many…
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- IN THE PENAL COLONY
I need help writing a character sketch about the explorer in ”In the Penal Colony.”
The explorer is a man of restraint and of moral compunction. He is rather aghast at discovering the process of “justice” on the penal colony. Hearing that the man to be put to death has not only…
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- A TALE OF TWO CITIES
what is an example of a rhetorical device in chapters 18-24 of book 2 that serves an ultimate…
Allusion: In Chapter 23 of Book the Second, “The Fire Rises,” the villagers watch the chateau of the Marquis d’Evremond burn: The mender of raods, and two hundred and fifty particular friends,…
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- B. WHITE
Explain the context “everywhere we went I had trouble of making which was I,the one walking at my…
This line is taken from White’s essay “Once More to the Lake.” In this essay, he is talking about how he, as an adult, feels when he brings his son to a lake where he had really enjoyed going on…
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- THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Great question! At the beginning of the story we definitely see Tom behaving almost bratty, and quite childishly. However, throughout many experiences in the story, we certainly can see a change in…
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- MOBY DICK
What is the main theme in Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick?
Herman Melville dedicated his novel, Moby Dick, to Nathaniel Hawthorne and wrote him, “I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.” While there are several major themes in…
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- THE HUMMING-BIRD TREE
In The Humming-bird, how do I defend Alan’s actions in Chapter 3?
Since I have not read this book, I am going to treat your question as an essay question since you asked How to go about it. First of all, you need a list of Alan’s actions or things he has done…
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- TEACHERS
How-To Books for TeachersDoug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion is on Amazon’s top-100 list for 2010….
Funny you should mention that book. A colleague passed me in the halls today and asked if I was teaching like a champion. “No”, I replied, “I’m teaching like a maniac”. All joking aside, I get…
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- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Does Martin Luther King have any credible support of factual evidence or proof to support his…
In my mind, the largest and most credible part of King’s speech was the idea that Civil Rights and the advancement of racial equality was part of American History. Throughout the speech, Dr. King…
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- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
What are the rhetorical or figurative devices used in Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech, “I Have a…
The repetition is something that makes Dr. King’s speech extremely powerful and effective. Repetition as a rhetorical device helps to bring home several ideas. Initially, the repeating of “I Have…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Should voters be tested for competency?Imagine two American voters. Voter A is extremely…
Wouldn’t this be similar to the literacy tests blacks were given and had to pass after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law? While I agree that it is frustrating that people who do not try to…
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- INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY
Discuss Kamala Das as a poet of love.
Das can be considered a poet of love. This love primarily comes from what it means to be a woman. Contrary to much of traditional Indian thought, Das revels in being a woman and the experiences…
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- SCIENCE
If there is a net nonzero force on a moving object, is it possible for the total work done on the…
By definition, work equals to zero when the force acting on the object acts on it perpendicular to the direction of its movement. The easiest way to conceptualize this effect is with uniform…
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- POLITICAL SCIENCE
What specific items ought to be listed on a report card that is used to evaluate a federal…
This will depend a great deal on what sort of a bureaucratic agency we are talking about. The specifics will have to have a lot to do with what kind of service it is supposed to provide. For…
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- SCIENCE
When a rain falls from the sky, what happens to its momentum as it hits the ground? Is your…
To answer this question, the momentum (p) equation will be invaluable: p = mv With the rain drop, m is the mass of the rain drop, and v is its terminal velocity (zero acceleration) through the…
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- MATH
How do I solve this simultaneous equation:x+y=8 x- y=1
We’ll can also solve the system of simultaneous equations using the substitution method (instead of elimination method). For this reason, we’ll extract x from the second equation: x- y=1 We’ll add…
- HISTORY
Was Oliver Cromwell a hero or villian?Was Oliver Cromwell a hero or villian?
I will have to go with hero if those are my two choices. The reason that I come down on that side of the question is that I think that the move towards Parliamentary government was one of the most…
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- THE ROAD
In The Road, what are three possible interpretations of the father’s act of firing the flare into…
Great question! Of course, when we think about the symbolic meanings of acts like the one you referred to, it is often not spelled out directly in the text, but there is enough evidence to infer…
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- OEDIPUS REX
What are two examples of Perpeteia in Oedipus the King? Line numbers would be appreciated.
Peripeteia or a “reversal” or turning point” occurs throughout the story innumerable times. Even in the very beginning by sending Creon to the Oracle at Delphi, Creon returns with bad news that…
- NIGHT
In Night by Elie Wiesel, what are three obstacles to survival that stand in Eliezer’s way?
In Eliezer’s struggle for survival, after he and his father are sent to the first camp at Birkenau and he is separated from his mother and sisters, Eliezer learns that his first obstacle to…
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- CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY
In Cry, the Beloved Country, to what decisions did Kumalo come in Enzenzeleni?Chapters 11-14
Chapter 13 when Kumalo accompanies his friend, Msimangu, to Ezenzeleni, the colony for the blind where whites work and help blacks who are blind or are going blind, is a turning point for Kumalo in…
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- THE CATBIRD SEAT
What are the main sources of this story’s humor?
The American language for sure. The not-so-familiar sayings in the story brought some humour in the text.
- SCIENCE
If you are holding a briefcase by the handle with your arm straight down by your side, does the…
The work done by a force applied on a body is the magnitude of the product of the force applied on the body and its displacement in the direction of the force. When the briefcase is held in your…
- BECKET
How is power portrayed in the movie and in the play Becket?
I have not read the play, but show this film annually in my senior classes when we are studying the Anglo-Saxons. Henry II is portrayed as a beligerent and self-centered king, which I have no doubt…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Indiaan explanation of how change is impacting on everyday life in india.
The change in India has been societal and economic. Young people are going to school to study science and technology in droves. They are also moving to the cities and working odd hours to keep…
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- THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER
In “Rocking-Horse Warrior” by D.H. Lawrence, what significance or association can be attached to…
In “The Rocking-Horse Warrior,” it is fairly easy to determine the symbolic meaning behind D. H. Lawrence’s choice of the name Bassett for the servant who helps young Paul. First (all names…
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- TEACHERS
MLA, APA, or Chicago?What reference and citation styles do you accept for your papers? Do you…
I agree with epollock. The challenge I have is to actually get students to realise that they need to reference in the first place, so to be honest, as long as they pick one system and stick to it…
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- ENOTES EDUCATORS GROUP
Working OnlineIs this the first online job you’ve had in education? How do you feel about…
Yes. Do I get a dollar for a one-word answer? I’ve never had an on-line job before, so I’m not sure. Yes, this is my first on-line education job. I had been a teacher for 22 years before I…
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- HAMLET
In Hamlet, how does Laertes develop as a character through the course of the play Please provide…
At the start of the play Laertes is a concerned brother and a dutiful son. He understands his place in court, as the son of Polonius, and fulfills the ritual of asking the king’s permission to…
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- THE SCARLET LETTER
Examine The Scarlet Letter as an open-ended novel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel The Scarlet Letter might be considered an open-ended novel if you mean the ending has several unanswered questions. How the novel ends for Hester is fairly…