Why does the World State infantilize its citizens?
- A MODEST PROPOSAL
Summarize the 3rd and 4th selections in the satire “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift .
I am not to sure which specific parts of this excellent essay you are referring to. Do you mean the third and fourth paragraphs? Perhaps your copy of this essay is broken down to structure your…
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
Why does the World State infantilize its citizens?
To answer this question, think about what children are like. Children are interested only in their own immediate gratification (more or less) and do not really think much about anything beyond…
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- THINGS FALL APART
What are the events that lead up to Okwonkwo’s exile from his homeland?
In an effort not to appear weak and lazy like his father, Okwonko does several things that eventually lead to his banishment from his village. Okwonko adopts Ikemefuna, a young boy given to…
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- THINGS FALL APART
How does Okonkwo feel about his son Nwoye?
In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo feels ashamed of his son Nwoye in Part I of the novel and betrayed by him in Parts II and III. In Part I, Okonkwo’s greatest fear is that Nwoye will become like his…
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- BEOWULF
In Beowulf, what kind of mood does this long poem convey?
Because it is a long narrative poem, the mood shifts throughout the work, depending on the action or purpose of each scene. It is certainly a mood of terror and suspense when Grendal attacks the…
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- MATH
Why is the process of encoding and decoding important in today’s society considering military and…
Encoding has a number of applications. Foremost is the preservation of privacy or the transmission of sensitive information, for example financial records or military communication. This type of…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
How does Harper Lee create tension in Chapter 28 of To Kill a Mockingbird?
This is a great question as Harper Lee actually uses a false climax in this Chapter to lull us into a false sense of security before the real danger reveals itself. This chapter then deals with the…
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- AS YOU LIKE IT
Roslind is one of the most lively and intelligent shakesphere heroins
HOPE THIS HELPS !!!!!! Certainly Rosalind is one of the most lively and intelligent shakespeare heroines, carrying out wonderfully her disguise as Ganymede. Her love for Celia is deep and sincere….
- THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL
In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” how does the function/symbolism of light relate to Granny’s…
You have asked an excellent question that relates to the ending of the story, the symbolism of the light that Granny Weatherall blows out and also the importance of her jilting to her life and how…
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- ANTIGONE
Give five quotes from Antigone about Creon’s actions.
1) ANTIGONE: For of our two brothers, Creon(20) gives honorable burial to one, but dishonors the other. They say that he hid Eteocles beneath the earth with well-deserved pomp and circumstance, as…
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- MATH
Adults have IQ scres that are normally disributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of…
The problem gives us that adults have an IQ score which is randomly distributed and has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. We need to find the probability that a randomly selected adult…
- MATH
Adults have IQ scores that are normally distibuted with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of…
Here we are given that the mean of the IQ scores of adults is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. We need to find the probability that a randomly selected adult has an IQ greater than 131.5 ….
- MATH
Assume that this information comes from a standard normal distribution where the mean is 0 and…
Here we are given that the mean is equal to 0 and the standard deviation is 1. Now to derive the required probability we need to use a normal distribution table. First we’ll need to convert the…
- A ROSE FOR EMILY
Why does Faulkner use a series of flashbacks to narrate the events in “A Rose for Emily”?
Don’t forget that “A Rose for Emily” is considered both a Gothic short story and a murder mystery. The events in the narrative are not told chronologically, but rather, by a series of flashbacks…
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- MATH
Assume that this information comes from a standard normal distribution where the mean is 0 and…
To find the probability that a standard normal variate with mean zero and standard deviation 1, takes values between 0.50 and 1.50. Or to find P(0.50 < = z < = 1.50). A standard normal…
- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
Explain the phrase “refining gold” in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”.
What the speaker is saying here is that being moved farther apart does not make him and his love any less connected. He is likening their love to gold. He is saying that both of them can be…
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- LUCILLE CLIFTON
Describe the speaker in the poem by Lucille Clifton called “Homage to My Hips.”I think she is…
Lucille Clifton’s “Homage to My Hips” is a wonderfully expressive poem, mostly because of who the speaker is. The poem is written from a first-person point of view, obviously, as she calls them…
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- A ROSE FOR EMILY
In “A Rose for Emily” in your opinion, is Miss Emily a woman to blame or to sympathize?
Well, with a question like this you are bound to get a whole load of different answers – you might want to consider moving this into the discussion post to gain a wider range of answers. For me,…
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- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
The speaker’s claim is that separation will not be end of the relationship he has with his love. The title of the poem, valediction, means a request of a command — to forbid mourning. The poem…
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- ESSAY LAB
Is a one page quote too much for a six page essay? i found some material from an articles that…
If your paper is only 6 pages long, then that quote would be 15% of the text — and it isn’t YOU!. Good research uses sources like what you have found, and selects the most salient points to…
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- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, clarify the metaphor in Stanza 3.
To understand the meaning of Stanza Three in this amazing poem you need to understand what has already been established in Stanzas One and Two. In these first two stanzas, the speaker is…
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- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
Other similes are also found in later stanzas of the poem. In stanza 6, Donne tells his love that their two souls have become one and says that their love will expand “Like gold to airy thinness…
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- MACBETH
I am looking for quotes of the three prophecies the apparitions give to Macbeth in Act IV of…
This is Act IV, scene i, when Macbeth visits the Witches to demand that they answer his questions, so the prophecies are prompted by Macbeth himself in this act, which differs from Act I, when the…
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- RAY BRADBURY
What point of view is “A Sound of Thunder” written in and what is its importance?
When we think of point of view in terms of literature there are three different types that are used mainly by authors: first person, the omniscient point of view (all-knowing) and third person…
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- THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
William James ‘on Mysticism’ in ‘Varieties of Religious experience’I find William James is…
William James’ view on Mysticism is limited to religious and more profoundly to the psychological aspect. What are his limits on this topic? Can one have mystical experience based on persons and on…
- THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
What the theme of “The Most Dangerous Game”?
Well, any reader might come out with a different theme from the same work, so you need to remember that when we think about the theme or the message of a particular text it is going to be…
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- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
I would say that Donne uses this title because it sums up the point that the speaker is trying to make. It is telling the speaker’s love that, although they are parting, there is no reason for…
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- A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
It is impossible to date this poem, and therefore all we can do is surmise that it may have been inspired by the occasion of a trip, upon which the poet found a need to answer objections that might…
- A RED, RED ROSE
Generally, a writer uses similes to enable the reader to imagine in his mind what the writer is saying. This is why a writer compares one thing to another with which the reader is familiar. The…
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- POETRY
Why does he use the figure of speech in Jack Agüeros’s “Sonnet for You, Familiar Famine”?
The poet uses apostrophe to dramatize the nature of hunger and its effects. To write about Famine abstractly, in the third person, would probably require data and statistics, whereas through the…
- HISTORY
Describe the reforms Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin brought to Russia.Did they work?
Piotr Arkadevich Stolypin was appointed as the Russian Minister of the Interior by Czar Nicholas II in May of 1906 and then as the Russian Premier in July. This was a period in Russian history of…
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- POETRY
In Jack Agüeros’s “Sonnet for You, Familiar Famine”, what is the major figure of speech?
The major figure of speech in “Sonnet for You…” is apostrophe. The speaker addresses Famine as a second-person acquaintance. That is, famine is more pervasive in human life than plenty. In…
- JOHN GAY
What is the road in “Let Us Take the Road”?
The word road in line 1 refers to grand theft that occurred on the open highways of eighteenth century England. Even today we still use the phrase “highway robbery,” which originated in this…
- PROOF
In Act 1, scene 4, why did Claire sell the house and what would be the consequence if she didn’t?…
I don’t think Claire sells the house only for financial reasons. Claire and her boyfriend both have good jobs, so it isn’t that she needs the money. Now that Robert has died, Claire feels…
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- GREAT EXPECTATIONS
What can we learn from Pip’s experiences?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Since Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is clearly a bildungsroman, just as Pip learns from his experiences, there is much for the reader to learn, as well. One lesson is that people should…
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- SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
How does the poem “The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence relate to its social background?
It is important to focus on the social realities of Blake’s times and how he comments upon them through his work. In “The Chimney Sweeper”, Blake speaks for the poor children of his day who were…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
In The Great Gatsby, what is Gatsby doing when Nick first sees him?
It is actually only in Chapter Three that Nick meets Gatsby for the first time. This momentous event occurs at one of Gatsby’s party, where Nick mentions that he was one of the few people who…
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- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Name and discuss the features of Romantic poets and poetry which William Wordsworth asserts in…
Much of the basis of Romanticism is brought out in Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads. For example, when Wordsworth argues that poetry must “choose incidents and situations from common life,”…
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- TEACHERS
If I forget the name of the characters from a classic book that I am going to write during my SAT…
This is a tough call. I think that it is better to concede that the name of the character escapes you. It seems really silly that you would try to make up a name for a work of literature. I…
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- LAW AND POLITICS
How do we deter, detect,defend if we have become a victim of identity theft?How do we deter,…
I think that the approach to this has to be twofold. On one hand, I think that lending agencies have to do a very strong and diligent job of making sure that they are monitoring credit habits that…
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- REFERENCE
Is Cooum River a boon or a curse for Chennai?
It might be a bit too harsh to call the river a curse. I think that the fundamental challenge of the river is that it has become subject to a great deal of pollution. The Cooum River is the…
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- POETRY
Can anybody help me understand the poem “Heat” by Hilda Doolittle?
First of all, there are several ways to analyze poetry in order to understand meaning. I think if you bainstorm answers to a few preliminary questions, you might be able to come up with an…
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- LITERATURE
Books you consider a work of art?What are some books you consider a work of art?
This will bring out a bevy of responses. In my mind, I would say that any respected work of literature can be seen as a work of art. There are standards that determine artistic expression in…
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- THE CRUCIBLE
Within The Crucible, what are some themes shown and quotes to back this up?Within The Crucible,…
One of the main themes in The Crucible is Reputation. With so many of the townspeople yelling accusations of witchcraft and pointing fingers, a person’s reputation became a thing of utmost…
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- LITERATURE
What is there to say about romanticism and realism in America?
I think that Realism in America was vastly different than Romanticism or a Transcendentalist articulation. The emphasis on economic conditions and material reality is something that we see in…
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- MACBETH
What does the line from Macbeth mean, “They smack of honour both”?
In Act 1 Scene 2 of Macbeth, King Duncan has received word that Macbeth and Banquo have fought valiantly in battle against the Norwegian army. King Duncan asks the Captain if Macbeth and Banquo…
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- THE ROAD
Why is The Road such a good book?Why is The Road such a good book?
This is a discussion question, but I’ll start it. The Road is beautifully crafted. McCarthy’s ability to transcend the post-apocalyptic genre with lean, tender poetry is a small miracle. Just…
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- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
What purpose do Dogberry and Verges serve in Much Ado About Nothing?
In general, these characters would have been known as the clowns, since, in Shakespeare’s day, comic actors were called clowns. Shakespeare wrote for a company of actors, which means that he…
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- SCIENCE
Do you think nuclear power is a good or bad idea?Do you think nuclear power is a good or bad idea?
Nuclear reactors are capable of producing a great deal of energy from a small amount of fuel– one kilogram of Uranium-235 converted by nuclear processes contains approximately three million times…
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- THE SNIPER
Does “The Sniper” contain any symbolism?
This is a good question, because, at first glance, this story of suspense does not seem to contain anything that could be argued to be a symbol. However, I think there is a case to think of the…