Why is the McCulloch v. Maryland case important?
- BUSINESS
Use STEP analysis model to discuss the following case with examples of social factors from…
HiFor this one you need to read the short case and then answer the following question in (5) pagesYou need to follow the steps i identified below from 1-8, becasue this is the sequence of answer as…
- LAW AND POLITICS
Why is the McCulloch v. Maryland case important?
This case is important because it set up the idea that the federal government can do more or less whatever it wants. It set up a broad definition of the power of Congress under the Constitution….
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
LonelinessDo you choose to be lonley? Yes or No?
You mean do people in general choose whether or not to be lonely? I think it depends, but I would say in general, they do not. I think that many people who are lonely are lonely because they lack…
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- SCIENCE
How can the Finite Element Method help the design engineer with product design in relation to…
Finite element analysis allows engineers to model a system before having to construct a complicated or expensive prototype. A computer model saves time and money, and leads to a better design by…
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- NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
McCarthy will often tell the reader that one of his characters is “thinking things over” What…
The main purpose in suing phrases such as “thinking things over” is to add realism to a story. In most literature, characters are not indecisive or hesitant in their thinking. By using this phrase,…
- THE DRUNKARD
What is the type of conflict in The Drunkard? is it man vs man or man vs society or other?I am…
Larry is the protagonist. He has a man vs. man conflict with his father. Larry would have preferred to stay home and take care of his brother, but his mother needed him to act as a “brake” on his…
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- LITERATURE
Need suggestions of classic American literature for two small groups of middle school students (1…
Well, there are clearly plenty of ideas you can choose from. My own ideas would be something like The Giver, The Cay or The Outsiders. If those aren’t “classic” enough for you you can try real…
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- STUDENT STUDY TIPS
Study Tip- The Extra BinderThis tip has saved me on many tests- the first step to this tip is to…
This is a nice idea. It’s good to keep things until you know for sure you won’t need them. You might use them for another class, and wish you had kept things. Keeping things in a binder can be…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
Essay Help: What 3 things you will learn about yourself if you got on honour roll? for ex: goal…
I am not sure what you are looking for, but I think that three things someone could learn about themselves from being on the honor roll would include discipline, meaning the discipline to stay on…
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- DÉSIRÉE’S BABY
How do I come up with a thesis statement for “Desiree’s Baby,” referring to racial…
Are you writing on both topics, or do you have to choose one? If you are discussing the broader subject of racial undertones, your thesis sentence should suggest something about race in the story…
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- ROALD DAHL
lamb to the slaughterhow would you describe mary’s character by the end of the story
I’d say that she is very self-reliant and tough. I do not think you could have described her this way at the start of the story. At the start, she seemed like someone who totally relied on her…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
In To Kill a Mockingbird, how do the children’s perception and the reader’s perception of Boo…
It is important to remember that we are told the story from Scout’s perspective, using the first person point of view. Therefore we see everything through her child-like eyes. What is key to focus…
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- ROBERT FROST
In the poem “Desert Places,” what multiple denotations of the word “benighted” are functional in…
The “denotation” of a word is the actual, dictionary definition. In the same vein, the “connotation” is the suggestion of the meaning of a word apart from what it explicitly means. By definition,…
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- THE SCARLET LETTER
In The Scarlet Letter, explain the Puritan attitude toward luxury and how Governor Bellingham and…
It becomes abundantly clear that Arthur Dimmesdale is not the only character in the novel who is living a kind of double life. Ostensibly at least, Puritanism eschewed luxury and embraced a simple,…
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- HISTORY
Which nation emerged stronger after the Thirty Years’ War?
I do not think that the 30 Years War was really good for any nation, but I suppose that you could at least make the argument that France emerged stronger after this war. The Holy Roman Empire was…
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- MATH
Give me an example of function decomposition question.
For instance, we’ll take the function h(x)=sqrt(x^2 + 1) and we’ll have to decompose it into simpler functions: h(x) = f(g(x)) We can take g(x) = x^2 + 1 and f(x) = sqrt x Now, we’ll compose f(x)…
- BEOWULF
In Beowulf, how does this long poem convey the somber and mournful mood?
In the epic poem Beowulf, the sombre mournful mood is well portrayed by the atmospheric description. The keening women filling the air with their sorrowful crying song, the building of the funeral…
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- THE NECKLACE
What is the characterization of Monsieur Loisel in “The Necklace”?
“The Necklace” is not Monsieur Loisel’s story, so most of what we know about him is conveyed through his connection to his wife Mathilde. M. Loisel is a man who is content with what he has and…
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- HISTORY
Which social forces were most responsible for the new imperialism that began in the late 19th and…
I would say that the social force most responsible for this was ethnocentrism. This could be seen in the idea of Manifest Destiny and in the idea of the White Man’s Burden that was so important in…
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- ANZIA YEZIERSKA
What event signifies the climax of the story “The Lost Beautifulness” by Anzia Yezierska?
In Yezierska’s short story “The Lost Beautifulness,” the climax occurs when Hanneh destroys the beauty she has created in the kitchen. The story revolves around the kitchen she has painted for her…
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- HISTORY
Who offered most revolutionary critique of British form of Government, Thomas Paine’s Common…
In my opinion, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet offers by far a more revolutionary critique of the British form of government. I would say that Jefferson criticizes the actions of the current British…
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- ANZIA YEZIERSKA
Give example of irony in the story “The Lost Beautifulness” by Anzia Yezierska.
In the story “The Lost Beautifulness” by Anzia Yezierska, the greatest irony occurs at the end of the story. Hanneh has saved her pennies over the years by doing extra laundry for her employer Mrs….
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- ANZIA YEZIERSKA
What style of narration was used in the story “The Lost Beautifulness” by Anzia Yezierska?
One part of the narrative style used in writing is the point of view. In Anzia Yezierska’s short story “The Lost Beautifulness,” the story is told from the third person point of view, omniscient….
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- BRAVE NEW WORLD
What are the tasks/jobs each caste in the caste system carry out in Brave New World?
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, there are five genetically-dictated castes that inhabit the New World. In the supposed utopia, these predestined humans are named after the letters of the Greek…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
does music influence people shopping habits. Is it used to pacify people. how is music used to…
Music is energetic in stores to excite people into purchasing products. If you go to an Abercrombie store you’ll notice the trendy exciting beat blasting over the speakers. If they had really…
- HISTORY
How is it that Parliament could sincerely pass the “Act of Supremacy”?
I am not sure what you mean when you ask how Parliament could do this “sincerely.” I am going to assume you are asking how they could just go and declare that there was a separate English church…
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- OTTO OF THE SILVER HAND
In Otto of the Silver Hand, because of Baron Henry, what did little Otto only have one of?
It is in Chapter Eight that Baron Henry chops of Otto’s hand as an act of vengeance for the way that his father was killed by Otto’s father. Yet, because of the younger target audience of this…
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- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
What is the rhythm in Sir Philip Sidney’s poem “My True Love Hath My Heart”? How can it be…
The rhythm, or meter, of this poem is iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is the most common meter in British poetry (especially pre-twentieth century), and it also the meter that most resembles…
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- ANTIGONE
Please provide five quotations from Sophocles’ Antigone regarding actions of Creon that make the…
In Antigone, both Creon and Antigone can be interpreted as tragic figures. By the conclusion of the drama, Antigone is dead and Creon’s life is so unbearable he longs for death. Throughout the…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
Why does the author have the atomic war preparations going on throughout the story?
The preparations for the nuclear war that go on throughout the book are a form of foreshadowing. At the end of the book, the city where Montag had lived gets destroyed in a nuclear explosion. We…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
If you were interviewing someone about bullying in high school, what six questions would you…
This is an interesting, timely topic. We hear about bullying regularly in our schools. This is both bad and good; it’s bad because the prevalence of bullying seems to be rising, but it’s good…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
In Chapter 6, Ralph and Jack stand looking at the sea. What does this episode demonstrate about…
At the point you mention, Ralph is realizing the power of the tide and the fact that time and space and motivation have positioned the boys far enough away from the fire that it is sure to become…
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- A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, how would you go about writing a reaction paper to it?Need…
Since a response, or reaction, paper is written to help the reader better understand how he feels about a literary work, the focus is on the reader’s own personal feelings. Thus it is advisable…
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- RAY BRADBURY
Identify some stylistic devices used in “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury.
Of course, any work of fiction will contain a large number of stylistic devices that are used by the author to establish meaning, create pictures in their readers’ minds and communicate the theme…
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- LITERATURE
What does the poem “In Flanders Field” teach you about the nature of war?
I would say that this poem is trying to tell us that war is sad but it is also in some way honorable or at least necessary. We can clearly see that war is tragic in the first two stanzas. The…
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- 1984
What does the prostitute’s old age say about Winston and his mother?
Winston’s real mother who he has dreams of throughout the book makes Winston feel like she died or was erased because of him. Her life paid for the opportunity for his to remain. That sacrifice…
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- LITERATURE
In the poem “In Flanders Field” by John McCrae what is the dominant emotion?
I would say that the dominant emotion here is patriotism. This is not one of the WWI poems like those of Owen that talk about how terrible the war was. This is a poem that asserts that the war…
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- THE REVOLT OF ‘MOTHER’
Why is the main character in “The Revolt of the ‘Mother.” considered a round, dynamic character?
The main character is round and dynamic because she is fully developed and undergoes a change. A round character is one where many traits are described. We know that Sarah Penn is stubborn,…
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- A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
Why does O’Conner use for violence in her stories (like “A Good Man is Hard to Find”) to get the…
O’Connor is an Old Testament “hell, fire, and brimstone” comic writer who uses grotesques to violently and comically expose her luke-warm Christian characters. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the…
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- DEAR MR. HENSHAW
What is an example that shows that Leigh Botts is sensitive?
One example is that Leigh let his dad take his dog when he went to work as a truck driver. Leigh knew the dog would keep his dad from getting lonely in the truck on long drives. He was also…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What are some allusions in Chapters 1-15 in To Kill a Mockingbird? Please explain the use of the…
CHAPTER 1 “If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the river…” refers to the Removal Act of 1830 and Andrew Jackson’s conflict with the Creek Indians in Alabama in the first decade of the…
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- SCIENCE
For a debate, how can I argue that food choices don’t affect climate change?We got assigned these…
I think that you would have a hard time saying that food choices have “no” effect on global climate change. However, I think that you could make a few arguments based on this prompt. First, I…
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- NIGHT
In the book Night, in Chapter 3, what were the prisoners’ rations at each meal?
Chapter 3 narrates the horrific events that occur when Elie and his father arrive at Auschwitz and begin to learn the true reality of what is happening to them and how they are to be treated….
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- LITERATURE
What is the importance of the setting in “As I Lay Dying”, “Quicksand”, and “My Antonio”?
The constant changing of locations is vitally important to As I Lay Dying. Setting in this instance serves as a physical representation of the emotional journey that each of the characters is…
- JULIUS CAESAR
Please give an example of apostrophe from Act II of Julius Caesar.
In literary terms, apostrophe is when a person (on stage, in the case of a play) addresses a person or other entity (like a god or a city) that is not physically present on the stage. There are a…
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- MATH
x 1 2 3 4 P(x) .54 0.16 0.06 0.04 0.20 calculate mean value of x and probability that x exceeds…
You have only provided 4 values of x, so I am taking the 5th value of x as 5. So we now have the values of x as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and their probabilities as 0.54, 0.16, 0.06, 0.04 and 0.20. Now the…
- GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS
What should you be aware of when you encounter a first person narrator?
This is an excellent question because it draws attentions to both the limitations and strengths of adopting a first person point of view in narration. Certainly we need to be aware of the great…
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- OZYMANDIAS
What are some figurative devices in the poem “Ozymandias”?
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s classic poem, “Ozymandias,” is remarkably lacking in figurative language such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. The descriptions of the ruined statue of…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
How does Lee vividly convey the drama in the courtroom?
Part of the drama that builds during the Tom Robinson trial comes from the superb characterizations that Lee draws of Mayella and Bob Ewell. Both had only been mentioned briefly prior to the trial,…
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- RELIGION
How may a Christian marriage reflect their beliefs?can you help me i have to write 30 lines :/
Christians view marriage like the relationship between Jesus and the church or his followers. Jesus is the bridegroom and his followers are the bride. Thus, images of protection and wisdom follow…
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