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To Kill a MockingbirdAunt Alexandra is the typical Southern belle, who enjoys socializing with her female neighbors, being involved in the community, and dressing like a presentable, delicate woman. In contrast, Scout...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets(All line citations are taken from the text available at the Shakespeare Online reference provided.) Question 1: Which of the following best describes the whole structure of the poem as a whole? A)...
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Thomas Hardy"What are the implications of capitalism in Tess of the d'Urbervilles?" This is a very creative question because it asks you to take a concept from economics, capitalism, and apply it to a critical...
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Tess of the d'UrbervillesCapitalism is undoubtedly an important background theme in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. This is not altogether surprising when one considers the wider cultural context in which the story was...
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The AwakeningDescribe the novel's settings and explain the significance of each. The Awakening begins at an enchanting seaside resort, where upper-class families are vacationing. Opening the novel with this...
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HistoryHi Camille, I made some changes to your essay using the "track changes" feature, so you will need to approve each change. Make sure you think about why each change was made! I also added a few...
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Ruth RendellAuthor Ruth Rendell was a master of writing mystery stories. In her collection of short stories entitled A Fever Tree and Other Stories, she includes a story called The Wrong Category. This story...
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ReferenceFor this assignment, I recommend choosing a video advertisement that uses more than one rhetorical element for you to analyze. You may want to frame your analysis within the three main types of...
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ReferenceThe theme of "The Escape" by J.B. Stamper is punishment. Boris is being punished for what's described as a terrible crime. He fully admits that he did it. He decides to escape that punishment --...
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Reference1) Is there room for progressive education within a world of high-stakes testing? Are our schools...There is room for progressive schools in a world where high-stakes testing exists. While it may be easier to accomplish this in private schools, which are not required to give so many high-stakes...
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LiteratureAs Wordsworth did not write a poem called "Seven," I will answer this question on the assumption that it refers to Wordsworth's "We Are Seven," and to Leopardi's "To Sylvia". Both these poems are...
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HistoryJohn Winthrop stated that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be “a city on top of a hill” and “a beacon to mankind.” John Winthrop believed this colony would be a shining example for the...
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The Scarlet LetterHester suffers as a result of the "innumerable throbs of anguish that had been so cunningly contrived for her by the undying, the ever-active sentence of the Puritan tribunal," and this produces...
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A Magnificent CatastropheThis book is about the fateful election of 1800 between John Adams, a Federalist from Massachusetts, and Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican from Virginia. The election, referred to as the...
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A Magnificent CatastrophePulitzer-Prize winner Edward J. Larson’s book A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign recounts the events that resulted in Thomas...
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A Magnificent CatastropheThe main characters in this book, which is about the watershed election of 1800 in the United States, are as follows: Thomas Jefferson: He was from the Democratic-Republican Party (called the...
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A Magnificent CatastropheThe theme I want to look at is the intensely personal nature of politics set out in the book. All of the main players in the 1800 election knew each other quite well. Many of them, most notably...
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A Magnificent CatastropheA Magnificent Catastrophe by Edward Larson provides a fast-paced, rip-roaring narrative of the 1800 Presidential election, arguably one of the most important in American history. At the start,...
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ReferenceA bowling ball weighing 16 pound rolls down the lane at 8 m/s. The ball does not slip, and friction, as well as air resistance, can be ignored. The mass of the ball is 16 pound which is equivalent...
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HamletIn act 2, scene 2, Polonius, in his characteristically long-winded way, tells Gertrude that her son is mad. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but, as usual, there is nothing particularly brief about...
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BusinessMoney is a medium of exchange. Early economies functioned on a barter system. If you had sheep and needed grain, then you would look for someone who had grain and hope they needed sheep--or, if...
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HistoryThe American colonies never achieved democratic government. They made great strides towards it and laid the foundation for the democratic republic formed by the United States Constitution, but the...
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HamletThe deaths of Hamlet and Laertes mark the end of the tragic denouement of the play. Laertes, bent on avenging the deaths of his father and sister, both of which he blames on Hamlet, conspires with...
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ReferenceThe purpose of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is to ensure that all web content is accessible to people with disabilities; by ensuring access, Act 508 ensures that learning...
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LiteratureThe garden inside the Ndume School's compound symbolizes Nancy and Michael's dream of reforming the old school by making it modern and beautiful. Achebe writes that Nancy's "dream-garden" had...
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A Separate PeaceOne of the more memorable physical alterations that Gene has with another student takes place in chapter 6. Following Finny's dismal from school because of his injury, Gene quits playing sports and...
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The Wonder SpotThe Wonder Spot is a “chick-lit” coming of age novel by award-winning author Melissa Banks. At the opening of the book, we are introduced to our protagonist, Sophie Applebaum, who is riding in...
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The DestructorsIn Graham Greene's 1954 short story, the main character is Trevor, or "T," as he prefers to be called to downplay his "posh" upbringing. Blackie could be considered another major character, since...
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A Raisin in the SunMama's plant, the only bit of green in the tenement space that she shares with her son, Walter Younger, his wife Ruth, their son Travis, and Mama's daughter, Beneatha, is symbolic of hope. The hope...
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HistoryDescribe the causes, events, and consequences of Shays' rebellion from the perspective of someone...Shays' Rebellion occurred in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The farmers in these areas were upset that they were losing their farms and being put in jail because they...
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HistoryWe'll start by addressing the first part of your question. Bacon's Rebellion (1676–1677) Participants: Nathaniel Bacon, Governor Sir William Berkeley, colonists loyal to Bacon, and colonists...
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HistoryThomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and in so doing he created a new nation and took humanity one step closer to recognizing the rights of all to participate in...
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HistoryYou can answer this question in a number of ways and use different historical sources. You might want to look at chapter 1 of Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. This chapter...
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Law and PoliticsAs the article explains, 70% of US businesses are formed as sole proprietorships. The main reason for this is that the simplicity of the structure makes this the easiest type of business to form...
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Social SciencesConscription occurs anytime a government imposes military enrollment on its citizenry. Conscription was a common practice for European nations during World War I, and Germany's system can be taken...
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Greasy LakeAt first, the lake is a place where the narrator and his friends enjoy all the carefree and semi-wild carousings of youth: they enjoy the lake as a natural place, a backdrop to drinking beer,...
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The Yellow WallpaperWhat does the woman behind the wallpaper represent? How does the narrator come to identify with her?The woman behind the wallpaper represents the narrator herself, which is why she comes to identify with the woman. Over the course of the story, the narrator gradually sees this woman in more...
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Social SciencesThe answer to your very interesting question will depend upon your perspective regarding war. First, you will have to decide whether the war was justified. Was World War I fought to defend the...
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A Rose for EmilyAlthough Emily murders Homer Barron in this narrative, the story is less about Emily's act of murder and more about Emily herself and her experiences with death. The murder of Homer is indeed a...
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Moral DisorderIn Moral Disorder, the central character, Nell, makes a variety of difficult choices about whether to have a family, her relationship with a married man, and managing her relationship with the...
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A Clean, Well-Lighted PlaceThe thematic concerns of Hemingway's 1933 story have to do with the divide between youth and age and whether life has any meaning beyond what we ascribe to it. The perspective of the older waiter...
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HistoryWonder Woman was unique in large part because she was a woman. When the vast majority of the superheroes in comics were male, empowering a woman with superhuman capabilities made a liberating...
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LiteratureWollstonecraft's ideas were considered radical in her time, but to us they can seem tame and even conservative. In her Vindication of the Rights of Women, she advocates for better education for...
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Business1. The attached article gives a fairly balanced view of the proposed increase of the minimum wage in California to $15/hr. It cites an economist, Michael Reich, as suggesting the minimum wage...
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FrankensteinFrankenstein deludes himself into thinking that he's creating the monster for the betterment of humankind. In actual fact, it's nothing more than a monument to his own monstrous ego. In modern...
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LiteratureIs it the conflict within or conflict between characters that makes Shakespeare's play King Henry...Henry V takes place against the backdrop of The Hundred Years' War, which, as the name suggests, was a long, drawn-out conflict—a particularly brutal one at that—between England and France. The...
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HistoryIt was radical for many reasons. First, a group of colonists whom many considered to be shopkeepers and farmers were seeking to overthrow the most powerful nation on Earth and establish their own...
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HatchetPaulson's choice of a third limited point of view for Hatchet succeeds on several levels. Yet this choice poses two distinct questions. Why not the first person, and why not the third person...
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ReferenceHow does John Rupert Firth describe the concept of context of utterances in linguistics? Please provide examples. A leading figure in linguistics in the 1950s, John Rupert Firth’s work gave rise...
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ReferenceRoy Harris was a linguistics professor who spent the past 25 years researching the development of an integrative approach to signs and semiological systems. He believed that this research was...
