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Salvation"Salvation" by Langston Hughes is actually a short excerpt from his autobiography, The Big Sea. Autobiography is generally considered a genre of nonfiction as it discusses real rather than...
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Son of the RevolutionSon of the Revolution isn't a novel, but it certainly reads like one. It's a fascinating, searing, at times deeply tragic first-hand account of the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution in China. As...
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Ruth RendellMystery author Ruth Rendell is a masterful writer of plot twists. She knows exactly how to make everything seem obvious, right up until the very last moment. In her short story, The Wrong...
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We the AnimalsWhat is the motif of animals throughout the novel,how is it being used throughout the story? What...The central motif of We The Animals is children-as-animals. A secondary motif broadens out the original one to include all humans in the story. Although in this particular animal farm, some animals...
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MathGiven that a funnel is in the shape of a cone with , radius = r= 5 inch height = h= 20 inch We know that the volume of the cone is given by the formula: `Volume=V=\frac{1}{3}\pi r^2 h` i.e....
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Langston Hughes"Let America Be America Again" was written by African-American poet Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. The poem discusses the United States as a...
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The Uses of EnchantmentIn his book Uses of Enchantment, Bettleheim argued that rather than keeping children away from the harsh realities revealed in fairy tales, they should be exposed to them. Bettleheim argued that...
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The Boy in the Striped PajamasOne of the most important rules that Bruno must follow at home is to never enter his father's office. Bruno's father is a high-ranking Nazi commandant, who conducts business from his home office...
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Winter DreamsFitzgerald's story in many ways prefigures The Great Gatsby because Dexter possesses many of the same yearnings that Jay Gatsby does. Both men are outsiders who find a way into the worlds they...
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HistoryAppeasement was the name given to the policy taken by France and Britain toward Adolf Hitler's regime during the late 1930s in the period right before WWII. Both Britain and France believed that...
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Racism in LiteratureTo understand literary fiction, a reader must understand the different thought processes of varied characters. Tragedies are impossible to grasp unless one understands the conflicting desires that...
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HistoryJoan of Arc was a woman of faith, filled with conviction that so compelled her to take action in a culture and time of a seemingly unending, generational war. She was born in 1412 during The...
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The CrucibleIn Act III, John Proctor comes to the court with a deposition with nearly a hundred signatures of people who are willing to serve as character witnesses for Elizabeth Proctor, Martha Corey, and...
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HistoryLeonardo is primarily famous as a Renaissance artist. He is especially remembered for two works of art: the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. However, he is also important as an overall genius, with...
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HistoryIndulgences were a theological principle of forgiveness and punishment in the Catholic Church. In its original form, an Indulgence was a way of escaping punishment in the afterlife for one's sins....
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefPercy and Grover travel back to New York City by plane. This may seem like a bit of an anticlimax, but it's actually significant. Percy is a half-blood son of the "big three" gods, entangling him...
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Harrison BergeronAll of the characters in Harrison Bergeron struggle to a certain degree. The people in society who have anything special to brag of (beauty, brains, strength, etc.) are forced to handicap...
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The CrucibleWhen Rebecca Nurse enters Betty Parris's bedroom, seeing the sick child, she is a calming and common sense presence, and just her mere presence seems to comfort the child. When Mr. Putnam asks if...
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HistoryThe case of Fletcher v Peck (1810) culminated in a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. For the first time ever, the Court ruled that a state law was unconstitutional. This was a...
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LiteratureWhen Tessie Hutchinson hears that her husband, Bill, has drawn the slip of paper that means someone in his family will be sacrificed in the next round of the drawing, Tessie protests to the...
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The Most Dangerous GameThis question could be referring to two possible points in the story. It depends on exactly which parts of the story a reader considers a part of the resolution. The biggest plot twist occurs...
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Of Mice and MenIt's not entirely clear why Lennie would be described as "kind." He certainly has a gentle, child-like quality to him. But that's because he appears to have the mental age of a child, whereas...
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Good-bye, Mr. ChipsWhen Ralston suggest that Chips should retire, it's a total surprise. Chips has never liked Ralston. He feels that he's more of a hyper-efficient bureaucrat than a teacher, certainly not a molder...
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LiteratureSituational irony takes place when actions have an opposite effect from what was originally intended. In "The Necklace" Mathilde, despite her relatively lowly station in life thinks herself so much...
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LiteratureThe resolution of a story takes place after the climax. It is the part of the story where the conflict comes to an end. In Kate Chopin's "Désirée's Baby," the resolution comes after Désirée...
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Julius CaesarThe most prominent leadership quality in Brutus is his fierce and selfless loyalty to his country. He is more loyal to the republic of Rome than to Caesar. It is for the good of Rome that he will...
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Romeo and JulietWhat english device is used when in Romeo and Juliet romeo says'for stony limits cannot hold love...When Romeo sees Juliet on the balcony overlooking her garden after the big party at the Capulets' house, he tells her, With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls,For stony limits cannot...
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HistoryJulius Caesar's most famous accomplishments were on the battlefield. He successfully invaded Gaul, present-day France and Belgium. This is important because the tribes there attacked Rome....
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To Kill a MockingbirdIn Harper Lee's famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character, Scout, is very young. In Chapter 14 of the book, she asks her father, the lawyer Atticus Finch, to explain what rape is,...
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ReferenceLike any respectable matriarch of the time Mrs. Bennet is keen to ensure that her daughters are married off as soon as possible to a "single man in possession of a good fortune." Her relationship...
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The Vicar of WakefieldTo a large extent both Olivia and Sophia reflect the characteristics of their father. They are fundamentally kind, decent, respectable people, but they too have their faults and are prone to making...
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The Yellow WallpaperBy the time the narrator references a person named "Jane" in the final lines of the story, she believes herself now to be the woman in the wallpaper. We can see, some lines before, that the...
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Social SciencesThe effects of the slave trade were numerous and long-term, and are, arguably, still being felt in our present-day. The two most important effects to consider are economic and cultural. The New...
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HistoryHammurabi’s Code is one of the oldest comprehensive set of laws governing ancient society. King Hammurabi ruled Babylon from 1792-1750 BCE and expanded the smaller city-state into a full-fledged...
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HistoryThe TVA, or Tennessee Valley Authority, was one of a number of agencies set up by FDR under the New Deal to help tackle the chronic economic problems of the Great Depression. More specifically, the...
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LiteratureFor a thorough exploration of this question, it might be helpful to consult the two-volume work, The Enlightenment by the late historian Peter Gay. Gay's thesis hinges on the notion that the...
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Social SciencesTrust in this context can be defined as the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone. The consensus is that trust has to be earned. What this means is that the person...
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneThe adults in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first Harry Potter novel, cluster in two opposite categories: the bad authority figures and the good authority figures. Bad authority...
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HistoryThe Declaration of Independence was written in the neoclassical/Age of Reason period in history. This period of time was defined by the movement toward the belief that people were rational beings...
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Law and PoliticsThis is a very subjective question, and my answer might not match your opinion. When forming your own answer about unjust laws, consider Popular opinion: does the general populace find the law...
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The Beach of FalesáIn sociology, a homosocial relationship is one between two people of the same sex which is not of a sexual or romantic nature. Most people these days are familiar with the word "bromance," which...
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Yellow WomanPick a specific passage from "Yellow Woman," and describe how it demonstrates the theme and culture."'What story?' He smiled and pulled me close to him as he said this. I was afraid lying there on the red blanket. All I could know was the way he felt, warm, damp, his body beside me. This is...
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King Solomon's MinesThe reader can get a sense of the centrality of homosociality to King Solomon's Mines by simply reading the dedication from the fictional hero Allan Quatermain. It reads "to all the big and little...
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BeowulfI believe that a reader could make a case for each of those labels about Grendel. I think it's legitimately possible to say that Grendel is all three as well. Let's start with Grendel's...
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The OdysseyI'd say it's a combination of the two. Certainly, Odysseus was smart enough to tell Polyphemus that his name is "Nobody" so that the Cyclops cannot identify his attacker to his peers. He knows...
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The Monkey's PawW.W. Jacobs's masterful diction suggests that the paw is a frightening, sinister force with which no one should tamper. When he provides Sergeant Major Morris's initial descriptions of the paw, he...
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Everything That Rises Must ConvergeOn the bus, Julian's mother is engaged in a conversation with another woman, and she tells this woman that Julian wants to be a writer but that he is selling typewriters for now, until he's able to...
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Miss BrillMiss Brill imagines herself to be quite a proper lady. She decided to wear her fur, a "Dear little thing!" for her Sunday out to the park to hear the band play. She likes to sit and watch the...
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LiteratureThroughout Animal Farm, Orwell condemns the misuse of power by depicting how Napoleon tyrannically rules the farm. Napoleon requires the animals to work long hours, barely feeds them, and...
