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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 now 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...
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A Magnificent CatastropheThis book is about the fateful election of 1800 between Federalist John Adams of Massachusetts and Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson of Virginia (and his running mate, Aaron Burr). 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 to...
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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's 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Tales of a Fourth Grade NothingSince Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a work of fiction, there is little we can learn directly from reading the story. We should not assume that any of the characters act as a mouthpiece for the...
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LiteratureLink, like a lot of Southern white children at the time, was raised by a black nanny. In his case, it was Nana Healey. Nana is a kind, caring, considerate lady who takes very good care of Link. He...
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LiteratureImagist poetry is rather distinct from Symbolist poetry. The former developed in England and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century as an alternative to Romantic and...
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SlamNick Hornby's novel Slam centers around a teenage boy named Sam and the many connections in his life to teenage pregnancy. On his sixteenth birthday, Sam's girlfriend Alicia tells him she might be...
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ReferenceThis standard brainteaser has a simple answer: you are on the North Pole. Because "north" is measured relative to the North Pole—and because traveling east and west preserves your distance from...
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ReferenceCentripetal force is the force required to keep an object moving in a circle. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, so, to prevent spinning objects from flying off in the straight line that...
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ReferenceThis question gives us the 45-degree angular velocity of a golf ball. Our first step is to split that angular vector into the ball's upwards momentum (which fights gravity) and its forward momentum...
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ReferenceWhen you throw a golf ball straight up, assuming that wind and air resistance are irrelevant, it is pulled back down by gravity, which decelerates it by 9.8 meters/second every second. That...
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ReferenceThis question is missing some basic assumptions, but based on the standard way these questions are typically phrased, I am assuming that the friction and air resistance are irrelevant. Given that,...
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ReferenceThe question you posed is a famous brainteaser. It is often used in the technology industry. The key idea to grasp in this question is that the earth is a sphere. Therefore, if a person is at the...
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Annie JohnFor most of her life, Annie's identity has been intimately bound up with the extraordinarily relationship she has with her mother. When she hits puberty and their relationship breaks down, she has...
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Annie JohnI have an essay about Annie John (approximatively 3 pages) and I have to answer to this question:...Annie's relationship with her mother is arguably the most important relationship in the book. At the start of the story, Annie is as close to her mom as any child could be. The whole world revolves...
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MathHello! We can find the rate at which sand is leaking in volume per time. It is natural to measure time in minutes and volume in cubical inches for this problem. Denote the radius of the cone (and...
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HistoryThe first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence has to do with the ideas of inalienable rights or natural rights, a core idea of the Enlightenment. Inalienable rights, referred to in the...
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Second Language AcquisitionComing from an English as a Foreign Language specialist, the universal consensus is that you should teach any foreign language completely, along with its rules, meanings, proper and ethical usage....
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ReferenceI believe that this question is asking a straightforward velocity and distance question without having to calculate for things like friction and rates of acceleration and deceleration of the boat....
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The Giver1. Jonas's training will alienate him from his friends and family since he will not be allowed to discuss it with them. He will be afraid that he might mistakenly do or say something that he is not...
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HistoryThe United States and France were having some difficulties, partly because of the Jay Treaty (which George Washington signed to prevent a war with Great Britain). The Jay Treaty limited France's...
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ScienceTo understand this, we must first provide definitions for "disaster" and "hazard" in order to differentiate between the two. According to Merriam-Webster, there are a few definitions each for...
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A Rose for EmilyWilliam Faulkner explores the theme of death throughout his short story "A Rose for Emily," which symbolically represents the decay of the Old South and the fall of the Confederacy following the...
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Fahrenheit 451At the end of part two, Montag leaves Faber's house and travels home to find Mildred and her friends watching the parlor wall televisions. Montag, who is furious with society, attempts to shock the...
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Tuck EverlastingBasically, the man in the yellow suit plans to sell the water to the highest bidder. In exchange for returning Winnie Foster to her home, the man in the yellow suit will become the sole owner of...
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HistoryThurgood Marshall, who later became a Supreme Court justice, was the attorney who worked with the NAACP to challenge the Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in the Supreme Court in...
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Everyday UseDee (Wangero) makes her comment in the context of a conversation about what to do with quilts that were made from "pieces of dresses [that] Grandma used to wear." Their mother has promised the...
