A hook statement is used at the beginning of an essay to grab readers' attention and prepare them for the argument you are going to make. Let's look at some possible hooks that may lead into an...

The practical reason for the circumlocutions Gulliver uses to talk to the Houyhnhnms in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is communication. The Houyhnhnms do not think or speak like human beings...

This website succinctly lays out four arguments against a bottled water ban as well as four in favor of one. You should be able to incorporate them into your essay to make your argument. Let's look...

Denote the angle `B A C ` as `alpha .` Then the angles `A B C ` and `A C B ` are equal to `pi / 2 - alpha / 2 . ` Because of this, `P X = P B * sin (pi / 2 - alpha / 2 ) = P B * cos (alpha / 2 ) `,...

There are numerous programs online that generate spider diagrams. Some, like the one linked below, are free to use. Alternatively, you can draw your own spider diagram by placing the phrase...

The story "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri is told in the third-person point of view, but the perspective is largely that of Mr. Kapasi, the interpreter. Let's look at why this is...

As a pacifist striving to effect social change, John Lewis drew a lot of inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience essay. Let's look at how this was a major influence on him. In the...

The theme of the book shifts as the novel progresses, including the power dynamics among the boys. Simon and Roger react to the changing society in very different ways. At the beginning, Roger...

"The Lost Ghost" undermines domestic sphere values from two different perspectives. First, there is the child's mother, through whom Mary Wilkins inserts a picture of human evil into the very heart...

Taxes and death both play a significant role in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." Let's take a look at how the author presents these two motifs to help you get started on your question. Turn...

The main character in Black Cherry Blues is Dave Robicheaux, who appears in two earlier novels by James Lee Burke, The Neon Rain and Heaven's Prisoners. Robicheaux is a former homicide detective...

Shasta stays hidden among the tombs when he sees the horses Hwin and Bree in chapter 6 of C. S. Lewis's novel The Horse and His Boy because Aravis is not with them, and he is afraid of walking into...

A Thousand Splendid Suns is set in a patriarchal society where misogyny is normal. Nonetheless, Rasheed stands out as a particularly misogynistic character. He is physically and emotionally abusive...

In The Horse and His Boy, Shasta goes to the Tombs of the Ancient Kings on the edge of the desert outside Tashbaan after he leaves Prince Corin. In chapter 4 of The Horse and His Boy, the Narnians...

Metonymy, hyponymy, and tautology all refer to various ways in which we use words to express our meanings. Let's go through the definitions of these terms and add some examples to help you better...

The psychoanalytic approach to literary analysis delves deeply into the hidden parts of characters' psyches and attempts to explain their relationships according to these deep tendencies. The...

Let's express `x ^ 2 = - m - x ` from the second equation and substitute it to the first one: `- m - x + m x = - 1 , ` or `x ( m - 1 ) = m - 1 .` There are two different cases: one for `m = 1 ` and...

"Time Passes" is the middle section of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, and it is meant to show how no one can stop the relentless passing of time. Change happens. Life goes on. Then it ends....

The key features of a story may include everything from its point of view to the plot arc to the story's setting to the author's word choices. A story's themes, on the other hand, are what the...

Mr. Brownlow and Mr. Bumble are two very different characters in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, and the author accentuates those differences through tone, diction, and imagery. Let's look at an...

Ogden Nash allegedly referred to himself as being both ‘viable and friable.’ However, the phrase does not appear in any of his most frequently cited poems or quotations. It is not unreasonable to...

A lot takes place in these chapters. To summarize them, it is best to focus on just the most significant developments. Let's look at what these are to help you make a good summary of these...

The problem in the octave of John Donne's sonnet "Death, be not proud" is that Death appears to many as a tyrannical and frightening figure, who takes away all the best people from the world. The...

In Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, Jody has to grow up quickly to help his family survive difficult times. He must learn to take responsibility from a young age, but he still enjoys many...

Napoleon and Snowball are similar in that they both hold leadership roles over the other animals and share a mutual hostility toward one another. While Snowball is charismatic, Napoleon is...

Denote AB = x, AD = y. Then by the Pythagorean Theorem, ` AC^2 = x^2 + 4 = y^2 + 1 , ` and by the Cosine Theorem, ` BD^2 = x^2 + y^2 -xy = 4 + 1 - 2 .` Express `y^2 = x^2 + 3 ` from the first...

In The Pigman by Paul Zindel, Lorraine and John feel that they "murdered" Mr. Pignati because they abandoned him and caused him great emotional distress, which ultimately led to his death. Lorraine...

John’s reflection that he might prefer to be dead comes in the final chapter of Paul Zindel’s The Pigman. Let’s look at this in more detail. Mr. Pignati is dead, and as John waits for the...

"The Sheriff's Children" by Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "We Wear the Mask" both explore the theme of masking in the African American community. In Chesnutt's story, the main...

An epic is a long narrative poem that tells the story of a hero and the hero's deeds. The hero is often of noble birth, and their actions are of great significance to the culture or nation in which...

In the poem "My Parents" by Stephen Spender, the narrator recalls childhood memories of being bullied. Bullying is a common theme in the childhood memories of many people because many people were...

In his poem “My Parents,” Stephen Spender shows a clear division of social class between the speaker and the other children. Let’s look at how he does this. The poem begins with a statement about...

Both "The Lesson" by Edward Lucie-Smith and "My Parents" by Stephen Spender are poems that explore themes of childhood and the impact of social class division on an individual's experiences. The...

Chapters 11–19 of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist present several important events. Let's look at some of these to help you get started on this assignment. You might mention that after Oliver's...

In the TED Talk "What Fear Can Teach Us" by Karen Thompson Walker, the speaker suggests that fear can be thought of in two ways: artistically and scientifically. Artistically refers to fear as an...

The first step to explaining how Gatsby's past contributes to the meaning of the novel will be identifying what that past really is. As Nick discovers more about Gatsby, it becomes easier to see...

Mary Shelley uses a frame story to set up her novel Frankenstein. This allows readers to move into the story from the perspective of an observer, and it helps establish a particular viewpoint and...

The sociopolitical scenario of medieval England is quite complex and varied over time, place, and circumstance. However, we can do some brainstorming for elements that you can use to construct your...

It is clear that the value is somewhat near `1 0 0 ^ 2 , ` or rather `1 0 1 . 5 ^ 2 . ` Perform the following transformations of the expression under the root: `1 0 0 * 1 0 1 * 1 0 2 * 1 0 3 + 1...

This assignment is designed to help you develop an argument by making a claim and supporting that claim with reasons and evidence. Let's look at how you should go about doing this on the topic of...

While the mission of security services does not differ depending on whether they are contractual or proprietary, you will find significant differences by examining how they are organized and...

Walter De La Mare takes an unusual approach to meter in “The Listeners.” The poem is based on what is known as common meter, in which the lines alternate between iambic tetrameter (a line...

In In the Time of the Butterflies, Minerva Mirabel is characterized as a driven, principled, and confident woman. Even during her youth, Minerva knows that she has the potential to achieve great...

Freud’s analysis of the specimen dream is based on his theory of the interpretation of dreams, which says that dreams are a manifestation of the unconscious mind and that the content and symbols in...

Educated by Tara Westover is a memoir that details the author's life in a rural Mormon community in Idaho. In this book, the author talks about her upbringing within an abusive, neglectful, and...

Denote `/_ AOB = alpha, ` then `/_ BOC = alpha ` and `/_ COD = 180^@ - alpha . ` Denote also `AO = r .` From the isosceles triangle AOB `sin ( alpha / 2 ) = ( 4 sqrt ( 3 ) ) / r , ` from the right...