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The Story of an HourHow does irony relate to the theme of "The Story of an Hour"?I'm working on a paper and trying to...Quite simply, the greatest irony of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" exists in the entire plot, not so much in particular dialogues or scenes, although some characters misinterpret her...
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Lord of the Flies(I believe you actually mean Chapter 5) After Ralph spots the smoke from a passing ship, he suddenly realizes that no smoke from their own signal fire is visible. When he runs up the mountain to...
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The GiverThe basic answer here is that Jonas does not compliment Benjamin because of Sameness. Here is how that works: One of the basic ideas of Sameness in the community is that everyone should be, as...
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ScienceThe main reason that you can say they should not have been put on an island is the fact that an island is such an isolated ecosystem. If the reindeer had been put somewhere where they had room to...
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A Midsummer Night's DreamAs befitting one of Shakespeare´s romantic comedies, this play is all about mistakes, confused identities, and problems becoming further complicated before they are resolved. The key example of...
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The CrucibleThe short answer to this is that the Puritans thought that the virgin forest was the Devil's home base. You can find this information in the introduction that Miller wrote that appears before Act I...
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ScienceRust is a common term used for the corrosion of iron and its alloys (i.e. steel), formed by the reaction of the iron with oxygen. Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass eventually...
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ScienceThe reason for introducing more females than males is quite clear -- when you have more females, you have more potential for having babies and multiplying the herd. Two males can presumably keep...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnIn this book, the Grangerford family is having a feud with a neighboring family named the Shepherdsons. Huck ends up getting in the middle of this feud, but does not end up getting hurt himself....
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Edward IITradegy generally starts with great deal of smoothness where we cannt find any incomplete things however some sorts of the smoothness seem some lacking after the denouncement of any type of events...
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Referenceshe thinks of everything good
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There Will Come Soft RainsA meteor would be a natural end to the world. I'm not familiar with a story by that name, so my conclusion is based on what a meteor strike would do. In There will Come Soft Rains, a war (probably...
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To Kill a MockingbirdIt is important to understand that Atticus puts together a bunch of details and believes Jem must have killed Bob Ewell. This is Atticus' righteous character coming through and even though he is...
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The Bean TreesIn the early pages of The Bean Trees, we see that the protagonist, Marietta, has a conflict with the culture around her. It is this conflict that compels Marietta to pack up her 1955 Volkswagen bug...
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MathLet u be the initial velocity with an angle x degree above the horizontal. Then the components of the velocity of the ball along horizontal and vertical directions are : u*cosx and u*sinx - gt...
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Social SciencesI assume that you are talking about security in the sense of police or national defense. In a pure free market system, you would have no overall police force or army. These things (this kind of...
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Fahrenheit 451Bradbury's dystopia is analogous to the last stanza of Matthew Arnold's poem: Ah, love, let us be trueTo one another! for the world, which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreams,So various,...
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Social SciencesAccording to economists, the free market system brings efficiency because customers are free to buy from whatever company they want to buy from. If they do not like the way one company does things...
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Great ExpectationsEstella is a playmate of Pip's as a child. Miss Havisham is a local wealthy woman. Both demonstrate the evil that having great wealth can create. Miss Havisham really wanted to be loved, but was...
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To Kill a MockingbirdThis question has already been asked/answered by one of our expert eNotes editors. Here is a link for you:...
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The Great GatsbyTom says that Gatsby was a bootlegger -- someone who sold illegal alcohol during Prohibition. He also accuses Gatsby of having been a racketeer and a swindler. This happens in Chapter 7. The...
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The Kite RunnerWhen Amir was young and living in Afghanistan, the country was experiencing a term of peace. His father was able to have a drink at a local place or in his home. Drinking was fairly common. Baba...
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To Kill a MockingbirdWhat happens to Tom Robinson is that he is killed while trying to escape from jail. He just runs towards the fence in full sight of the guards. It is as if he is trying to get killed. Tom does...
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OthelloIn his first soliloquy, Iago says: “It is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets / He has done my office” (I.iii.369–370). This is one of the reasons that Iago gives for justifying his...
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MathWhenever you are solving an equation, you have to do the part that is inside the parenthesis first. So in this case, you have to add 2/5 and 1/5. That, of course, gets you 3/5. You can just add...
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Fahrenheit 451In the book, Guy Montag reads part of this poem out loud to Millie and the ladies who have come over to see her. I believe that Bradbury uses this poem in particular because of its theme. The poem...
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TwilightIn the "Twilight Saga" mythos, vampires with red eyes indicate that the vampire has eaten human blood, which is why James' coven has red eyes as well as the Volturi. If a vampire has only had...
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Fools CrowNative American tribes often had language references to the elements, to things in nature and the stars and seasons, since this was an integral part of their religion. The Blackfoot Sioux...
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To Kill a MockingbirdWe do not know why Mayella Ewell really invited Tom Robinson into her house. But the speculation is (what Atticus claims in court) that she had a very lonely life and she wanted to seduce Tom....
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To Kill a MockingbirdThe men go to the jail because they want to lynch Tom Robinson -- to kill him rather than letting him go on trial. This was something that Southern whites did relatively often to black men who...
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HolesStanley is a much kinder and more sensitive boy. He has grown up in the city with parents who loved and nurtured him, even though they were a little different. He is also uncertain how he had...
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Just Lather, That's AllIn my opinion, the theme here (in the way you are describing theme) is the meaning of bravery. I think the story is about what it means to be brave as opposed to what it means to be sensible. I...
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Oscar WildeThe fan has many colors, facets, faces, functions, much like the colors in the tail of peacock: it is both beautiful and a symbol of courtship. Also, it is Lady Windamere's greatest fan (person...
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Artshere are some paintings that i know.i hope you can find the portrait of your great-great-grandfather.good luck! 1.Juliana Countess of Leicester with her eldest child Lady Julia Coke 2.Portrait of...
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In Cold BloodSympathy is probably the wrong word, as I don't know that Truman Capote actually felt sorry for Perry Smith, but he did empathize with him. That is, both personally and in his writing, he could...
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BusinessThe reason that we say businesses are buyers and not sellers in factor markets is because factor markets are markets where resources are bought and sold. They are not markets where finished...
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BusinessWhat this means is that economists are trying to describe how reality works but they have to do that by making theories that they (try to) take from reality. The thing is that you cannot describe...
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DraculaIn the book "Dracula" by Bram Stoker the intellectual hero is the vampire hunter Van Helsing. However, Van Helsing would believe that the hero was Jonathan who loved Mina so much that he risked...
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Oedipus RexThis is what Aristotle meant in Poetics regarding katharsis, the purgation of pity and fear: Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlIn the third chapter of Jacobs’s narrative “The Slaves’ New Year’s Day,” Jacobs implicitly and explicitly states her views against slavery. At the beginning of the chapter, Jacobs uses a...
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Fahrenheit 451What are the main themes or most important themes in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451?I am trying to...The most important theme of this book is the way in which the modern world makes people (according to Bradbury) less interested in thinking and reading and doing the things that make us human. He...
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Social SciencesI think that of these four angles of argument, the weakest would be constitutional if you are trying to argue against capital punishment. If you use the constitutional angle, you must prove that...
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HistoryTeotihuacan, the capital of the Aztec empire, had a few natural agricultural advantages going for it. One, it was situated next to swamplands with abundant water and fertile soil in flatlands that...
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Dr. Heidegger's ExperimentThe moral of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is ambiguous. Dr. Heidegger seems to decide that old age is preferable to youth because age brings understanding and discretion. His four guests, however,...
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The Yellow WallpaperIn the two stories you ask about, "The Story of an Hour" and "The Yellow Wallpaper," society is the source of stereotypes, mores, and gender roles. The protagonists in both of these stories live...
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ScienceI would predict that the population of moose in this area will be increasing soon. The major reason for this is, I assume, that wolves are a major predator of moose. If they wolf population is...
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HamletI think that there are a couple reasons for this. (I am assuming you are talking about the part where he says that his flesh is "too, too sullied.") I think that one possibility is that...
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LiteratureVery interesting question! Different sorts of questions can be set up from these acts, but as your concern is long question, so there would be a few, not many. Here, I have given some model...
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ScienceOne hypothesis would be that the people feed the cedar waxwings and help keep their population up. This would be because fewer birds die in the winter from lack of food or related problems. Since...
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Everyday UseI agree with the above answer concerning the three main characters in Walker's "Everyday Use," and how the characters value the house. I'll just view the issue from a slightly different angle. For...
