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To find an explanation (I'm not saying there is an overt reference) my suggestion would be to go to that part of the story where Marlow first hears or comes into the same vicinity as Kurtz. That is...

Where: Maycomb, Alabama (a small town that is home to working class people, as well as those whom the depression has hit even harder.) The streets are wide, hard packed earth. It is described as...

Think of the poem as more advisorial than judgemental toward a particular group - in this case, virgins/women. The poet is encouraging people to "seize the day" and not fritter one's time or life...

I often second guess myself and check guides only to find out I was wrong (although, I'd argue that some of the guides' answers are highly debatable.) My rule of thumb is to identify the climax...

As a person living in a semi-rural county (foothills of Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California), but having been raised in the SF Bay Area, I find it much easier to be self-reliant in a...