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• Answered a Question in William Shakespeare

  This quotation is a slightly garbled form of what Cassius says to Brutus in Julius Caesar, Act I Scene 2:

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• Answered a Question in History

  I would have gone north and joined the Union Army. This is because at the very beginning of the war, the advantages of the North were...

• Answered a Question in Science

  "Moonshine" denotes a concept used in advanced mathematics.

  The term "moonshine" or "monstrous moonshine" is found in quantum...

• Answered a Question in Oranges

  "Oranges" is an interesting poem because it details not one but two rites of passage, the second of which is less perceptible but far...

• Answered a Question in Social Sciences

  This is a very broad question, but some general influences are easy to perceive.

  Great Britain is an island nation with an...

• Answered a Question in The Road Not Taken

  The parting of the ways that the poet is faced with symbolizes a choice, but what the poet fails to realize at the time is that once a...

• Answered a Question in Hamlet

  This is also a notorious example of how Shakespeare played to all levels of his audience -- in this case, the pit, always appreciative...

• Answered a Question in Social Sciences

  Natural Theology is the branch of theology concerned with deriving the nature and attributes of God from the facts of the natural...

• Answered a Question in Julius Caesar

  In Act II, Scene 1 of Julius Caesar, after Brutus has resolved to join the conspiracy against Caesar and met with the chief...

• Answered a Question in 1984

  At the end of George Orwell's novel 1984, when Winston Smith is sitting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, he recalls meeting Julia...