Ashly Hintz
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Educator and tutor with a passion for literature and writing. I love to share my knowledge and help students learn how to read and interpret literature.
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Answered a Question in Heart of Darkness
The company in this novel is the root of evil—it is the dark stain that corrupts the hearts of the men in the novel as well as ravaging the unspoiled lands of Africa. The company is greed and... -
Answered a Question in Business
Contract first SOA design is a schematic where the design team recognizes that the most important part of a service is the interface. The functions and accessibility will be determined by what... -
Answered a Question in Business
Traditional API's and Service Contracts are fairly different concepts. The main difference between the two is how robust and all-encompassing the piece of programming is. An API, or Application... -
Answered a Question in The Kite Runner
Baba and Amir have a strained relationship in their homeland. Baba is extremely successful and is condescending towards Amir's interests, wishing him to be more practical and enterprising. Things... -
Answered a Question in History
Prior to the eighteenth century, Britain's colonial presence in the New World was smaller than those of France and Spain. They were vastly outnumbered, even though they were sending more at every... -
Answered a Question in Twelve Angry Men
The story Twelve Angry Men shows a behind-the-scenes look at the deliberation between jurors as they essentially decide on the life of a young boy of Puerto Rican decent. The irony is that all of... -
Answered a Question in The Color Purple
Any great novel incorporates numerous conflicts throughout its plot—ranging from internal to societal. In The Color Purple, the most prominent conflict is an internal one: the "man versus self"... -
Answered a Question in Political Science
The similarities between the nations' governments are practically all surrounding how the government is run and how it was established. The nations are both democracies, established as federations... -
Answered a Question in The World Is Flat
Friedman uses a humorous title to explain the growing economic trend in the world right now. Currently, the Flat Earth society promotes the misguided theory that the Earth itself is physically... -
Answered a Question in The Road
The boy in the story The Road has to mature quickly. This is a common theme in post-apocalyptic stories: naive and youthful characters need to grow and become tough very quickly, much more quickly... -
Answered a Question in Business
Enron failed because they had no regard for the consequences of their actions. Enron is a classic example of management's disregard for the common man while solely being focused on profits. Enron... -
Answered a Question in Emma
The film and the novel both follow the same strict plot, Emma, the rather arrogant protagonist, fumbles the affairs of various friends and acquaintances because of her meddling, until she... -
Answered a Question in Sonny's Blues
The term in medias res is a Latin phrase meaning, essentially, "in the middle of things." Beginning a story in medias res means the author is throwing the reader directly into the action of the... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis
All of the family members in Kafka's The Metamorphosis receive quite a shock upon seeing Gregor's transformation. Their reactions to him and how they choose to deal with the situation all betray... -
Answered a Question in The Bluest Eye
Rejection is a part of life, and Morrison intends to show that. She uses the idea of rejection to show different characters in their isolation and alienation—and in particular how they respond to... -
Answered a Question in Literature
These two characters are both manipulative and harmful men in the separate tales, and their similarities show some of the traditional aspects of abusers and kidnappers. Arnold Friend and the Misfit... -
Answered a Question in The Ramayana
The battle between good and evil is epitomized in the tale of Rama and Ravana. Ravana is the immortal demon king who kidnaps and imprisons Sita, the lover of Rama. He is extremely powerful and has... -
Answered a Question in Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
This novel is a quintessential "road to success" sort of story, typical of the early 1900s life in America, where people from humble beginnings were all dreaming of finding great success and... -
Answered a Question in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain is known as a champion of chivalry and is, in fact, the most chivalrous of all the knights of Arthurian legend. He upholds the rules of civility and dignity as well as the virtues of... -
Answered a Question in Frederick Douglass
The theme in Douglass's The Heroic Slave is an obvious one—heroism and bravery. The story focuses on the pursuits and triumphs of a slave who undertakes all sorts of acts of bravery to liberate... -
Answered a Question in The Hitchhiking Game
The morality of the tale is an issue in and of itself, but my conscience agrees somewhat with Nietzsche on the inherent cruelty of humanity. While some may find it difficult to call humans evil at... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
1) New Jersey v. T.L.O. was a landmark case that established protections for schoolchildren under the Fourth Amendment. T.L.O., and unnamed girl at a New Jersey high school, was accused of smoking... -
Answered a Question in M. Butterfly
According to the definition of a tragic hero, one must have a fatal flaw that brings about their destruction, and they must be able to elicit pity and sympathy from the audience. If your character... -
Answered a Question in Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant believed that good will or good intentions were the only truly good things. This touches on two ideas that he addresses here—the first is that good intentions cannot be manufactured... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Danforth believes that the Court is the supreme authority, and anyone challenging it must be wrong. Because of his religious philosophy, he believed that he was essentially ordained to act as God's... -
Answered a Question in William Wordsworth
"The Ruined Cottage" is a poem that takes a deep look at despair and the destruction as a result of progress. Wordsworth writes a bleak, pitying poem that is set next to a crumbling, desolate... -
Answered a Question in The Essays
Montaigne explained in this work that total self-knowledge or mastery was nigh impossible. He reckoned that humans, being inside our own heads, can only see a portion of our experience and... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
The short answer is yes. Obviously, there is a major problem with sex discrimination and differences in the world today, and there are some clear indications of this. First, men are more frequently... -
Answered a Question in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
What is most compelling about Paul Farmer is how little the differences between people seem to bother him. He feels completely at ease with people in the wealthiest American cities as well as those... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
There are several differences one can find between state and federal courts, which can lead to some advantages for either one. Assuming the jurisdictions overlap and you are able to select between... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is both set within a specific time and transcendent in its message. Much of the background and setting of the novel is very specific to its time and place. For... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
There are several major cases that established this precedent. First, we have Board of Education v. Earls (2002). In this case, it was established that drug testing was unconstitutional for people... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
eNotes educators are not allowed to complete your assignment for you, but here is a list of reasons that may help you generate your own arguments: As a Catholic school, they might enforce a strict... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
1. As a state actor, the Catholic School is not allowed to perform unauthorized testing of any sort. 2. It was not a requirement of the school's initial contract to pass these drug tests in order... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
Yes, I believe it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment in that situation. This is, obviously, a very tricky situation to analyze due to the complexity of the case, but there are a few facts that... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
Yes, there is a difference in whether or not the 4th Amendment applies to a private school depending on if they are a state actor. The 4th Amendment is the right to secure one's personal property... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
A state actor is a group, individual, or organization that acts on behalf of the state/government. This means that it represents the interests of the government in its actions and is often... -
Answered a Question in Reference
The first three questions are all just restatements of the same idea. The main question at hand is the following: does everyone deserve healthcare? The answer to that, in my opinion, should be an... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Instead of seeming like a mistake in the play, I feel like the vagueness and openness to interpretation makes the play work in its own special way. Tiresias makes it clear to the audience that... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
A "writ of certiorari" is a specific incident in court cases in which a higher court (in these cases the Supreme Court) will order a copy of the entire record of the case from previous, lower... -
Answered a Question in Federalism and State Powers
This is essentially the entire purpose behind the difference between enumerated powers and reserved powers. Essentially, there are many things in which the federal government should be directly... -
Answered a Question in Reference
Pavlov and Skinner were two psychologists who pioneered the ideas of conditioning, contributing greatly to behavior theory and helping to develop new ideas and techniques for training and changing... -
Answered a Question in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Manifest destiny is a concept meaning that the United States has a God-ordained right and purpose for taking over the breadth of the North American continent. Champions of this idea started... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
The territorial trap is geographical fallacy that misinterprets the idea of nations and their development. The main issue with it is that it takes a far too simplistic viewpoint of how nations... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
The main issue faced by corrections administrators when the "hands-off" policy was removed was the challenge of restoring their facilities to functioning and livable states. A major issue... -
Answered a Question in History
The beginning of World War I for America was the beginning of modern-day propaganda. While there has always been some form of subterfuge and propaganda in drumming up support for these sorts of... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
Collectivism and individualism are two sociological concepts that examine how societies are organized. In collectivism, the group is held to be more important than the individual (things are done... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
Natural law is the law that defines what people deserve as human beings and what their fundamental rights should be. To follow natural law is to ensure that humans have their fundamental needs met... -
Answered a Question in Populism, the Grange Movement, and Monetary Policy
There were many steps taken in the late 1800s to help improve the lives of farmers and workers, who were then suffering because of low income and lack of familiarity with technology. The farmers of... -
Answered a Question in History
Many colonial powers behaved in very similar ways when dealing with their colonial interests. Both France and Great Britain used a similar concept for establishing and governing their colonies...
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