Friday, August 21, 2015

Compare and contrast Jake Brigance in A Time to Kill with Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Jake and Atticus are similar in that each is a white attorney who accepts the unpopular role of representing a black defendant in a small, p...

What are the names of each chapter in the book?No need a long summary, just the 'title'

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The chapters in To Kill a Mockingbird are simply numbered.  There are no titles.  However, for quick reference, I have my own "titles...

How would you describe the effects of living in the "valley of ashes" probably had on George and Myrtle Wilson?

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The ecology of the valley of the ashes has been destroyed by man along the ethical values than men have clung to for centuries. The only thi...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

How Do Marullus and Flavius rebuke the people in sene one of Julius Caesar?

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Marullus and Flavius are rebuking the commoners in Scene I because they are out celebrating in the streets on a work day without wearing the...

Is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," written in iambic pentameter?

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The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the stran...

Is this quote in the book "Into the Wild" or only in the movie? "When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."

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The quote first appeared in the book.  Krakaeur attributes the quote to Ronald Franz, an older retired army man.  Chris met Franz (this is a...

How do Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Sonnet 73 cover the theme don't judge a book by its cover?It's a short answer question.

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Sonnet 73 is about someone who loves a person who is getting old. According to the speaker in the sonnet, the love is stronger because the l...