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Please could you explain this quote for me from "A Streetcar Named Desire"? "They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!"

Ok so first, let's set the scene for this quote. Blanche speaks these words to Eunice and the Negro woman upon arriving at the Kowalski apartment at the beginning of Scene One. She has just arrived in New...

Answered by Alexandra H. • English Literature tutor

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Find and classify all the stationary points of the function f(x) = x^3 - 3x^2 + 8

Stationary points occur when the gradient of the function is zero. They can be visualised on a graph as hills (maximum points), as troughs (minimum points), or as points of inflection. (I would draw all t...

Answered by Ryan B. • Maths tutor

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I am finding it difficult to fill in this sentences in one of the AQA A-level past papers. Could you help? 1)他最喜欢篮球，我给他??? 了一双球鞋。Possible Answers: A 头 B 卖 C 买

No problem! Let's look at this sentence together. 1) 他最喜欢篮球，我给他??? 了一双球鞋。 So this sentence literally means "(Since) he really likes basketball, I ??? him a pair of trainers." No...

Answered by Alexandra H. • Mandarin tutor

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I still don’t really understand how the Subjunctive tense works in Spanish…. Could you explain it to me?

No worries! The subjunctive is tricky at the best of times. But let me take you through it step by step. Features of Sentences that Use the Subjunctive There are three ma...

Answered by Alexandra H. • Spanish tutor

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Che cosa hai fatto durante l'estate?

Quest'estate, dopo aver dato gli esami, sono andato in vancanze con i miei migliori amici. Abbiamo preso l'aereo per andare in Pologna, a Cracovia: là, in un gruppo di sette avevamo prenotato un gran appa...

Answered by Jack H. • Italian tutor

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