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Solve algebraically the simultaneous equations x^2 +y^2 =25, y – 3x = 13

This question is done by substituting either the x or y. To do this, rearrange the second equation to make y the subject. We make y the subject as it keeps the equation and calculation simple. After rearrang...
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Why is Milton's Satan so much more interesting than his Adam, Eve or God?

Good question - well done for not disowning your intuitions about Satan. In a sense, this is the core question that faces readers of Paradise Lost today. Why would Milton, writing a Protestant tract about th...
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Are we meant to sympathise with the speaker of Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'?

The critic Robert Langbaum said that essence of dramatic monologues - poems like 'My Last Duchess,' where an invented character speaks the words, rather than an author or author-figure - was the 'tension bet...
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What are Anselm's arguments for the existence of God?

Anselm developed an ontological argument, proving the existence of God through logic alone rather than evidence. He had two main arguments. The first rests on the predicate that God is 'a being than which no...
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What is the hortative subjunctive?

It is almost the same use of the subjunctive as the jussive but is used in the first person rather than the third. It is an independent use of the subjunctive (i.e. when the subjunctive is not used in a subo...
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