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Why does Oedipus suffer so much in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus?

That Oedipus is subjected to so much suffering during the course of the play has been a subject of much interest to it’s many commentators: the protagonist undergoes blindness, hears a graphic depiction of t...
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Outline three ways in which school may mirror work in capitalist society.

Schools and work both have hierarchical structures. In school, the headteacher has the most control/power, whereas the students have the least control/power. This is mirrored at work in capitalist society as...
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How is blood glucose controlled in homeostasis?

Blood glucose increases and gets too high, this is detected by beta cells in the Islet of Langerhans. Increase in insulin secretion, this speeds up the rate of glucose uptake by tissue cells. Glucose gets tu...
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How can we explain the standing waves on a string?

When a wave reaches the end of a string, it is reflected and inverted, so in a fixed string in which we've caused vibrations, such as a guitar string, we have two sinusoidal waves travelling in opposite dire...
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Why do we say that objects moving in a circle have acceleration even if their speed remains constant?

Because their speed might remain constant, but their velocity doesn't. Remember, velocity is a vector, so it has magnitude (which is the speed of the object), but also direction. For an object moving in a ci...
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