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1.	What did Alice Walker mean in the essay "Beauty"?
2.	Do swans really sing when they die?
3.	What does indignation mean?
4.	What is a pundit?
5.	What is a cleft sentence?
6.	What is the difference between narration and first person?
7.	Is it grammatically correct to say "take some shots"?
8.	My teacher thinks I plagiarized an essay; what should I tell him?
9.	What is misanthropy?
10.	What does ignominy mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
11.	What does pecuniary mean? (From Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
12.	How do I analyze Kant's philosophy?
13.	Why do some authors use the word an before all words that start with an H? Is this form of writing correct?
14.	What is an apostrophe in Macbeth?
15.	My school newspaper claimed that I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Isn't Go. a complete sentence?
16.	How did people make up the lb. abbreviation for pounds?
17.	Which is correct: "if I was" or "if I were"? And why?
18.	What are the humanities?
19.	How would you use the word antecede in a sentence?
20.	Who wrote, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still"?
21.	Could you please explain the difference between affect and effect?
22.	Will mentioning my race in my college essay increase my chances of getting in?
23.	Is my summer vacation to Italy a good topic for my college essay? (I have pictures, too.)
24.	How do I go about writing a good thesis statement?
25.	What do people mean when they talk about information in the public domain?

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