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1.	Is there a reference to venereal disease in Romeo and Juliet?
2.	What is fantasy fiction?
3.	What is the exposition in Othello?
4.	Who is the character Susan in Romeo and Juliet?
5.	What is a found poem?
6.	What did Alice Walker mean in the essay "Beauty"?
7.	Why did Dr. Frankenstein create his monster?
8.	What is the name of the surgeon and the English ship he's on in Moby-Dick?
9.	What are the differences between an epic hero and a Romantic hero?
10.	In Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, does Gail Wynand commit suicide or only close The Banner at the end of the novel? I'm in a literary dispute over this!
11.	What did W.E.B. Du Bois mean when he wrote of second-sight?
12.	What is nihilism, and what should I read to get a better understanding of it?
13.	What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic?
14.	What are intelligent design and creationism and how are they related?
15.	What is misanthropy?
16.	I would like to understand the poem "Blight" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Please help.
17.	Can you explain the significance of the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
18.	In "Little Lost Robot," by Isaac Asimov, why have some robots been impressioned with only part of the First Law of Robotics?
19.	Can you explain Cartesian Dualism and how Descartes' philosophical endeavors led him to dualism?
20.	When reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, what does entailment mean?
21.	What does ignominy mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
22.	What does pecuniary mean? (From Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
23.	How do I analyze Kant's philosophy?
24.	What is an apostrophe in Macbeth?
25.	Is music a language?

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