Which of these is the purpose of the first paragraph?
a To foreshadow the action that follows
b To set the mood for the scene that follows
c To provide a physical contrast to the nature of the characters
d To introduce a metaphor that applies to the rest of the passage

The purpose of the text refers to the effect that the text wants to have on the reader and the story.

When reading the text, the reader must understand what effect the author wants to achieve with the text. This effect is the purpose of the text which can have an impact on the reader and the plot.

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The Golden Rule, What connections do all of the quotes have?

10. A phrase is different from a clause because phrases do not contain and​

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which is a frequent source of controversy in public debates, says that "a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The controversy stems from the fact that some Americans feel that the Second Amendment guarantees all citizens the absolute right to own firearms, while others believe that some restrictions on gun ownership are consistent with the Second Amendment.

Which of the following sentences best describes the author’s message in this passage?

The Second Amendment addresses the topic of gun control, which is a current issue.
Americans have found that the Second Amendment can be interpreted in different ways.
The US Constitution contains many examples of amendments that people debate today.
There is no need to debate the issue of gun control when the Second Amendment is so clear.

“Life is a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” Support the given comment with logical arguments.

complete the following table to show the total revenue and the total profit of the firm at each level of output the firm might produce. Asuume the market price is 200

Where is Georgia State College located?
a.
Milledgeville
c.
Andalusia
b.
Savannah
d.
Out in the countryside


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

Select the correct answer.
Beth has been diagnosed with a psychological disorder based on the 4 Ds. What are they
OA.
distress, deviance, danger, dysfunctional
OB. dejection, danger, disappointment, distress
O C. deviance, discomfort, dread, dysfunctional
OD. depression, deviance, danger, disappointment

if given a chance to be the overall in charge of the national security council of the country, what will be your (3) top priority security programs for your countrymen? explain.​

What do you use quotation marks around

Write a letter to your parents

What is the central idea of the passage?
Ned help

In Act I of The Crucible, why does Reverend Parris seek help for Betty from Reverend Hale?

Speeches or literature designed to persuade an audience to support the United States' operations in Iraq are often called:
Ooo
Rules of Engagement.
savvy.
propaganda
casualties.

How does the ballerina’s attitude toward her kickboxing class change? Include examples from the last six stanzas of the poem to support your answer.
from the poem "New Moves"
30 points to whoever answers

1. Which of the following forms of writing might be assigned in a life application course?
A. Literary analysis
B. Letter writing
C. Persuasive essay

2. Which of the following best describes a persuasive essay?
A. An essay that analyzes and evaluates similar, opposing, or complex issues and information and attempts to bring the reader to a particular point of view
B. An essay that includes interesting characters, scenes and settings, and follows a plot
C. An essay that analyzes, interprets, and evaluates a work of literature. Your essay must analyze a particular text, which is named in your essay assignment.

Arabs who live in North Africa can trace their ancestry to the Middle East. Please select the best answer from the choices provided T F

one of my best friends are going to travel to Europe this summer which option best revises this sentence to use correct subject-verb
A change one of my best friends to my best friend Tim
Bchange are going to is going to
C change this summer to next summer
Dchange travel to Europe to travels to Europe

4. What is Old Man Warner's attitude about those who would like to change
things?

Which statement would NOT be a problem with the government implementing fiscal policy?
A)
bureaucratic lag would cause a delay in economic benefit
B)
politically motivated unnecessary spending on public works
international trade weakens the effect of the governmental policy
D)
an increase in the interest rate can negatively affect investment spending
and the housing market

From "The Tyranny of Things" by Elizabeth Morris

Two fifteen-year-old girls stood eyeing one another on first acquaintance. Finally one little girl said, "Which do you like best, people or things?" The other little girl said, "Things." They were friends at once.

I suppose we all go through a phase when we like things best; and not only like them, but want to possess them under our hand. The passion for accumulation is upon us. We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things.

Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase, they never enjoy a book without wanting to own it, nor a picture without wanting to hang it on their walls. They keep photographs of all their friends and kodak albums of all the places they visit, they save all their theater programmes and dinner cards, they bring home all their alpenstocks. Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.

But to some of us a day comes when we begin to grow weary of things. We realize that we do not possess them; they possess us. Our books are a burden to us, our pictures have destroyed every restful wall-space, our china is a care, our photographs drive us mad, our programmes and alpenstocks fill us with loathing. We feel stifled with the sense of things, and our problem becomes, not how much we can accumulate, but how much we can do without. We send our books to the village library, and our pictures to the college settlement. Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret, where they lie huddled in dim and dusty heaps, removed from our sight, to be sure, yet still faintly importunate.

Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance, or we shall be once more overwhelmed.

For it is an age of things. As I walk through the shops at Christmas time and survey their contents, I find it a most depressing spectacle. All of us have too many things already, and here are more! And everybody is going to send some of them to everybody else! I sympathize with one of my friends, who, at the end of the Christmas festivities, said, "If I see another bit of tissue paper and red ribbon, I shall scream."

It extends to all our doings. For every event there is a "souvenir." We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away. Even our children cannot have a birthday party, and play games, and eat good things, and be happy. The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home. Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles, which can never cut the waves clean and sure and swift until she has been scraped bare again. And there seems little hope for us this side our last port.

And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope! When a man’s possessions were burned with him, so that he might, forsooth, have them all about him in the next world! Suffocating thought! To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.

One central idea of Morris’s essay is that getting rid of things can be a relief for people. Which two of these details help illustrate that idea?

Choose one answer from each group. Type the LETTER ONLY for each answer in the correct blank.

Type A, B, C, or D for Blank 1.

Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.
Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles.
Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret.
Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance.

Type E, F, G, or H for Blank 2.
The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home.
We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away.
And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope!
To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.
Answer for Blank 1:

Answer for Blank 2:

what's a powerful bullying title for slam poetry! ur own words!​

Hatchet book.
Write 3 things Brian had to do finally get the items in the survival pack.

1.682 inches rounded to the nearest whole number is 1.6 inches true or false

Read the excerpt from "Lady Liberty." It was a very good plan given the poor state of repair on Bedloe. Still, Papa and I decided to risk the sagging wooden stairs and climb to the crown. Inside, kerosene lamps were the only light. The air was stale, and it seemed like a place where accidents could happen. Even so, a crowd of people were willing to risk their safety and climb 354 steps for a view of the harbor and city. To me, it seemed as if every stair was a step toward freedom and light.


Which is the best objective summary of this excerpt?


A. The air inside the Statue of Liberty smelled old and stuffy, which made it hard to climb to the top.

B. Climbing up to the top of the Statue of Liberty was worth any risk that may have resulted.

C. There was very little light inside the Statue of Liberty, but people, including the narrator, still climbed to the top.

D. Despite the conditions inside the Statue of Liberty, many people, including the narrator, climbed up to the top.

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Which best describes the speaker’s attitude toward the dandelion?

This is probably really easy but, I would like if someone told me the answers because I can’t decide on my choices. Please answer quickly it is due today! This is on Pigs is Pigs commonlit assignment.

Decide whether each of the following groups of words is a complete sentence (an independent clause) or an incomplete sentence (a dependent clause). If the sentence is incomplete, capitalize it and do whatever else is necessary to make it complete. If the sentence is complete, capitalize the first word and add the appropriate ending punctuation.
three ships went with Columbus
because they found no gold in that country
after they went running through
he wants to visit the moon
the boy who has lots of freckles
she turned a page in her book
a book that I read
before the race began

What do context and inferences have in common?

You cannot tell the meaning of a word by how it is used.
You can decide how to write a story based on inferences.
You can infer the context of a story based on dictionary definitions.
You can use the context of a story to infer what is going on.

Why do you think that the social injustice of gender discrimination is unfair.