Compound-complex sentences are typically used to express a) a less important idea b) the relationship between equally important ideas c) emphasis and clarity d) complicated relationships

Answer:

d) complicated relationships

Explanation:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a strong thesis for a literary analysis essay?

I am worried that _______ going to _______ or ruin _______ beautiful hat during the boat ride. Fill in the blanks with the correct words. A. Your, loose, your B. You're, lose, your C. You're, loose, your D. Your, loose, you're

He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little poodle?English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down. He is a very big poodle, of a color called bleu, and he is blue when he is clean. Charley is a born diplomat. He prefers negotiation to fighting, and properly so, since he is very bad at fighting. Only once in his ten years has he been in trouble – when he met a dog who refused to negotiate. Charley lost a piece of his right ear that time. But he is a good watch dog – has a roar like a lion, designed to conceal from night-wandering strangers the fact that he couldn't bite his way out of a cornet de papier. He is a good friend and traveling companion, and would rather travel about than anything he can imagine. —Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck Use your own words to describe Charley and explain why you think Steinbeck gives such a detailed description of his dog.

Some interpretations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein suggest that the story is an allegory that serves as a warning that it is dangerous for man to try and assume the power of creating life. Which excerpt from the text most effectively develops this allegory? "After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter." "Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm." "I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body." “In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.”

springs is like a perhaps hand ( which comes carefully out of nowhere ) arranging a window , into which people look ( while people stare


Which of these poetic devices does this poem most present ?


A. Ended-stopped lines 
B. Metaphor 
C. Iambic pentameter 
D. Enjambment

Which word BEST describes the theme of “The Gift of the Magi?”

revenge
freedom
sacrifice
jealousy

Which of the following would be an appropriate topic for a literary analysis essay?

In the excerpt below, which is the topic sentence?

Which identifies the point of view that is used when a story is narrated by one of its characters?

Fourth person point of view


First person point of view


Third person point of view


Second person point of view

White sheets of water, knocked high in the moonlight by his churning feet, gleaned like thousands of tiny white stars

What role did the first families of Virginia play in Southern politics?

Which of the following are NOT usually capitalized?

What is the phrase "a little thin on top" a euphemism for in this sentence?

My aging uncle first got wrinkles all over his face, then he needed glasses to read, and now he’s getting a little thin on top.

A)forgetful
B)gray
C) bald
D) lightheaded

trent is creating a video PSA about the benefits of the solar panels.Which part of the PSA should Trent place at the end?

Which of these identifies the significance of the date A.D. 597?
A. marks the beginning of King Arthur's reign
B.marks the date the Romans invaded England
C.marks the beginnings of English history
D. marks the date Alfred the Great became King of Wessex

How does gossip affect the reader’s perception of Daisy Miller? Your answer should be at least 150 words.

What symbols does Tolstoy use in chapters 9–12 of The Death of Ivan Ilyich to express Ivan Ilyich’s condition? Fill in the table with each symbol, an excerpt from the text in which the symbol appears, and its significance.

someone wishing to work in museum services needs to have a solid background in which of the following subjects?
A.HISTORY
B.LATIN
C.MATHEMATICS
D.PHYSICS

Please help!!! 30 Points!!!

Who is the American Jezebel in Eve LaPlante's American Jezebel?



A) Queen Jezebel


B) Eve LaPlante


C) Anne Hutchinson


D) America

Yet Another Graduation Requirement?
Daniel Thrash

Current Requirements for Graduation:
Today’s high school students are required to do and achieve more than ever before in order to receive their high school diploma. Originally students simply had to earn an established number of credits over four years in order to graduate. Then different state legislatures began to require students to pass either “End-of-Course” exams or state exams in addition to earning a certain number of credits. At first the required “end-of-course” or state exams needed to graduate were just math and reading, and the tests were written at an eighth-grade level. But now, in this era of high-stakes testing, students are sometimes required to take and pass up to five different subject exams, often written at an eleventh grade level. Given how many hoops students have to jump through just to walk across the stage in a cap-and-gown, it seems ludicrous to suggest yet another graduation requirement, but that is precisely what I am advocating. In addition to all the academic requirements placed upon a student, I propose that students also be required to complete a set number of volunteer or service hours during the course of their high school career.

Reasons Why Requiring Service Hours for High School Graduates is a Good Idea:
There are many good reasons for why requiring service-hours from every American high school student is a good idea for the future. First of all, by requiring service hours, schools can break the bubble of unreality that often surrounds students in high school. High school is so often criticized as not being directly related to the “real world”; service hours would bring students into direct contact with reality! High school students today are also accused of extreme apathy, not caring or being invested in any activities whatsoever. Requiring students to step out of their indifferent disinterest would cause students to begin to feel passionate about their world and their influence in it. Requiring service hours would also be a good move for high school’s reputation among the community. Instead of being a place where students go and hide all day, high schools would be active, vibrant contributors to the good of the community as a whole. Teachers could integrate service projects into their curriculum making the question so often heard in classrooms (“Why do we have to learn this?”) irrelevant. Right now, many high schools are filled with clubs that require service hours, so making service hours a school-wide requirement would take all these separate efforts and make them into one powerful, unified effort to improve the community. Think of how much more good work could be done!

Reasons Why Opposing a High School Service Hour Requirement is a Bad Idea:
Now I know many people out there are opposed to any new graduation requirements, so let me dismiss any objections to this so-called “unnecessary burden.” Some selfish people don’t want this additional requirement simply because they don’t want people to help or serve other people! Don’t they see that students who are required to serve others as a volunteer will become more kind and considerate people in their real life? People who oppose this requirement don’t understand that if we don’t start making service-hours a requirement that in the future, charities will run out of volunteers and stop serving those in need—possibly resulting in a rise in our nation’s crime rate! It is vital that we keep this from happening by making students learn to serve others now while they are still young and impressionable. I would also ask people who oppose a service-hour requirement for graduation to realize that doing service hours also increases a student’s GPA over time!

The Logical Decision:
In short, there are no real downfalls to requiring service hours as a graduation requirement. All it will require is a willingness from school administrators to keep track of all the hours students serve and to make connections between the high school and various service organizations outside the school that will be beneficial to both students and the community at large. We all know that changing the way schools currently work is a big challenge, but it’s not one that we can’t tackle successfully if we use all our energy to make both our schools and the outside world a better place!

What type of evidence does the author use to support his argument that students should be required to complete service hours in order to graduate?
A) The author does not provide any reasons to support his claims.
B) The author primarily argues from the perspective of a parent.
C) The author presents rational and logical reasons to support his argument.
D) The author cites statistics and charts to support his points.

What is the meaning of the root -sum-, as in the word consume?
A) "take" or "use"
B) "in" or "within"
C) "warm" or "sunny"
D) "above" or "beyond"

PLEASE HELP ASAP!!! CORRECT ANSWER ONLY PLEASE!!!

excerpt from One of Ours
by Willa Cather


1 THE CIRCUS was on Saturday. The next morning Claude was standing at his dresser, shaving. His
beard was already strong, a shade darker than his hair and not so red as his skin. His eyebrows
and long lashes were a pale corn-colour—made his blue eyes seem lighter than they were, and,
he thought, gave a look of shyness and weakness to the upper part of his face. He was exactly
the sort of looking boy he didn’t want to be. He especially hated his head,—so big that he had
trouble in buying his hats, and uncompromisingly square in shape; a perfect block-head. His
name was another source of humiliation. Claude: it was a “chump” name, like Elmer and Roy;
a hayseed name trying to be fine. In country schools there was always a red-headed, wartyhanded,
runny-nosed little boy who was called Claude. His good physique he took for granted;
smooth, muscular arms and legs, and strong shoulders, a farmer boy might be supposed to have.
Unfortunately he had none of his father’s physical repose, and his strength often asserted itself
inharmoniously. The storms that went on in his mind sometimes made him rise, or sit down, or
lift something, more violently than there was any apparent reason for his doing.
2 The household slept late on Sunday morning; even Mahailey did not get up until seven. The
general signal for breakfast was the smell of doughnuts frying. This morning Ralph rolled out of
bed at the last minute and callously put on his clean underwear without taking a bath. This cost
him not one regret, though he took time to polish his new oxblood shoes tenderly with a pocket
handkerchief. He reached the table when all the others were half through breakfast, and made
his peace by genially asking his mother if she didn’t want him to drive her to church in the car.
3 “I’d like to go if I can get the work done in time,” she said, doubtfully glancing at the clock.
4 “Can’t Mahailey tend to things for you this morning?”
5 Mrs. Wheeler hesitated. “Everything but the separator, she can. But she can’t fit all the parts
together. It’s a good deal of work, you know.”
6 “Now, Mother,” said Ralph good-humouredly, as he emptied the syrup pitcher over his cakes,
“you’re prejudiced. Nobody ever thinks of skimming milk now-a-days. Every up-to-date farmer
uses a separator.”

7 Mrs. Wheeler’s pale eyes twinkled. “Mahailey and I will never be quite up-to-date, Ralph. We’re
old-fashioned, and I don’t know but you’d better let us be. I could see the advantage of a
separator if we milked half-a-dozen cows. It’s a very ingenious machine. But it’s a great deal
more work to scald it and fit it together than it was to take care of the milk in the old way.”
8 “It won’t be when you get used to it,” Ralph assured her. He was the chief mechanic of the
Wheeler farm, and when the farm implements and the automobiles did not give him enough
to do, he went to town and bought machines for the house. As soon as Mahailey got used to
a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of invention, brought
home a still newer one. The mechanical dish-washer she had never been able to use, and patent
flat-irons and oil-stoves drove her wild.
9 Claude told his mother to go upstairs and dress; he would scald the separator while Ralph got
the car ready. He was still working at it when his brother came in from the garage to wash his
hands.
10 “You really oughtn’t to load mother up with things like this, Ralph,” he exclaimed fretfully. “Did
you ever try washing this . . . thing yourself?”
11 “Of course I have. If Mrs. Dawson can manage it, I should think mother could.”
12 “Mrs. Dawson is a younger woman. Anyhow, there’s no point in trying to make machinists of
Mahailey and mother.”
13 Ralph lifted his eyebrows to excuse Claude’s bluntness. “See here,” he said persuasively, “don’t
you go encouraging her into thinking she can’t change her ways. Mother’s entitled to all the
labour-saving devices we can get her.”
14 Claude rattled the thirty-odd graduated metal funnels which he was trying to fit together in their
proper sequence. “Well, if this is labour-saving—”
15 The younger boy giggled and ran upstairs for his panama hat. He never quarrelled. Mrs. Wheeler
sometimes said it was wonderful, how much Ralph would take from Claude.
16 After Ralph and his mother had gone off in the car, Mr. Wheeler drove to see his German
neighbour, Gus Yoeder, who had just bought a blooded bull. Dan and Jerry were pitching
horseshoes down behind the barn. Claude told Mahailey he was going to the cellar to put up the
swinging shelf she had been wanting, so that the rats couldn’t get at her vegetables.
17 “Thank you, Mr. Claude. I don’t know what does make the rats so bad. The cats catches one
most every day, too.”
18 “I guess they come up from the barn. I’ve got a nice wide board down at the garage for your
shelf.”

In this story, Gatsby "comes clean" with Nick, telling the story of how he became wealthy. Does his story seem believable? Does it change your view of Gatsby? Explain your answer.

What is an example of a cause an effect situation?

3. During the wedding scene in Act II, the choir sings “Blessed Be the Tie That Binds.” Read this excerpt, which is the first three verses of the hymn:


Blessed be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above.

Before our Father’s throne We pour our ardent prayers; Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one Our comforts and our cares.

We share each other’s woes, Our mutual burdens bear; And often for each other flows The sympathizing tear.


Analyze each verse and describe why this hymn is appropriate for inclusion in a wedding ceremony.

What jazz influence is displayed in the following lines from Langston Hughes's poem "Deferred"? I want to pass the civil service. I want a television set. You know, as old as I am, I ain't never owned a decent radio yet? I'd like to take up Bach. A. syncopation B. call and response C. improvisation D. bamboula

elementary school is when teachers begin stress which of the following?
A.PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH
B.READING,WRITING, AND ARITHMETIC
C.HISTORY, CIVICS
I WILL GIVE YOU BRAINLIEST

In "Interview with Simon Ortiz," Ortiz describes the impact of his cultural identity and heritage:

"I cannot be anything except an Acoma man in nature, philosophy, and outlook and so forth. Although, obviously, in terms of technical linguistics, there are going to be influences and implications from other sources. There may be colorings that are not so easily interchangeable and are not synonymous from one language to another."

How does Ortiz's use of language in this excerpt set a formal tone?


His use of the words "interchangeable" and "synonymous" makes this part of the interview feel overly serious or severe.

His use of terms like "technical linguistics" and "influences and implications" give this part of the interview a very academic, elevated feel.

His use of the first-person pronoun makes this part of the interview feel quite critical and patronizing.

His use of longer, more complex sentences give this part of the interview a more relaxed, contemplative feel.

Should You Work During the School Year?
Who is the intended audience for this
passage?


College graduates


Senior citizens


High school students


Foreign exchange students

As night falls, how many men are left standing on the battlefield?

Question 17 options:

Arthur alone, Modred, and one of Modred’s best knights

Only Arthur and Modred

Modred, Arthur, and two of Arthur’s followers

Only Modred

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