account of Mark Twain’s experiences as a riverboat captain.


I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would not be likely to sail for the mouth of the Amazon under ten or twelve years; and the other was that the nine or ten dollars still left in my pocket would not suffice for so imposing an exploration as I had planned, even if I could afford to wait for a ship. Therefore it followed that I must contrive a new career. The "Paul Jones” was now bound for St. Louis. I planned a siege against my pilot, and at the end of three hard days he surrendered. He agreed to teach me the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis for five hundred dollars, payable out of the first wages I should receive after graduating. I entered upon the small enterprise of "learning” twelve or thirteen hundred miles of the great Mississippi River with the easy confidence of my time of life. If I had really known what I was about to require of my faculties, I should not have had the courage to begin. I supposed that all a pilot had to do was to keep his boat in the river, and I did not consider that that could be much of a trick, since it was so wide.


Which statement best summarizes the passage?
Twain feels confident about learning the Mississippi River.
Twain finds that piloting a riverboat is not as easy as it looks.
Twain convinces his pilot to teach him how to navigate a riverboat.
Twain is concerned about not having enough money to survive.

Answer:i think its b

Explanation: just hopeful

Answer:

B

Explanation:

To write a clear conclusion for a literary analysis, a writer must:

A) assess what the big ideas and the messages in the text mean.

B) sum up the essay by clarifying the ideas developed in the analysis.

C) map out a plan to outline ideas for the essay and organize the analysis.

D) cite evidence from the text to support a conclusion reached by the writer.

Use culmination in a sentence

Summary
Write a summary of "Isn't Everyone a Little Bit Weird?" A summary is a
concise, complete, and accurate overview of a text. It should not include a
statement of your opinion or an analysis.

What two colleges did Edgar Allan Poe attend?
West Point and Harvard
The University of Virginia and Boston College
MIT and UCLA
The University of Virginia and West Point

Which set of word clues best helps the reader to determine what the character is like?
A.
young George Willard, office, concealed himself
B.
thoughts kept coming, he did not want to think, feverish eyes
C.
pushing his way through, watched, waiting for nothing
D.
faces drifting past, stairway, he muttered

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The author writes "like affluent snowbirds alternating between Manhattan and Miami" Which technique best describes this?

Simile

Metaphor

Tone

Imagery

Read the section "The Creeping Cost Of Costumes And Candy." Select the detail from the section that explains WHY people plan to buy a lot of things for Halloween this year. Group of answer choices He says the economy is doing well. This means that people are more willing to spend money. Shoppers will spend more than $3 billion on costumes. They will spend almost that much on decorations. Just under half of those celebrating will wear costumes. Around half plan to carve pumpkins. About 3 out of 10 people will take their children trick-or-treating. About 2 out of 10 people will go to a haunted house.

Select the correct answer. Which of the following details is present in the texts and in the visual depiction of the myth?

Passage 1
from Prometheus Unbound
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Almighty, had I deigned to share the shame
Of thine ill tyranny, and hung not here
Nailed to this wall of eagle-baffling mountain,
Black, wintry, dead, unmeasured; without herb,
Insect, or beast, or shape or sound of life.
Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt?
I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun,
Has it not seen? The Sea, in storm or calm,
Heaven's ever-changing Shadow, spread below,
Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?
Ah me! alas, pain, pain ever, for ever!

The crawling glaciers pierce me with the spears
Of their moon-freezing crystals, the bright chains
Eat with their burning cold into my bones.
Heaven's wingèd hound, polluting from thy lips
His beak in poison not his own, tears up
My heart; and shapeless sights come wandering by,
The ghastly people of the realm of dream,
Mocking me: and the Earthquake-fiends are charged
To wrench the rivets from my quivering wounds
When the rocks split and close again behind:
While from their loud abysses howling throng
The genii of the storm, urging the rage
Of whirlwind, and afflict me with keen hail.
And yet to me welcome is day and night,
Whether one breaks the hoar frost of the morn,
Or starry, dim, and slow, the other climbs
The leaden-coloured east; for then they lead
The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom
—As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim—
Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood
From these pale feet, which then might trample thee
If they disdained not such a prostrate slave.
Passage 2
adapted from Prometheus
by Josephine Preston Peabody
Last of all, Prometheus went up secretly to heaven after the treasure of the immortals, lighted a reed at the flame of the sun, and brought down the holy fire which is dearest to the gods. For with the aid of fire all things are possible, all arts are perfected.

This was his greatest gift to man, but it was a theft from the immortal gods, and Zeus would endure no more. He could not take back the secret of fire; but he had Prometheus chained to a lofty crag overlooking the sea in the Caucasus, where every day a vulture came to prey upon his body, and at night the wound would heal, so that it was ever to suffer again. It was a bitter penalty for so noble-hearted a rebel, and as time went by, and Zeus remembered his bygone services, he would have made peace once more. He only waited till Prometheus should bow his stubborn spirit, but this the son of Titans would not do. Haughty as rock beneath his daily torment, believing that he suffered for the good of mankind, he endured for years.

One secret hardened his spirit, and he was sure that the empire of Zeus must fall some day, since he knew of a danger that threatened it. For there was a certain beautiful sea-nymph, Thetis, whom Zeus desired for his wife. (This was before his marriage to Queen Juno.) Prometheus alone knew that Thetis was destined to have a son who should be far greater than his father. If she married some mortal, then, the prophecy was not so wonderful; but if she were to marry the King of gods and men, and her son should be greater than he, there could be no safety for the kingdom. This knowledge Prometheus kept securely hidden; but he ever defied Zeus, and vexed him with dark sayings about a danger that threatened his sovereignty. No torment could wring the secret from him, and year after year, lashed by the storms and scorched by the heat of the sun, he hung in chains and the vulture tore his vitals, while the young Oceanides wept at his feet, and men sorrowed over the doom of their protector.

At last that earlier enmity between the gods and the Titans came to an end. The banished rebels were set free from Tartarus, and they themselves came and besought their brother, Prometheus, to hear the terms of Zeus, for the King of gods and men had promised to pardon his enemy, if he would only reveal this one troublous secret.

In all heaven and earth there was but one thing that marred the new harmony, this long struggle between Zeus and Prometheus; and the Titan relented. He spoke the prophecy, warned Zeus not to marry Thetis, and the two were reconciled. The hero Hercules (himself an earthly son of Zeus) slew the vulture and set Prometheus free.


A. Prometheus moans in distress as he slowly freezes in the bitter, cold night.
B. Prometheus steals the holy fire from the gods and teaches man how to use it.
C. Prometheus and Zeus argue over man's right to use fire as a source of knowledge.
D. Prometheus is chained to a rock on the cliff and a bird attacks him.

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Mum, I don't want to go to school today,
'Cause I fear our world is in decay.
I feel my teachers are part of the plot.
I'm the only one who sees through the rot.
Scientists are cloning pigs and sheep.
Saying, it's change -- a quantum leap
Biologists are making stem cells grow
Saying, it's change - the way to go
Geologists are finding cracks in our earth.
Saying, it's change --predicting its birth
Archaeologists are digging up fossils and bones,
Saying, it's change -- time for clones
Yes, scientists are causing me great concern.
Giving us kids too much to learn!
Emma Goric
Free distribution by TS. Government 2020-21​

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Once a family began farming on the plains, difficulties began right away. First, water was scarce. Farmers lived comfortably when there was plenty of rainfall, but when the dry years came, many farmers lost everything. Second, since there was little timber, settlers made their houses of prairie sod. They often had to use dried dung for fuel.

Question Which, begin emphasis, best, end emphasis, describes life on the prairie? Answer options with 4 options

1. There were no problems with house or forest fires.

2. Wells were required to furnish a source of irrigation.

3. Farming was difficult and challenging on the plains.

4. Plowing was difficult because of the lack of rainfall.

1. Frankenstein was written in 1818. Why do you think the story is still well-known
today?

30points

(1) A new movement is spreading. (2) It is made up of people who want to change how we live and eat. (3) They want people to slow way on down. (4) They want to bring pleasure back into the way we eat.

How should the underlined words be written so that sentence 3 has the right tone?

A.
to slow down a little

B.
to just chill

C.
to give it a break

D.
to totally slow down

Read the following introduction to a website titled Tarantu-love! What is the most logical conclusion you can make about the credibility of this source?

Welcome to Tarantu-love! Your source of spider-info since 2013! This week's Tarantula Tidbit: Although many people believe tarantulas to be dangerous, research in Wildlife Weekly magazine proved that their venom was weaker than that of the typical bee! Want to learn more? Select a link from the menu to take a virtual tour of the Jackson Zoo's Tarantula Terrarium, to view a list of recommended books from biologists, or to submit a question to an expert from the Albertville Arachnid Association. (5 points)

Group of answer choices

The site has an agenda and wants to sell tickets to the zoo.

This should be a good source of objective information since it provides unbiased information.

The title of the site is Tarantu-love. This silly title proves that it is not a serious website.

The year in which the website was started suggests that the information is likely outdated.

Read the following excerpt from The Call of the Wild, and answer the question that follows.
He was surprised at the eagerness which animated the whole team and which was communicated to him; but still more surprising was the change wrought in Dave and Sol-Leks. They were new dogs, utterly transformed by the harness… The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.
Which theme from The Call of the Wild is reflected in the excerpt above? What does the excerpt suggest about that theme? Your response should be no less than 150 words.

**NO LESS THAN 150 WORDS**
*NO LESS THAN 150 WORDS*

Which of the following was a practice by the Aztecs?
A.
building mound-shaped structures
B.
making accurate astronomical predictions
C.
recording events on their detailed calendars
D.
sacrificing humans as a religious ritual
E.
constructing advanced architectural forms

Which conflict is revealed in this excerpt? The customer is arguing with the barber about becoming a murderer against his will. The customer is arguing with the barber about his violent activities in the barbershop. The barber must choose between using a sharp razor or a rubber strop to stop his enemy. The barber must choose between hurting an enemy or being an ethical worker.

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