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Thinking back to that presentation in the library makes me smile. What started out as three high school boys skipping class turned out to be the most significant event in our lives. If we had made it to the gym that day instead of the library, more than likely the streets would have swallowed us in the next few years. We never would have become doctors. Every­thing we needed to start on the road to success was included in one forty-five-minute presentation. And we almost missed it.

This was the first time that a path to my dreams was shown to me. Deep inside, I knew I could accomplish anything if given the chance. I just didn't know how to find that opportunity. That presentation showed me the possibility of reaching goals I had only dared to dream about. I think if a person dreams hard enough, sometimes a door will open to make that dream come true. Of course, it helps to be prepared to go through the door when the opportunity arises. We almost missed it.

We also had no idea that day that we were forming a pact that would last a lifetime. We just knew that somehow each of us individually might fail, but the strength of the three of us together just might be enough to succeed.

—We Beat the Street,
Sampson Davis et al

Based on the central ideas and details from the passage, write one to three sentences summarizing how the three friends changed and stayed the same after seeing the presentation.

Answer:

they were talking about how they made a pact that would last a lifetime which means to me they were still friends and will always be. the three of them will make a good team and they are enough to help eachother.

Explanation:

GIVING 8 POINTS OR 16 POINTS FOR BRAINLIEST!! HELP ASAP!! from through the looking glass. This section of the story ends just before someone enters. Use what you know along with details from the text to make a prediction about him or her.

Arnie went downstairs to get the newspaper for his dad. As usual, it was stuck in the front bushes. As Arnie reached for the paper, something caught his eye. A small, feathery lump sat under one of the bushes. Arnie leaned down for a closer look and gasped when he saw it was the mother sparrow. But, she was not chirping—she was hurt. Arnie and his dad drove to the wildlife center. A smiling woman greeted them as they entered the center. They handed her the shoebox, and she delivered it to a veterinarian, which is an animal doctor.

"You did the right thing by bringing her here," the woman said when she returned from delivering the box. "Many people cause animals more harm when they try to help them. They don't think to bring the animals to a trained expert as you did. You can come back tomorrow to check on her." When Arnie woke up the next day, he heard the father sparrow and the babies chirping cheerfully outside his window. Arnie and his father returned to the wildlife center and talked to the veterinarian. She thanked them for bringing the bird to the center instead of trying to fix her wing themselves.

"Can we take her back to her babies today?" Arnie asked.

"Yes, she is as good as new," the doctor answered. "You made the right choice to bring her here. I am sure her babies will be grateful."
What did the doctor mean when he said, "Yes, she is as good as new?"

A) The mother sparrow is well.
B) The mother sparrow likes her new nest.
C) The mother sparrow is new to her surroundings.
D) The mother sparrow needs more time with the doctor.

Read the text "How Ice Cream Is Made":

Ice cream is a frozen blend of sweetened cream and air with added flavoring. This is how it is made commercially.

Necessary Ingredients:

Dairy products, including milk, cream, and butter fat

Sugar

Eggs

Flavoring

Approved additives to prevent ice crystals during production process

Production Steps:

Step 1: To start, the ingredients are carefully measured and then combined together. The dairy ingredients, solids, and additives are blended well to ensure the liquid and dry components are completely mixed.

Step 2: Next, the mix is pasteurized. This means it is heated to high temperatures to remove any bacteria which could be found in the raw ingredients. Pasteurization can occur at 155°F for 30 minutes or 175°F for 25 seconds. The temperatures used to pasteurize ice cream need to be higher than those used for milk because the mixture includes high-fat dairy sources, sweeteners, and egg yolks.

Step 3: Following pasteurization, the ice cream mix is homogenized. This occurs when the fat globules in the cream are broken down into smaller parts through vigorous mixing. Once homogenized, the ice cream should be very smooth and uniform, meaning free of bubbles. Now the ice cream will be easier to whip and will not melt as fast.

Step 4: The next step is to let the ice cream mixture stand for at least four hours. During this time, the fat cools and forms crystals.

Step 5: A special barrel freezer is then used to gradually freeze the ice cream. The machine also pumps clean air into the mix. This keeps the ice cream soft and allows it to absorb the different flavorings. Without the air, the mixture would become as hard as an ice cube.

Step 6: During freezing, flavoring can be added. Ice cream flavors have moved on from plain vanilla and chocolate to include hundreds of combinations using fruit, nuts, candy, cookies, and other baked goods.

Step 7: Finally, the ice cream is packaged and put into a blast freezer where the temperature is between -22 to -40 Fahrenheit.

Select the evidence from the text that supports the inference that pasteurizing is an essential step to making ice cream.

A. Following pasteurization, the ice cream mix is homogenized.
B. Pasteurization can occur at 155°F for 30 minutes or 175°F for 25 seconds.
C. The dairy ingredients, solids, and additives are blended well to ensure the liquid and dry components are completely mixed.
D. The mix is heated to high temperatures to remove any bacteria, which could be found in the raw ingredients.

Can someone please write down a poem based of a nursing rythm and something creepy please!!!

I need help I don't know the answers.

Read “The Bundle of Sticks” by Aesop. Explain how the father is an inspirational character. Use details from the text to support your answer.

The Bundle of Sticks by Aesop A certain man had several Sons who were always quarrelling with one another, and, try as he might, he could not get them to live together in harmony. So he determined to convince them of their folly by the following means. Bidding them fetch a bundle of sticks, he invited each in turn to break it across his knee. All tried and all failed: and then he undid the bundle, and handed them the sticks one by one, when they had no difficulty at all in breaking them. "There, my boys," said he, "united you will be more than a match for your enemies: but if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you."

Union is strength.

Describe two things that we can infer from the description of Buck's reaction to snow. Use details from the text in your answer.

What do you think are the pros and cons of offering genetic testing kits to the public?

Describe the relationship between the mother and the farmer in the wise old woman.

Read this entry from a blog about service dogs.

Lexie, an eight-month-old black Labrador retriever, is sleeping quietly at my feet. I can’t help but think that her soft, velvety ears and alert brown eyes would make her the perfect “doggie model” for pet magazines and pet store ads. However, Lexie will soon have a much more important job to do. In a few months, she will become the loyal companion and service dog for a young man who has been blind since birth. She will help him board public transportation, such as buses, subways, and trains, and she will help him safely cross busy intersections. Lexie will even help the young man avoid obstacles, such as high curbs and low overhangs. Like all dogs in our organization, Lexie has undergone months of specialized training to help a visually impaired person lead an active and independent life.

Which statement about this blog is true?

Its primary purpose is to persuade; its secondary purpose is to inform.
Its primary purpose is to inform; its secondary purpose is to persuade.
Its primary purpose is to entertain; its secondary purpose is to persuade.
Its primary purpose is to inform; its secondary purpose is to entertain.

Which of the following uses a conjunction, but is not a compound sentence?

Eduardo plays the violin, but he'd rather play the flute.
Alexis is wearing a jacket, so she will stay warm all afternoon.
Erin ran, skipped, and jumped to cross the finish line.

Why might many people find monotony in household chores?

Excerpt from In George’s Shoes
Natalie Stewart

Owen kicked dirt beyond home plate, sending cloudy powder into the humid summer air. He scowled and pouted. He exhaled up at the sweat that trickled down his forehead as he hoisted the densely packed satchel from the ground. His baseball team, the Trail Blazers, had just won yet another series game; Owen, however, was feeling irritated.

He observed his teammates surrounding George, who had driven in the winning run. George was the team’s finest hitter, and the other players cheered, clapped, and high-fived him. The victory elated them.
In paragraph 1, why does Owen kick dirt?

A) He was happy for George because he made the winning run.
B) He was mad that he had been chosen as the equipment boy.
C) He was excited that his team had won another series game.
D) He was upset because he wanted to celebrated like George.

Passage- You may have noticed that 12 new stoplights were added to the streets of Darlingham in the last year. Though there have been many complaints about slower commutes to work, that is a small price to pay for the dramatic improvement in community safety that has occurred. In fact, as a result of the new stoplights, automobile accidents at those intersections have been reduced by nearly 40 percent. Furthermore, studies show that the new lights have made the intersections safer for pedestrians. And for me, personally, the stoplights hold a special significance — they were manufactured at Wilson Smelting, the company my grandfather started almost 80 years ago. In closing, I think we as a community should thank the city planners for making the safety of Darlingham's citizens a top priority.

Identify the author's purpose in the newspaper article below. Then, in your own words, explain which detail is most helpful in supporting the author's purpose and which is least helpful.

I need help on an essay. I need someone to email on my email (just ask what it is) about how there day is going

Is there anyway I could practice for a reading test were you read a passage and answer the questions.

Read the excerpt below from The Call of the Wild and answer the question that follows.

But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active. Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness. He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton's fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization.

Which theme is most clearly being explored in the passage above?

QUICK make a creepy story out of the sentences
Next, a thin, slimy arm reached out from behind the leaves. Then, a scaly, green leg.
I thought it was an animal that needed help, so I stopped to see what it was. I sat with the headlights on, waiting for it to reappear. I was driving along a dark road late at night. I don’t visit this side of town often, and I was having a hard time figuring out where I was. It was a dark and stormy night.
As I crept along the road, I got an eerie feeling. Something didn’t feel right.
As it crossed in front of my headlights, it saw me in the driver’s seat. I froze.
Soon, I saw glowing red eyes peering out at me from the forest.
As it came out from behind the trees, I saw that it was a huge beast!
It must have been about six feet tall, with sharp fangs, black claws, and a huge yellow fin down its back. Suddenly, it let out a piercing shriek. I screamed.
Then, I saw something move in the bushes as my headlights passed. My heart jumped into my throat!
I sat there, stunned, for a few minutes. Once I caught my breath, I put the car in drive and raced into town, and didn’t stop until I got to the police station.
It walked closer on its webbed feet, leaving wet tracks on the road.
It peered into the windshield. I was so scared I almost cried!
She didn’t believe me, but as I left I saw her put my statement in a big box, filled with papers, labeled “GIANT REPTILE SIGHTINGS.” “Oh, please. That sounds ridiculous. You must have just been tired,” she said as she took my statement. Then, just as soon as it appeared, it lumbered off into the forest on the other side of the road.
I ran inside, covered in sweat, and told my story to an officer.

Which statements were a factor in the decline of Sumer?

Select all correct answers.


The cultivated soil had poor drainage.


A drought caused poor crop production.


Nomads invaded Sumerian city-states.


Salinization of the soil occurred.

How were the phonograph and the gramophone different?

A The phonograph recorded on disks, and the gramophone recorded on tinfoil.
B The phonograph recorded on records, and the gramophone recorded on wax.
C The phonograph recorded on tinfoil, and the gramophone recorded on disks.
D The phonograph recorded on wax, and the gramophone recorded on record

Which detail from the text supports the idea that Anthony was observant?

A.She questioned her father about his business.

B.She noticed that Sally Ann was the most capable worker.

C.She spent a great deal of time on the mill floor.

D.She was easily entertained by the millworkers.

Arachne and the Goddess, Athena, compete in a weaving competition to see who has the most beautiful tapestries. When suddenly, enraged, the goddess turns Arachne into a spider as punishment for her cruel and foolish depictions of the gods.

A. Character vs. God/Deity
B. Character vs. Self
C. Character vs. Technology
D. Character vs. Society

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5 times and you get 100 points literally

setting of hunger games book 1 chapter 7

“‘This is miser’s pay for such hard work,’ he said.”

In the context of this passage, what does David mean by the phrase miser’s pay?

fair pay


better than usual pay

someone else’s pay

not enough pay

!!HURRY!!
How does the narrator affect the reader’s understanding of details in Gentleman of Río en Medio?


Details in the story are limited to the narrator’s first-person point of view.

Details in the story are presented by a narrator who knows everything.

Details in the story are provided by a narrator who is outside the story.

Details in the story are given from the point of view of multiple characters.

Another free verse of mine, dont know how i feel about it but my mom said it was good lol
whoever gives best critique/ constructive criticism gets BRAINLIEST

Heavenly Pickerel

Although cliché,

Over the river and through the woods I went,

I went, and then I went a little farther.

All to get back home, but ‘twas not the destination

I was most excited for, oh no most definitely not the destination

But instead the journey, the journey was the most beautiful

Site I have ever lay my eyes upon...

There was a red overpass with beautiful pickerel,

With color so vibrant a man with shaded spectacles must look away,

Their color resembled the night sky with a purple hue

And so, I decided to say nothing but what was true

These were by far the most beautiful thing to ever be seen

And thus, I felt I would need

To see it again and again till the very end...

And so, I did I saw that pickerel every day and every night till I drew my last breath

On a cold winter's day, my only wish was to see them one last time to only find out they too

Drew their last breath, and so I died old and sad that I did not get to see my friends,

One last time on this winter's day…

And now we are here as I look from above at this beautiful world, I see now there are things more

Beautiful then that pickerel

But I did find it quite nice the pickerel were reborn on thy grave as it made me feel,

As if I was truly still apart of the world…

Please help! I can't give too many points but I need this asap
Part A

How does Jerome develop a theme of the story?


By following through on his commitments, Jerome demonstrates that actions speak louder than words.

By paying an unexpected visit to Martin, Jerome demonstrates it is better to act first and think second.


Jerome rallies his teammates to support the victims of a fire, developing the theme that people can overcome adversity by working together.


Jerome hesitates to reach out to his friend, developing the theme that it is best to give people their space when they are dealing with tragedy.

Question 2
Part B

Which quotation from the text best supports the response to Part A?


"He would be there, and he would do whatever he could to help."

"He thought showing up at Martin’s house uninvited seemed too much like barging in during a sensitive time . . . "

"The post already had more than 50 responses offering thoughts and prayers to the family, . . . "

" . . . Jerome was surprised when his inquiry received a quick 'that would be great' in response."

What are some steps in deconstructing a play?
1. read it, draw conclusions, look for themes, interpret
2. make predictions, read it, interpret, make connections
3. make predictions, read it, analyze, find the message
4. read it, find the message, analyze, make connections

Read the excerpt from “Raymond's Run.”

But now, if anybody has anything to say to Raymond, anything to say about his big head, they have to come by me. And I don’t play the dozens or believe in standing around with somebody in my face doing a lot of talking. I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice...

How can readers tell that the author is using indirect characterization in this excerpt?

She describes Raymond’s physical traits to tell readers about his character.
She describes Squeaky’s physical traits to tell readers about her character.
She uses Raymond’s thoughts and words to tell readers about his character.
She uses Squeaky’s thoughts and words to tell readers about her character.