It was official. Khufu had been crowned king of Egypt, and one of his first duties was to find a place to build his tomb. It would be his own special site, a new place that was away from the pyramids of the kings that had ruled before him. Khufu had plans to build an enormous complex, one that would include smaller pyramids for his mother and his wives, and many tombs for the rest of his family and the members of his court. To do so, he needed a very large area. He also had to follow religious tradition and choose a site that lay on the west side of the Nile River, in the direction of the setting sun. According to the ancient Egyptians, the sun died every night in the west and was born again in the east the next morning. Therefore, it was customary to bury people on the west bank of the river so that they could travel with the sun god through the night and be reborn with him at dawn.

Exactly What Was Needed

For the Egyptians, the desert was the perfect cemetery. As it lay beyond the reaches of the Nile's floodwaters, the tombs and bodies remained safe and dry. The desert was also the best place to find stone to build tombs. Equally important was the fact that by using the desert, the Egyptians kept the fertile strip of land along the eastern bank of the Nile for farmland.
But why pick Giza? When choosing a site, Khufu had had to keep other requirements in mind as well. The pyramid had to be near the city of Memphis, Egypt's capital at the time and the center of his government. Memphis traced its origins to the beginning of
Egyptian history. It had been founded by a king named Menes, who chose the area
because it was at the point where Upper and Lower Egypt met.
As the meeting point for many trade routes, Memphis was filled with government offices, temples, and houses for the officials who ran the country. The city's chief deity was Ptah, the creator god. The Egyptians also honored Ptah as the patron of craftsmen—the people who made pottery, carved statues, and painted the pictures that covered the walls of tombs and temples.

Near a God's City

The pyramid also needed to be near Heliopolis. Located on the east bank of the Nile, the city was sacred to the sun god Re, the most important deity in Egypt at the time. Re was worshipped in a temple at Heliopolis that was surrounded by statues and obelisks. Obelisks are tall pillars that are topped by small pyramids and acted as symbols of the sun. The Egyptians often covered the tops with gold so that they would reflect and shine in the sunlight. Egyptologists think that there might have been a special large obelisk in the temple at Heliopolis. Perhaps Khufu thought that his pyramid had to have a view of the temple and its obelisk.
Giza, however, was not the only site in the western desert that was near Memphis and had a view of Heliopolis. Khufu chose Giza because it had a large, flat plateau that was high above the floodplain and because there was a lot of good-quality building material in the area. Giza was also close enough to the Nile for Khufu's construction teams to transport additional building materials and supplies to the site by boat. Excavations offer evidence that workers dug a huge harbor at the foot of the Giza Plateau so that the imported goods could be brought as close as possible to the pyramid site.

A Family Affair

While his own tomb complex was being built, Khufu planned for the burials of his family and courtiers. Three small pyramids were erected to the east of his pyramid, perhaps for his mother and two of his wives. Two huge cemeteries were laid out like miniature towns to the east and west of Khufu's pyramid. Arranged in rows along narrow streets, the tombs were houses for the dead. Members of Khufu's immediate family were given tombs in the eastern cemetery. The western cemetery was mostly for courtiers. The tombs in these cemeteries are solid rectangles with sides that slope inward. Egyptologists call them mastabas, because they look like benches (mastabas in Arabic) found outside traditional Egyptian homes. The mastabas were built of limestone, just as the pyramids were. The small rooms inside were decorated with images of the dead person in front of tables piled high with food. Relatives of the dead person came to these rooms to visit their loved ones, to say prayers for their souls, and to bring their spirits more food and drink. The bodies of the deceased were placed in huge stone coffins that were in rooms dug into the stone below the mastabas. Khufu ordered the construction of a great many tombs in these two cemeteries. Only after they were built did he assign them to specific people: Some were family members, others were courtiers and officials who had proved themselves worthy of a burial site near that of the king. Every person who was given a tomb then placed his or her name in the tomb chapel and chose the decorations. After Khufu died, the cemetery remained in use for hundreds of years.

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What is the first lesson of changing your brain? Why is this important?

Btw: this is from the Ted Talk "After Watching This, Your Brain Will Never Be The Same"​

Can someone help me

Which group’s website's should you trust to provide accurate information about early space travel?
A local astronomy club
The rock band Pocket Rocket
Spaceships R Us
NASA (National Air and Space Agency)

Please help me!

The excerpt below is what type of paragraph?

As a building material, adobe has several advantages. The
raw materials — mud, straw, and water — are
available just about anywhere. The dried, finished bricks
are easily stacked to make walls, doorways, and window
openings. In addition, the bricks have a high R-value,
making them great insulators.

A) Process
B) Topical
C) Comparison
D) Transitional

Diondra secretly —
A is excited to present her poem
B is proud of her basketball skills
C sees herself as an artist
D enjoys being very tall

which figurative language is for the following sentences.
1. The hotel room was so small, even the mice had hunched shoulders.
2.Misael played the violin like an expert.​

what are some tips on writing poems because I have to write one and I have no Idea where to start

Question 1 of 20 In the post-reading stage, you should ask yourself "What have I learned?" in order to: O A. determine if you've achieved your purpose. O B. form an opinion. c. provide a motivation for reading the text again. O D. evaluate the author's agenda.
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Activity 4
Punctuate a passage
Rewrite the passage below using the correct punctuation for direct speech.
Anna said proudly I got an A for my essay
And tell me said her mother what was it about
Mr Joka said that the characters I created were brilliant. One of them
was you declared Anna
Her mother laughed well, I'd like to see your essay​

he plays __

good
well

choose the sentence that is punctuated and capitalized correctly ​

30. what are 4 poetic sound devices in the song Drivers License? If u help I give brainliest​

match the correct definition to the correct type of media.

{Information transmitted to people using airwaves or digital data}

{an electronic form of communication that reaches people through electronic devices}

{material published on paper to deliver information to various people}
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Those clouds are lovely; __________, they signal coming bad weather.

The ___ of the story can typically be discovered when you determine the lesson learned in the story.

Underline the adjective in the following sentence and tell their types: 1: Sonu is an honest boy. 2. English army ran away. 3. He has no book . 4. My father gave me one thousand rupees. 5. These fruits are sour. 6. Every world is right . 7. You have lost all the wealth. 8. Which game you play? 9. I have enough money. 10. I saw the whole scene with my own eyes.
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What is the purpose of the film 'Isle of Dogs' ?

“… blue convertible, content to stay in line” is an example of which literary device?

Directions: Identify what kind of figurative language is used in each example below. Place the number next to each example to form the code.

1 paradox
3 metaphor
5 oxymoron
7 personification
2 alliteration
4 onomatopoeia
6 simile



____ “breath of rain”

____ “revealed in half-concealing”

_____ “song which someone was singing”

_____ “monstrous joy”

_____ “storm of grief”

_____ “clouds that had met”

_____ “the sounds, the scents”

_____ “she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory”

How does Douglass's presentation of the information in this portion of paragraph 1 help to advance his overall argument concerning
slavery?
A)
It makes the reader conclude that some slaves had it worse than others.
B)
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It makes the reader aware of the reasons why slavery was first put into
practice in the American South
It makes the reader see the dehumanization inherent in a slave being
raised without knowing his birthday.
It helps the reader to understand the mentality by which a slaveowner
justified separating families.

Two Moods from the Hill theme?

I.
YOUTH

I Love to watch the world from here, for all
The numberless living portraits that are drawn
Upon the mind. Far over is the sea,
Fronting the sand, a few great yellow dunes,
5 A salt marsh stumbling after, rank and green,
With brackish gullies wandering in between,
All this from the hill.
And more: a clump of dwarfed and twisted cedars,
Sentinels over the marsh, and bright with the sun
10 A field of daisies wandering in the wind
As though a hidden serpent glided through,
A broken wall, a new-plowed field, and then
The dusty road and the abodes of men
Surrounding the hill.
15 How small the enclosure is wherein there lives
Each phase and passion of life, the distant sail
Dips in the limpid1 bosom of the sea,
From that far place to where in state the turf
Raises a throne for me upon the hill,
20 Each little love of a living thing
Can thus be compassed in a rainbow ring
And seen from the hill.

II.
AGE


Why did I build my cottage on a hill facing the sea?

Why did I plan each terraced lawn to slope
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Down to the deep blue billowy breast of hope,

Surging and sweeping,

Laughing and leaping,

Tumbling its garments of foam upon the shore,

Rustling the sands that know my step no more,
30
I should have found a valley, deep and still,

To shelter me.

There flows the river, and it seems asleep

So far away,

Yet I remember whip of wave and roar
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Of wind that rose and smote2 against the oar,

Smote and retreated,

Proud but defeated,

While I rejoiced and rowed into the brine,

Drawing on wet and heavy-straining line
40
The great cod quivering from the deep

As counterplay.

What is the solace of these hills and vales

That rise and fall?

What is there glorious in the greenwood glen,
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Or twittering thrush or wing of darting wren?

Give me the gusty,

Raucous and rusty

Call of the seagull in the echoing sky,

The wild shriek of the winds that cannot die,
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Give me the life that follows the bending sails,

Or none at all!

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you were recently on a school trip hen something unusal happened

how could a positive bias most likely enter into a radio report ?

A. bright colors in photos

B. fast, upbeat background music

C.slow gloomy background music

D. blue filters on the photos

What type of word group is the following?

Walking down the street

A. Phrase
B. Dependent Clause
C. Independent Clause
D. Dependent Phrase

Define these in your own words

Utility

Cash Flow

Spending Habits

Purchasing Power

Cost/Benefit Analysis

Budget

Answer please, To Kill a Mockingbird (red squared question)

Why didn’t Mora speak Spanish in school? How did
she feel about this decision

1. What New York feature disappoints the author?
A. the darkness
B. the gold streets
C. the boys and girls