Profile: Who is Jared Diamond?
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What are Jared Diamond's credentials? (credentials means evidence of authority)

Answer:Jared Mason Diamond is an American geographer, historian, anthropologist, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel; Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval

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what is the difference between do and make?

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Read the passage and answer:

The season of spring brings warm weather and new growth. Many cultures have holidays that celebrate this new and blooming season.
Songkran Water Festival
Thailand celebrates the Songkran Water festival on April 13th-15th. People clean their homes and have parades on the first two days. On the last day, people get water guns, water balloons, and buckets of water. They have a huge water fight. All the local residents and visiting tourists get soaking wet.
Holi
People in India love the colorful holiday of Holi. They get colored powders and colored water. Then, everyone comes to the streets to throw these colors on each other. Indians do this to welcome a colorful spring season.
Semana Santa
Semana Santa means Holy Week. It is celebrated by countries who have large groups of Spanish-speaking Catholic people. Some of these countries are Mexico, Spain, and Guatemala. Semana Santa happens the week before Easter Sunday. First, people go to church. Then, they have parades. People carry large parade floats called pasos which have religious scenes on them. In Guatemala, people make giant rugs on the streets with flowers and dyed sawdust. The parades walk over these rugs, called alfombras.
Cimburijada
People in Bosnia celebrate Cimburijada. Cimburijada means the Festival of Scrambled Eggs. This occurs on March 21st, the first day of spring. In the town of Zenica, people scramble more than 1,500 eggs to share with the whole town. Everyone gathers to eat together.
Cherry Blossom Festivals
Japan and South Korea celebrate cherry blossom trees. Every spring, thousands of cherry blossom trees bloom near the end of March. Japan and South Korea both have cherry blossom festivals to honor these special trees. Japanese people call these pink, flowery trees sakura. They like to have picnics and parties under the sakura trees.
Nowruz
People in Iran and parts of Central and South Asia celebrate Nowruz, which means “New Day.” It is the beginning of the Persian New Year. The Persian New Year begins when spring begins. People clean their homes for Nowruz and buy new clothing. They also visit people they love and eat customary foods.
Tulip Festivals
Many countries around the world have tulip festivals. Tulips are bright flowers that can bloom in many colors. Millions of people visit festivals in the United States in Skagit Valley, Washington, and Holland, Michigan every year. Australia has a Tulip Time festival, too. Since Australia is in the Southern part of Earth, their festival begins in September.
Different cultures celebrate spring in a variety of ways. Nevertheless, all people around the world appreciate the arrival of warm weather, blossoming flowers, and the opportunity to spend time together.

Question: Which items, mentioned in the passage, can bloom?
A Pasos and alfombras
B Sakura and tulips
C Water and colorful powders
D Eggs and cherries

1. According to the article, "Drought Report," which of the following are
not effects of a drought?
A. famine
B. disease
C. refugees
D. changes in climate

Read the following advertisement "The Opportunity of a Lifetime" and answer the question.

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Which claim is supported by evidence in the form of statistics?

Citizens of developed countries do not know how good life is.
There are different ways to experience other cultures.
There are many people who need help throughout the world.
To help others, you need to travel to other countries.

What Christian belief does Donne express in the last two lines?

What factors do you think were responsible for her family being kept in the dark about the many ways in which the study of her cells were contributing to medical science?Henrietta

in "everday use" what is the primary symbol that represents the family members differing views of their history and culture?

From the story A Long Way Gone How does Beah use the details of his childhood and the trip with his friends to help readers understand the horror of the attack on his hometown?

Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows:


(1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.


Now we are engaged in a great civil war … testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated … can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.


(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate … we cannot consecrate … we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Bold: it can never forget what they did here.

What does President Lincoln clearly state by the line in bold?


The world will never think about what happened.

The world will always remember what happened.

The world will always ignore what happened.

The world will likely reject what happened.

Lea's Load
by B. K. McSwain

"Lea! Did you eat the last apple I was going to use to make us a pie? Don't you know there's a war going on?" her mother shouted out the window.
Lea, sitting below on the apartment stoop, tossed an apple core into the bushes; yes, she knew there was a war going on. Ever since that German guy decided to invade Poland, there had been a war going on turning her life in Rome, Italy, inside out and upside down until she couldn't even eat an apple in peace. Lea grabbed the bucket and trudged to the custodian's closet for a mop with little consolation that her work efforts helped pay the rent while papa was away in the war. Fear inched up her spine as she opened the door to the dark, dank, and dusty closet. She steeled herself to run in and run out when a movement in the corner caught her attention.
Sunlight streamed in, shining a beacon on blonde hair that stuck up like thatch from a young man's head as he crouched, clothed in a tattered German uniform, with his arms wrapped around his knees, shaking and muttering.
Read the excerpt. Which word(s) and phrase best complete the sentence?

By starting the passage with
, the writer

What tone is created by the
alliteration and language in
these lines from Part II of
Beowulf?
42 To lavish their lustre || on
land-folk and races,

Read the following paragraph from Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and then answer the question that follows:

I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perve rted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.


What meaning does the author's diction provide in the line in bold?

Government is a practical necessity.
Many governments are impractical.
Governments are supposed to be large.
Some governments are perfect systems.

What are some effects of the holocaust? She walked along the river until a policeman stopped her. It was one o'clock, he said. Not the best time to be walking alone by the side of a half-frozen river. He smiled at her, then offered to walk her home. It was the first day of the new year, 1946, eight and a half months after the British tanks had rumbled into Bergen-Belsen.

That February, my mother turned twenty-six. It was difficult for strangers to believe that she had ever been a concentration camp inmate. Her face was smooth and round. She wore lipstick and applied mascara to her large dark eyes. She dressed fashionably. But when she looked into the mirror in the mornings before leaving for work, my mother saw a shell, a mannequin who moved and spoke but who bore only a superficial resemblance to her real self. The people closest to her had vanished. She had no proof that they were truly dead. No eyewitnesses had survived to vouch for her husband's death. There was no one living to see her parents die. The lack of confirmation haunted her. At night before she went to sleep and during the day as she stood pinning dresses she wondered if, by some chance, her parents had gotten past the Germans or had crawled out of the mass grave into which they had been shot and were living, old and helpless, somewhere in Poland. What if only one of them had died? What if they had survived and had died of cold or hunger after she had been liberated, while she was in Celle dancing with British officers?

She did not talk to anyone about these things. No one, she thought, wanted to hear them. She woke up in the mornings, went to work, bought groceries, went to the Jewish Community Center and to the housing office like a robot.

23) The author's main purpose in writing this selection is most likely to

A. Inform people about atrocities in the concentration camp
B. Explain the long range effects of a traumatic emotional experience
C. Enlist active participation in refugee affairs
D. Encourage people to prosecute former concentration camp guards
E. Gain sympathy from her readers

8. Meter influences all of the following elements in a poem except it’s ___ .

It's easy to use our new online swim finder.simply select the swimming pool you want to visit ,....the time you want,and ...the oaymebt method

Those men who survived—those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them—those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received. Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth. Thus did men—men with nothing to offer save their great number—lose the steel towers, the flying ships, the power wires, all the things they had not created and could never keep.

What connection does the narrator make between collectivism and human invention?
People in a collective society often dismiss the need for human progress and creativity.
People who prefer collective thought are unable to contribute new ideas to mankind’s progress.
Societies in which people live for one another tend to cooperate and produce innovative developments.
Societies that have the greatest number of people need to have more inventions and produce more.

is we will attend the city council meeting tonight present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, present progressive, or past progressive?

How do you feel about yourself as a responsive citizen?

Question 1: How does Cisneros accomplish writing something at a lower reading level that is intellectually stimulating for older students? In other words, why is this book best studied in 11th grade, when a 5th grader might be able to read it easily? from The House Of Mango.

Read the passage.

From John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
In this passage, what does Kennedy say that Americans dare not forget?


that they are a new generation of Americans

that they are witnessing the loss of human rights

that they are loyal to their nation and the world

that they are descendants of freedom fighters

Using two (2) examples each, explain any three (3) linguistic vices studied in the course so far and show how each can be corrected.

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Question 25(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (LC) Read the sentence: Our plan is to rove the country, traveling by car and camping when we feel a need to stop. Which word could you substitute for rove that tells the reader that it was a carefree and fun trip? O Drift: to move in a random or casual way Gad: to be on the go without specific aim or purpose Gallivant: to go about, or roam for pleasure O Saunter: to walk about in a leisurely way​

Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence slows down the pace to create mystery in the passage?
(6) Usually, at the beginning of school, there was a great uproar which could be heard in tthe street, desks opening and
closing, lessons repeated aloud in unison, with our ears stuffed in order to learn quicker, and the teacher's stout [shout]:
(7) "A little more quiet!"
(8) I counted on all this noise to reach my bench unnoticed, but as it happened, that day everything was quiet, like a Sunday
morning. Through the open window I saw my comrades already in their places, and Monsieur Hamel walking back and
forth.... I had to open the door and enter, in the midst of that perfect silence. You can imagine whether I blushed and
whether I was afraid!
(9) But no! Monsieur Hamel looked at me with no sign of anger and said very gently:
(10) "Go at once to your seat, my little Frantz; we were going to begin without you."
(11) I stepped over the bench and sat down at once at my desk. Not until then, when I had partly recovered from my fright.
did I notice that our teacher had on his handsome blue coat, his plaited ruff, and the black embroidered breeches, which
he wore on days of inspection or of distribution of prizes. Moreover, there was something extraordinary, something solemn
about the whole class

Read the excerpt from 'The Rosetta Stone."
is Which is the best summary of this paragraph?
Egyptian scripts were replaced with Coptic, which
included six demotic characters. In the ninth century,
• After Coptic became the prominent script, it was
Arab scholar Abu Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Wahshiyah was able
replaced by Arabic, which resulted in breaking
to partly decipher the hieroglyphs by comparing them to
society's connection to ancient times.
Coptic. But in the eleventh century, it too was replaced,
For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of
by Arabic. The link was once again severed. For
different languages tried to figure out the meaning of
centuries, Western scholars tried to decipher the
hieroglyphs.
hieroglyphs, with little success. They were working
Hieroglyphs are letters, not symbols representing
under a false hypothesis, that the hieroglyphs were
whole idea, which many scholars throughout history
pictograms, with each symbol representing an object or
were not aware of.
an idea.
For a long time, scholars from different places tried to
figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs, but they
mistakenly believed each hieroglyph was a symbol.
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The water was cold,
O for
O or
O nor
O yet
the correct word.
the kids still wanted to go for a swim.

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Which reason would best refute the counterclaim? Only die-hard fans and the uninformed would argue that Bob Dylan's lyrics are literature. It is impossible to separate song lyrics from the music that accompanies them. Song lyrics are no better than childish nonsense without the music that accompanies them. Dylan has written many enduring songs and received many awards for his musical achievements.

the pride of the Laputan King in Gulliver's Travels?

URGENT!! Write a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter using at least one figure of speech and one sound effect.