Answer:
C. Expressing criticism or contempt.
Explanation:
The word "opprobrious" means to criticize or say a bad word about a particular thing. It contains a negative meaning for the given word and is used as a means of expressing scorn or derogatory word about the thing.
In the given passage from The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, the four survivors of the shipwreck were on a lifeboat, hoping and looking for the sight of any help, land or people to be saved. And in their eagerness to be found, they were oblivious to the fact that there was no lifesaving station nearby. And as a result, they blamed the "nation's lifesavers" for their poor eyesight and their inability to see them struggle out in the sea. The author used the word "opprobrious" to state how the four men criticized and expressed their negative feelings about the inability of the men supposed to be out working to save any survivors out at sea.
Answer:
expressing criticism or contempt
Explanation:
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Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer:
A candle wick.
Explanation:
A candle wick because when a candle's young, it's wick is very long. When it gets older, the wick goes down as the flame melts it.
Answer:
candle
Explanation:
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Answer:
C
Explanation:
It uses appropriate language, this shows professionalism. It also shows that you have a good resume.
The public library is essential to our community. Students need a safe and quiet place to complete their homework. However, the city council plans to cut the library's hours. This will limit students' time to study and conduct research after school. I am writing to urge you to vote against these cuts. If the budget is an issue, perhaps volunteers from the local community college can help staff the library.
Answer: 1. Public library is essential
2. City council plans to cut library hours
3. Students will not have a place to study
4. Volunteers can staff the library
Explanation:
Answer:
Use the body of the sample e-mail to a city official to answer the questions.
What is the viewpoint?
✔ The public library is essential.
What is the problem?
✔ The city council plans to cut library hours.
What is an effect of the problem?
✔ Students will not have a place to study.
What is the proposed solution?
✔ The city could redistribute funds from taxes.
Explanation:
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Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
A.
It rained heavily, during the afternoon but we managed to have our picnic anyway.
B.
It rained heavily during the afternoon but we managed, to have our picnic anyway.
C.
It rained, heavily during the afternoon but we managed, to have our picnic anyway.
D.
It rained heavily during the afternoon, but we managed to have our picnic anyway.
Answer:
D.
Explanation:
It rained heavily during the afternoon, but we managed to have our picnic anyway.
The comma splits an independent clause and a dependent clause.
Answer:
D.
Explanation:
In the afternoon people went to watch the gladiators. The correct negative form is :
Opciones:
b. In the afternoon people didn’t go to watch the gladiators
a. In the afternoon people didn’t went to watch the gladiators
c. In the afternoon people didn’t goed to watch the gladiators
Answer:
b. In the afternoon people didn’t go to watch the gladiators
Explanation:
B. In the afternoon people didn’t go to watch the gladiators
1.What are natural rights?2.How would you describe them in your own words?
Answer:
Natural rights are those rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government.
Compare and contrast the imagery of the sea every time the fisherman speaks to the fish. How do these setting descriptions contribute to the theme of the story? (Story: the fisherman and his wife)
Answer: The setting descriptions represent how bad and greedy the wishes of the fisherman's wife are, every time he goes back to the flounder and asks for another luxury.
Explanation: In the story, the fisherman's wife obligates him to go with the mystical flounder that has magical powers, she forces him to wish for more and more luxuries each time, but every time the man goes back to the flounder, the scenery is darker, creepier, and has worse climate conditions than before. Even though the man does not want to go and make a wish, the conditions of the weather make it clear that they are going too far, and should stop making greedy wishes.
Which excerpt from “Initiation” is the best example of an internal conflict?
Answer:
Which sentence is an example of magic realism?
Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention.
Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings.
Its layers protect her.
She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her.Explanation:
Which plot detail adds to the mood of anticipation?
Answer:
Nurse agrees to help Romeo and Juliet marry
Explanation:
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, what is the reason that people in other countries are participating in the Black Lives Matter protests?
Answer:
Being racist is wrong
Explanation:
Because of that people in other coutnries are defending blacks becuase we don't do any thing wrong but we still get treated unfairly. If i was in another coutry i would be mad too.
Yael is writing an essay about the development of folk
tales. Read the excerpt from her essay
Every culture throughout time has had its own folk tales,
which were first transmitted from person to person with the
technology available at the time. Folk tales began as an
oral tradition. With the invention of written language, folk
tales were recorded by community scribes, until 1450,
when the printing press was invented. The result was a
wider distribution of folk tales, which were collected in
books.
Based on the beginning of Yael's essay, how does the
structure support her central idea?
Yael gives details in order of importance, which does not
support her central idea by showing development.
Yael gives details in order of importance, which supports
her central idea by showing development.
Yael gives details in chronological order, which does not
support her central idea because it does not show
development
Yael gives details in chronological order, which supports
her central idea by showing development.
Answer:
D. Yael gives details in chronological order, which supports her central idea by showing development.
Explanation:
Answer:
The answer is option "D"
Explanation: As Yael was writing the story, he used events in the order that they happened. This kind of arrangement is commonly referred to as "Chronological Order"
Question 10
Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows.
Halloween is believed to have come from an ancient Celtic festival dating back some
2,000 years. November 1st was the Celtic New Year and marked the end of summer
to the Celts, so they celebrated on its eve by wearing costumes made of animal skins
and dancing around bonfires. Over the next two millennia, this primitive celebration
grew to become the candy-fueled costume ball we know today.
What would be a suitable title for this paragraph?
A:Halloween: Origins and History
B:Celtic New Year
C:Two millennia
D:Candy-fueled
explain answer
Answer:
I think is Celtic new year
Read this excerpt from Holes.
At the time, Elya thought nothing of the curse. He was just a fifteen-year-old kid, and “eternity” didn’t seem much longer than a week from Tuesday. Besides, he liked Madame Zeroni and would be glad to carry her up the mountain. He would have done it right then and there, but he wasn’t yet strong enough.
How does this section of the flashback relate to Stanley?
Elya was much older during his difficult time than Stanley was during his.
Elya’s physical weakness parallels Stanley’s physical weakness.
Elya, like Stanley, lives in the moment and does not consider the future.
Elya, like Stanley, likes the character who is giving him a hard time.
Answer:
The answer is b
Explanation:
Answer:
B: Elya's physical weakness parallels Stanley's physical weakness
Explanation:
my wife said to me I'm ready for your lunch change into passive voice
In lines 1415-1416, the Chorus Leader tells Creon, "Alas, it seems you’ve learned to see what’s right—but far too late." What chances was Creon given to "see what’s right," and how did he respond? How does this relate to the unfolding of the tragedy?
Answer:
Teiresias advised Creon to consider his decision.Explanation:
Creon was advised by Teiresias to consider his decision of putting Antigone to death as great grief would befall upon him if he killed Antigone. Teiresias warned him that his son would pay for his actions if he did not change his decision.Creon on hearing the advice from Teiresias became furious and accused him of being bribed with profits to say such horrible things to him.This relate to the unfolding of the tragedy as his son, Haemon, kills himself after Antigone's death and subsequently his wife, Eurydice, kills herself after the death of their son.What should follow a dependent clause when the dependent clause comes first in a sentence.
Answer:
A comma
Explanation:
Example:
After he ate the burger(,) he wasn't hungry anymore
Answer:
[tex]\huge \boxed{\mathrm{Independent \ clause}}[/tex]
[tex]\rule[225]{225}{2}[/tex]
Explanation:
An independent clause is a complete sentence that expresses a complete thought.
A dependent clause is not a complete sentence that does not express a complete thought.
A dependent clause should be followed by an independent clause, to complete the thought of the sentence.
[tex]\rule[225]{225}{2}[/tex]
The faculty was able to teach computer science classes now that the school built a new lab.
Which words could replace the subordinating conjunction in the sentence while maintaining its original structure? Check all that apply.
and
because
but
since
so
Answer:
because
since
Explanation:
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries.
What is the 3 literary devices:
1.
2.
3.
Explanation:
Answer:
alliteration, simile, and imagery
Explanation:
alliteration: slowly sinking
simile: crumbling LIKE pastries
imagery: visual
1. Where is Seuss Landing located? * 2. What was Dr. Seuss' real name? * 3. Who must approve anything made from Dr. Seuss' stories? * 4. What actor starred as the Grinch in movie version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas? 5. What books did Dr. Seuss write? Choose all that apply. * the Cat in the Hat Green Eggs and Ham Are you My Mother? How the Grinch Stole Christmas Go, Dog. Go! Holes Oh, The Places You'll Go
Answer:
1.universal Orlando resort
2.Theodor Seuss Geisel
3.Jim Carrey
4.the cat in the hat and green eggs and ham
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W poniższych zdaniach wybierz poprawna opcje przykład: before i went to high school I practised/had practised swimming for 5 years 1 after jack had won the tournament he decided /had decide to continue his career about it
Answer:
1) had already
2) lost
3) had left
4) as soon as
5) after
Question:
In the following sentences, select the correct options.
example: before i went to high school I practised/had practised swimming for 5 years 1 after jack had won the tournament he decided /had decide to continue his career about it.
1) He had already come / has already come back from the tournament when I saw him on Tuesday.
2) Before Karol had lost / lost yesterday, he had been a champion for 3 years.
3) I realized I left / had left my tennis racket at home.
4) As soon as / Before Mary came back home, she turned on the TV to watch the volleyball match.
5) After / Before the kids had taken photos with the Harlem Globetrotter athletes, they went home.
Explanation:
Example: Before i went to high school, I had practised swimming for 5 years. 1 after jack had won the tournament he decided to continue his career about it.
1) He had already come back from the tournament when I saw him on Tuesday.
'Had already' is a past perfect and it's used to express that something occurred (in the past) before another action took place in the past.
2) Before Karol lost yesterday, he had been a champion for 3 years.
'Before' is used to describe the order of events in the past or future. It is a subordinating conjunction.
'Lost' is past tense. The Past tense is followed by the past perfect tense (had)
3) I realized I had left my tennis racket at home.
'Had left' is a past perfect tense. It is used to order events in the past.
4) As soon as Mary came back home, she turned on the TV to watch the volleyball match.
'As soon as' is a subordinating conjunction. It is used to show that something happens immediately another action is completed.
5) After the kids had taken photos with the Harlem Globetrotter athletes, they went home.
'After' is a subordinating conjunction. It is used to link an event to a point in time. It is used to show an action occurred next in line to another.
In "Civil Disobedience," what is Thoreau’s last thought about the state before he loses respect for it?
Answer:
B, he thinks the state can't tell its friends from its enemies.
Explanation:
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Answer:
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What is the purpose of the graph in this document?
to present data about the recyclable items referenced
to indicate which commonly discarded items are recyclable
to illustrate the improvement in recycling rates over time
to show why some items are difficult to recycle
Answer:
A: to present data about the recyclable items referenced
Explanation:
A. to present data about the recyclable items referenced
the graph is, uses for graphs and types of graphs like bar graphs, line graphs, or pie graphs. What is a graph? A graph is a visual representation of numerical data. Graphs provide a visual way to summarize complex data or to show the relationship between different variables and sets of data.
How do you get a graph on a Word document?
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Explain the difference between having implicit bias
and being racist.
Why do you think that this distinction is important to understand when exploring implicit bias? In other words, what could be the danger of confusing racism and implicit bias?
Answer:
being implicit bias is a term that describes what's happening when, despite our best intentions and without our awareness, racial stereotypes and assumptions creep into our minds and affect our actions, there more like thought you didn’t know you had. however being racist a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who strongly believes that a particular race is superior to another. in other words someone who deeply believes people should be discriminated based on their skin color. Implicit bias usually comes off as being racist however it’s not. being implicit bias comes from the messages, attitudes, and stereotypes we pick up from the world we live in, and research over time and from different countries shows that it tends to line up with general social hierarchies. the danger of confusing these two are being implicit biased you might come off racist, implicit biases are reactionary, volatile, largely under the radar of conscious awareness. They do not imply blanket racism.
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Explain how the story “We Wear The Mask” shows that it is difficult to understand other people? Evidence
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Answer:
It is difficult to understand other people because they may hide their emotions to avoid being criticized or maltreated.
The poem says “We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes”
This shows their treatment in a white society.
Which story premise is most clearly a classic tragedy?
O A. Nathaniel spends a long time building his house, but it still falls
apart.
B. Over the course of Mia's life, one unlucky thing after another
happens.
O C. Hurricane Don approaches land, forcing Drew to leave his home
behind.
D. Gillian starts a successful company, but her arrogance brings it
down.
Please help me
Answer:
to understand the values expressed in a myth what are the best elements in the story for a reader to considerxplanation:
Answer:D
(Gillian starts a successful company..)
Explanation:
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In Common Sense, Thomas Paine strengthens his argument by __________. listing the ways Asia has failed and enraged America describing his early life in England flattering the king of England presenting counterarguments and showing why they are wrong
Answer:
d) presenting counterarguments and showing why they are wrong
Explanation:
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Answer:
d is the correct answer
Explanation:
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Why we called the earth and the blue planet
Answer:
planet Earth has been called the "Blue Planet" due to the abundant water on its surface. Here on Earth, we take liquid water for granted; after all, our bodies are mostly made of water.
Explanation:
Hi there! Explain why we need eletricity and water in our lives. If we don't need it, why?
Answer:
we need electricity and water in our lives as nowadays technology is increasing and to make use of technology we need electricity and in our homes also many of the things are performed with the help of electricity only and at night also if we don't have electricity there are many problems we face and water is essential for our live as without water we can't survive we could survive but after 1-2 days we'll die due to lack of water and nowadays there is so much global warming that it is essential for our body to drink alot of water in every certain time period and if we don't take then dehydration will take place in our body and we'll face many problems ,so in our lives water and electricity are essential .
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