My cell phone rings again. It is futile to ignore it; Valerie is persistent. When she wants something, she will continue to harass me until I give in.

"Hello," I answer.

"State Fair, Bobbie?" she asks in her singsong voice. "When are we heading out? Only two more days left!"

I abhor the State Fair. The boisterous crowds, the insanely long lines, and the impossibility of finding a clean restroom all combine to make this an event that I utterly detest.

For Valerie, my best friend since middle school, the State Fair is a sign that divine powers really do exist.

"Really, Bobbie, where else can you pet a cow, ride a horse, fall ten stories, see the world’s smallest person and eat fried macaroni and cheese?" Valerie asks gleefully.

"Hades?" I guess.

The fried food at the State Fair is a gastronomical nightmare on its own. I once tried a fried pickle at the fair and was sick to my stomach for hours. And a fried donut hamburger with bacon, cheese, AND a greasy egg? How could that not be deleterious? Consuming a single serving of fair food has the potential to take years off your life. And I think about this. But then my better nature takes hold, and an image of Valerie's face on the other end of the line comes into view. I haven't seen her for a good month; our schedules are both so hectic. By and by, my hatred of the State Fair becomes inconsequential compared to my desire to spend time with Val. Besides, I don't have to eat the disgusting fair food. I can simply admire it from a safe distance.

Alas, I ignore my anti-fair bias for the umpteenth year. "Pick me up at noon," I say and hang up the phone.
According to the passage, Bobbie finally agrees to go to the fair because

A. Valerie convinces her using a tempting description
B. Valerie coerces her using peer pressure
C. she recognizes that she does not have to eat fair food
D. she wants to spend time with Valerie

Answer: D. she wants to spend time with Valerie.

Explanation:

It says in the passage, "An image of Valerie's face on the other end of the line comes into view. I haven't seen her for a good month; our schedules are both so hectic. By and by, my hatred of the State Fair becomes inconsequential compared to my desire to spend time with Val. Besides, I don't have to eat the disgusting fair food. I can simply admire it from a safe distance."

James F. Gilligan is a professor of psychiatry and the clinical director of a prison mental health service. He states, “I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this ‘loss of face’—no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death.” How do his comments relate to Jeanne’s father? What do they suggest about the relationship between respect and self-esteem? Do you agree or dis- agree? Why?

Which transition best completes the sentence? even though because additionally however

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Prompt
Write an argumentative essay for or against setting long-term goals to land a dream job.
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The underlined section is referred to as a(n) couplet iamb. pentameter. quatrain.

I need help what should I do if I'm having a bad day?
do you think I'm a cockroach if so please be honest
I'm a girl 15 years old and freaking hate herself

How can assumptions restrict knowledge and limit perception

how does the American dream in The Great Gatsby relate today?

Which option is a clear example of a hasty generalization?
A. There are two choices: Either you love our leader, or you are a
traitor.
B. Everyone on the bus today was quiet. No one in this city likes to
talk.
C. People who don't like oranges will almost definitely hate kiwifruits.
D. Traveling solo is the best way to travel because of its clear
superiority

Which sentence contains a word that is used correctly?
A. The gardeners planted color-coordinated flowers to turn the garden into a ghastly sight.
B. The neighborhood bully and I have loathed each other since we were young.
C. The billionaire claimed that his poverty was the result of hard work.
D. Squirrels collected data on the acorns produced by each oak tree in our yard.

"The, more, I, think, the, more, certain, I, am, that, obedience, is, the, gateway, through, which, knowledge, enters, the, mind, of, the, child—” (On the word “obedience” a shaft of sunlight hits the water pump outside, while ANNIE’S voice ends in the dark, followed by distant cockcrow . . .) —The Miracle Worker, William Gibson Which detail from the stage directions describes a detail from the setting? The, more, I, think, the, more, certain, I, am” “through, which, knowledge, enters, the, mind, of, the, child—” obedience, is, the, gateway” a shaft of sunlight hits the water pump outside

The, more, I, think, the, more, certain, I, am”
“through, which, knowledge, enters, the, mind, of, the, child—”
obedience, is, the, gateway”
a shaft of sunlight hits the water pump outside

Identify the verb.

Never trust a smiling crocodile.
A. Never
B. trust
C. smiling
D. crocodile

Help I never get English correct

True or False: A dynamic character can look the same at the end of a story as he/she did at the beginning.

Which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word? forced to remove blood . . . of his body instant he stopped fingers . . . his body

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Come quickly

How did Marie react when Pierre was killed?​

Match the word to an antonym. Use a dictionary if necessary.

1. somber
faithful
2. lenient
upset
3. slow
joyous
4. treacherous
rapid
5. plain
ornate
6. settle
insult
7. flatter
severe

I am writing an research paper for something, and I need to make an in-text citation because I made a direct quote.

What are the grammar rules relating to in-text citation? Where would the quotation marks and period go after the citation. How do I write an in-text citation correctly?

Thanks.

What is the most important thing anyone has ever said to you? How did it make you feel?

Roberto whistled and raised his clenched fist in the air. A few seconds later, a loud shriek could be heard. Then a falcon swooped from the sky and landed on Roberto's arm. Roberto laughed and said, "See? He obeys my commands." Talia nodded. "What does he eat?" she asked. Roberto laughed again and said, "She is a she, and she eats what she catches. Field mice, smaller birds, whatever she can wrap her talons around." Talia nodded again.


Nancy rolled around in her bed. Her eyes were wide open. She grabbed a pillow and wrapped it
around her head tightly. Then she shut her eyes. A minute or two passed. Nancy released her grip on the pillow and rolled the other way. She grabbed the controller off the nightstand and turned on the TV. The program featured a man making thick drinks from fresh fruits. Nancy turned off the TV. She rolled back over the other way and curled the pillow around her head again. The crickets chirped.

Coach Nelson was sitting at his desk and scribbling in his playbook. A uniformed player walked into the office and said, "Coach, can I talk to you for a minute?" Coach Nelson held up one finger and continued scribbling in his playbook. The player looked at his watch. Coach Nelson scribbled. The player said, "Coach?" The coach continued scrawling. The player checked his watch again. Then Coach Nelson laughed and said, "That's it!" Then he scrawled with even greater fervor. The player sighed.

Shogga grabbed the sheep by its neck skin and raised it in the air. "Perhaps we will eat sheep tonight,"
Shogga grunted. Tugo looked at Shogga and said, "No. The shaman protects him. This sheep is to be our luck." Shogga scoffed and said, "Shogga does not believe in magic. Shogga believes in eating." Tugo gently grabbed the stone axe that Shogga was holding and lowered it toward the ground. Then he said, "We need the shaman now, Shogga. We eat later." Shogga grimaced.

The children huddled in a circle. The big girl with pigtails said, "Ok, no tag backs, no unfreezes, no safeties." The tallboy sang a melodic tune. Each time he said a new syllable, he pointed at a different child. The tall boy ended the tune by saying, "And... you... are... it!" When he said the last word, he was pointing at a small pale boy. The pale boy's eyes widened. All of the other kids ran in different directions. The pale boy began counting down from 10.


these passages are:
A.first-person
B.second-person
C.third-person limited
D.third-person omniscient

plllz help
having it both ways sonnets by ELIZABETH JENNINGS
Analyze In "Having It Both Ways," lines 9-13 consist of a series of questions. How do these questions represent a shift in thought from the ideas stated in the first eight lines?
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Anything you like to write to your teacher?

“The Grateful Crane”
How do the Japanese regard cranes?




How does Musai help the crane?



Describe Musai’s wife.




How does Musai’s wife help the family when famine threatens them?




What does Musai discover?



What is the tale’s denouement?



Did Musai deserve his fate? Explain.

Which word is the antonym (word with opposite meaning) of "lessening"?

Use 10 adverbs of manner explaining your mom's activities. Write in simple present tense.

Which phrase represents another way to say chronological order?
thematic order
problematic order
spatial order
sequential order

Before 1845, “states were allowed to hold elections any time they pleased within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December.” What was one effect of this election system?
Voters in states with late elections knew the results of early elections.
Farmers were often unable to get to their polling place in time to vote.
The people who voted first could decide the outcome of most elections.
People spent less time in church because they would often travel to vote on Sundays.

What does her mother want to sell in order to buy things in the camp's
black market? *
Ha's doll
Her Sair
Her ring
Her clothes
Other:

Which best describes the relationship between brainstorming and writing a first draft? A. Brainstorming expands the ideas sketched out in a first draft. B. A first draft begins to develop the ideas generated in brainstorming. C. Brainstorming is not possible without writing a first draft. D. A first draft uses all of the ideas created in brainstorming.

"It is wintertime. The weather is cold, but the ants are doing fine. They have their warm home, and they have a lot of food to eat. They can wait for the warm weather in spring. The reason the ants have a lot of food is because they worked in the summer.
So now they have grain to eat. Grain is a kind of plant. People plant it and cut it and then they use it to make bread. The ants get the grain in summer, because that is when grain grows. The ants live in the fields where the grain grows. When the wind blows, some grain falls and the ants rush to get it. They do not eat it right then. They save it because they need to be able to have food in the winter months when plants do not grow. This goes on all summer.
The ants work hard every day. They pick up the grain, they carry it to their home. Every ant helps. Each ant carries one piece of grain. It is hard work. They carry more than they need to eat every day. They carry grain they will eat in winter, too. They play sometimes, but most of the time they work.
The grasshoppers live near the ants, and they love summer. They hop and play and they laugh at the ants. They say, “We have fun every day while you work every day. Come and play. You can get grain later.” But the ants say, “No, we have to work.”
Soon it is winter, and the grasshoppers are cold. They are hungry, too. They do not have food to eat. Since they played all summer, they did not save food for winter.
One day, a grasshopper came to see the ants and he was very hungry. “Please, ants, could you help me a little bit? I am just so hungry!” said the grasshopper.
The ants asked him, "Why didn’t you work in summer? We did. Remember, how you played while we worked? You made fun of us and said, ‘All work and no play is no good.’ Well, now we have food and you are hungry.”
The grasshopper said, "I didn't have the time. The weather was so lovely that I spent all the days singing. I couldn’t help but have fun. We had such a good time.”
The ants said, “We are sorry you have no food. We have a lot because we worked hard. You have none because you played. But, we will give you some food because we are good, kind neighbors. We want you to live, so we will help you now. But learn from us. Playing is a lot of fun. But you need to work to live.”
The grasshopper thanked the ants. The grasshopper had learned a lesson. It is fun to play, but you need to save for winter, too. You need to work if you want to eat. Next summer, he would work and play, too, just like the ants."




Which sentence from the story is an example of an opinion?


"We want you to live, so we will help you now"



"Grain is a kind of plant"



"The grasshoppers live near the ants"



"It is fun to play, but you need to save for winter, too"

Based on the story above, which cause and effect relationship best describes the conflict in the story?


The ants don't like the grasshopper, so they took all its food.



The grasshopper has no food because he played all Summer and refused to work.



The ants are kind, due to the fact that they shared their food with the grasshopper.



The Summer was rough, so nobody has food for Winter.


This story talks a lot about working hard. Based off the connotations and tone of the story, the author thinks that hard work should be seen as...


something to be avoided in favor of fun activities



something that is important and should be a priority



something overachievers do, and not for everyone



a way of getting others to like you and depend on you


Which of the following sentences is correct?


The ants, unlike the grasshopper, spends the summer working.



The ants, unlike the grasshopper, spending the summer working.



The ants, unlike the grasshopper, spend the summer working.



The ant, unlike the grasshoppers, spend the summer working.


Which would be an appropriate thesis statement for an essay on why the grasshopper should work hard like the ants?


In the ant and the grasshopper, the ants are right to spend the Summer working in order to survive the Winter.



I think the grasshopper needs to work harder so the ants don't have to help him.



Working hard is important because if you don't then you won't do well in life.



The story is about grasshoppers who just play while the ants work, then the grasshoppers don't have food.