Would you eat one of the world’s most poisonous creatures?

The blowfish, known in Japan as fugu, is one of the deadliest fish in the sea. Its organs are filled with tetrodotoxin, a poison that affects the muscles in the body. Tetrodotoxin is so lethal that an amount the size of a pinhead can kill a human being. Each fugu contains enough poison to kill 30 people. Victims who eat tetrodotoxin will feel the effects within half an hour. First, their mouths will begin to tingle. Then, they will experience sweating, headaches, nausea, and uncontrollable shaking. Finally, if they do not receive treatment, they will stop breathing and die.

It is difficult to believe that an animal this dangerous is also a popular food item in Japan and a few other East Asian countries. Japanese people eat nearly 10,000 tons of fugu each year. Fugu can be found on the menus of many Japanese restaurants. Fugu is most often served raw in a dish called sashimi, but it is also eaten baked, fried, stewed, or as part of a salad.

No matter how fugu is served, it has to be prepared very carefully so that it is no longer poisonous. According to Japanese law, fugu can only be served by licensed chefs. Chefs who want to serve fugu must first receive two to three years of difficult training. After the training, the chefs take a test to prove that they are able to correctly prepare the fish. Only 35% of the people who take the test actually pass it.

To prepare fugu correctly, chefs have to separate the poisonous organs from the rest of the meat. Fugu chefs slice the fish with a special knife called a fugu hiki that is stored separately from other knives. Accidentally cutting the organs during this process will cause the poison to spread to the rest of the fish. After the chefs have removed the poisonous parts, they are sealed in a bag and stored in a locked box. The fugu parts are then taken to a special location where they are destroyed.

So what does fugu taste like? Some have said that it is the most delicious food they have ever eaten; others say that it is tasteless and somewhat chewy. Since there are so many different opinions, the only way you can know for sure is to eat some yourself—if you dare!

The passage begins with a rhetorical question. Based on the way it is used in the passage, a rhetorical question is most likely something that

A. is asked just to make a point or gain a reader’s interest; the author does not expect the audience will actually answer it
B. is asked to confuse readers or make them think; no one can possibly answer it
C. the author answers him or herself in the passage; it is used to deliver information to the audience
D. the audience never finds out the answer to; the author uses it to create a mystery for the readers to solve on their own

A. is asked just to make a point or gain a reader’s interest; the author does not expect the audience will actually answer it

A square and a circle sat down one day and each of them had a lot to say. The square sald, "I have four sides, all straight and true. I make buildings and boxes and cages at zoos, Which don't let the wild animals ever escape. I must be the most useful shape." The circle sald, "I have no beginning, and I have no end, My one side is one perpetual bend. I make marbles and bubbles and a target's bulls-eye Surely there's no shape lovelier than I." With which statement would the author most likely agree? 1. Squares are more common than circles in the real world. 02. Circles are seen in nature more than squares. O 3. Squares and circles are the most important shapes of all. 4. Circles and squares are both interesting and common.​

Which group in nineteenth-century America would likely be the most receptive audience for "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” A) clergy B) dock workers C) slave holders D) abolitionists

Do you feel sympathy for James in The Giant's House? Explain.​

PLEASE HELP!!!!
Select the correct text in the passage. Which part of the story contains the rising action of the plot? The Old Man and His Grandson by the Brothers Grimm There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the table with his eyes full of tears. Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke. The young wife scolded him, but he said nothing and only sighed. Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few hall- pence, out of which he had to eat. They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four years old began to gather together some blts of wood upon the ground. What are you doing there?" asked the father. "I am making a little trough," answered the child, "for father and mother to eat out of when I am big." The man and his wife looked at each other for a while, and presently began to cry. Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything,​

Select the Noun(s)
Owen Hunt can see Mars from here.

What happens to grandpa and Martin at the end of the story?

“What was World War I?” is not an ideal research question because:

it’s not relevant to the topic.

it’s too difficult to answer.

it’s not specific enough.

there aren’t too many sources on this topic.

1.
She ......... come to your birthday party on Saturday but it depends our her parents.
1. may. or 2. will able to come.

2.
My mother bought this for me in the _____ at the airport.
1. shop. 2. desk. 3
board. 4. duty free shop.
3.
Take your warm hat and coat with you. It _____ snow in the mountains, you never know.
1. may. 2. will. 3. won't. 4. will be able to.
4.
I'm sure people _____ travel to other planets in the Next 20 years. 1. might. 2. will be able to.
5. When it is time to board the plane, you need to go through______. 1. gate. 2. arrivals gate. 3. departure gate. 4. boarding.

6.
A lot of people were waiting to go through ______.
1. gate. 2. control. 3 passport control.
7.
I _____ have another pen. Let me check in my bag.
1. will. 2. will be able to have. 3. won't. 4. might.
8.
I ____ to take my driving test next year.
1. can. 2. will be able.



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Help me Pleases!!!!:
excerpt from “Solitude” by Henry David Thoreau This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself. As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me. The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whippoorwill is borne on the rippling wind from over the water. Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface. Though it is now dark, the wind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes. The repose is never complete. The wildest animals do not repose, but seek their prey now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the fields and woods without fear. They are Nature’s watchmen, —links which connect the days of animated life. . . .

Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves. . . . Men frequently say to me, “I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially.” I am tempted to reply to such,—This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. Read this excerpt from “Solitude” by Henry David Thoreau. The wildest animals do not repose, but seek their prey now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the fields and woods without fear. They are Nature’s watchmen —links which connect the days of animated life. How does Thoreau distinguish the natural world, perhaps in contrast to the human world?

He describes the organized structure of the forest world.

He characterizes nature by its lack of reservation.

He describes the manner by which the forest sustains life.

He characterizes nature by its constant alertness and activity.

what is the individual's relationship to his/her cultural heritage?

List some reasons why Greaser might have their name written in the newspaper​

1. What brought freedom for the slaves besides the Union winning the Civil War?​

Are friends more important to you now than they were in elementary school? Why? (In paragraph)

Which of the following character traits is most likely asociated with the archetypal mother figure?​

A. a character who is exposed to the evil in the world
B. a character who assists or God's they here in his quest.
C. a character who guides and directs a child.
D. a character whose task is to protect the main character.

Identify the boldfaced portion as either an independent clause (IC), a dependent clause (DC), a relative clause (RC), or a phrase (P).

Please help assap this is a quiz also marking brainliest!!!
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.

Reaching the gate, Odysseus and the forester
halted and stood outside, for harp notes came
around them rippling on the air
as Phemios picked out a song. Odysseus
caught his companion's arm and said:
"My friend,
here is the beautiful place—who could mistake it?”



In this excerpt, the harp’s music is a symbol of Odysseus’s


patience and endurance.

long journey back home.

reunion with old colleagues.

happiness upon returning home.

In the kite runner what does the lamb symbol represent.

Why do you think Jeremy takes such a strong interest in the lemon seeds?

write a sentence using "fairness", then write a sentence using "character" *EXTRA POINTS

PLEASE ANSWER IN A PARAGRAPH.

1.) In about a paragraph, tell me your opinion on whether or not zoos should be banned. Give 3 reasons on why you picked where they should or shouldn’t.

thank your lucky _____

cliché please

Which of the following choices most closely describes how the women in the crowd feel about Hester's punishment?
A Her punishment was not harsh enough
B. She should have been put to death for her actions.
C. Having to live with her shame is enough of a punishment.
D. er punishment
was appropriate for her crime. Can someone help me out please!!!!!!!!

PRACTICE
Match each term with its definition. Use a dictionary if you need help.
Then choose the term that also has a meaning not related to astronomy and
write a definition for it.
1. apogee
2. equinox
3. diurnal
4. perigee
5. eccentric
a. two dates each year when day and night are of equal length
b. having a noncircular planetary orbits such as Earth's
c. point when the moon is farthest from Earth
d. relating to the daily rotation of Earth
e. point when the moon is closest to Earth

“No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.”

Read the quote by John F. Kennedy in the Prepare phase of the lesson.
What phrase would best describe the intellectual quality that Kennedy is describing in this passage?

A.Computer code

B.Globalization

C.Critical thinking

D.Pedagogy

Which of the following climate conditions would best support a tropical rain forest ecosystem? A. dry air and cold temperatures B. dry air and hot temperatures C. moist air and cold temperatures D. moist air and hot temperatures

can someone tell me if this is a good hook or just stupid "It is no secret that video games are transforming our lives, a study proves that video games are known to help kids with ADHD and dyslexia." I feel like ""It is no secret" is kinda dumb and i should leave it out. thoughtss?

the wifes story number 7 answer reread lines 88-100

Read the paragraph. Find the sentence that contains an incorrect shift in tense. (1) The blizzard swept into the mountain town of Presley unexpectedly one November morning. (2) People were shocked to see their houses, streets, and cars overflowing with snow. (3) No one warns them of the upcoming storm, and no one prepares them for the amount of snow they got. (4) The citizens of Presley put on brave faces and endured many more days of snow. (5) After all, they had been through many storms before. A. sentence 3 B. sentence 2 C. sentence 1 D. sentence 4

What color do formatting changes appear

Capacity for learning; natural ability