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What is the main idea or central thesis of this article? What belief does Norton offer for the cause of the Salem Witchcraft Trials?
What specific evidence does Norton offer for her belief? To what extent do you agree/disagree with Norton’s central idea?
Explain why.
NYTimes They Called It Witchcraft
What belief does Norton offer for the cause of the Salem Witchcraft Trials?
What specific evidence does Norton offer for her belief?
To what extent do you agree/disagree with Norton’s central idea? Explain why.

Throughout the letter, King juxtaposes Opposites to highlight tension between what is and what should be. Focusing on two examples, what points does he raised? Also can you please proved textual evidence from the letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther.

Explain how Olaudah Equiano’s point of view, audience, and purpose impact the style and content of his book
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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song to celia is an example of a lyric poem. 1. what does the poet ask of Celia? why? 2. why did he send her a wreath? 3. what did she do to the wreath he gave? 4. does the large number of drinking references make the poem more or less romantic? is it even romantic at all? 5. how genuine are the speakers feelings? are there any clues that hint at how for real he is? 6. if someone wrote you this poem in a love letter would you laugh cry or feel deeply moved? maybe something else? 7. is love a necessity like food and shelter? explain your answer. 8. which is better to have a love and lost or to have never loved at all? explain your answer.
Song To Celia Ben Jonson Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove’s nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee As giving it a hope, that there It could not withered be. But thou thereon didst only breathe And sent’st it back to me; Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.

21 Select the correct text in the passage. A writer is using the following text to write a paper about men’s fashion: adapted excerpt from HOUSE Decoration by Oscar Wilde And how shall men dress? Men say that they do not particularly care how they dress. and this it is little matter. I am bound to reply that I agree: I can observe that you do not give much thought to your fashion. In all my journeys through the country. the only well-dressed men that I saw — and in saying this. I truthfully do mean to criticize the trendy men of Fifth Avenue — were the Western miners. Their wide-brimmed hats, which shaded their faces from the sun and protected them from the rain, and their cloaks, which are the most beautiful pieces of drapery ever invented, are worthy of being admired. Their high boots, too, were sensible and practical. They wore only what was comfortable and therefore beautiful. Which sentence in the writer’s paper should the writer revise to include an in-text citation? Men’s fashion isn’t discussed as often as women’s fashion is, but perhaps it should be. Most men wear simple outfits consisting of basic pants and shirts. However, there are actually many options available to men, despite the fact that they might not be familiar with certain historical and contemporary fashions. In fact, the nineteenth-century Western miners’ exquisite cloaks, large hats, and practical boots are excellent examples of high-quality men’s fashion.
16 excerpt from The Story-Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre Select the correct answer. Uncle Paul had just cut down a pear-tree in the garden. The tree was old, its trunk ravaged by worms, and for several years it had not borne any fruit. It was to be replaced by another. The children found their Uncle Paul seated on the trunk of the pear-tree. He was looking attentively at something. “One, two, three, four, five,” said he, tapping with his finger upon the cross-section of the felled tree. What was he counting?
O A. They suggest that the children will prefer the new pear tree to the old one.
O B. They explain why Uncle Paul gets a new axe every year.
O C. They convey the idea that the way trees mark the years is fascinating.
O D. They show why the wood of a pear tree is more difficult to cut than other types of wood.
“Come quick,” he called, “come; the pear-tree is waiting to tell you its story. It seems to have some curious things to tell you.” The children burst out laughing. “And what does the old pear-tree wish to tell us?” asked Jules. ‘Look here, at the cut which I was careful to make very clean with the ax. Don’t you see some rings in the wood, rings which begin around the marrow and keep getting larger and larger until they reach the bark?” “I see them,” Jules replied; “they are rings fitted one inside another.” “It looks a little like the circles that come just after throwing a stone into the water,” remarked Claire. ‘I see them too by looking closely,” chimed in Emile. “I must tell you,” continued Uncle Paul, “that those circles are called annual layers. Why annual, if you please? Because one is formed every year; one only, understand, neither more nor less. The learned who spend their lives studying plants, and who are called botanists, tell us that no doubt is possible on that point. From the moment the little tree springs from the seed to the time when the old tree dies, every year there is formed a ring, a layer of wood. This understood, let us count the layers of our pear-tree.” Uncle Paul took a pin to guide his counting: Emile, Jules, and Claire looked on attentively. One, two, three, four, five – They counted thus up to forty-five, from the marrow to the bark. “The trunk has forty-five layers of wood,” announced Uncle Paul. “Who can tell me what that signifies? How old is the pear-tree?” That is not very hard,” answered Jules, “after what you have just told us. As it makes one ring every year, and we have counted forty-five, the pear-tree must be forty-five years old.
11 Select all the correct answers. Imagine you are reading “What Is It That You Really Need?” as part of a research project and need to summarize the text. Which statements provide a correct objective summary of the passage?
O Maslow wrote two important books, Motivation and Personality and Toward a Psychology of Being.
O Humans can be confident and successful even if they are not eating and sleeping properly.
O Psychology is the branch of science that studies the mind and behavior.
O Maslow’s hierarchy of needs helps people understand themselves in a new way.
O Humans must attend to their basic needs before they are able to achieve higher level desires.
What Is It That You Really Need? Sometimes it seems as if we never get what we want. But sometimes when we do get what we want, we realize that it’s not what we really want. That’s because our wants don’t always match our needs. The solution to this problem is to try to understand and satisfy our real needs. Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and human and animal behavior. A lot of psychological research has been done about human needs and how they should be satisfied. Studies have shown that humans have basic needs that must be consistently met. Studies have also shown that there is an order of importance in which these needs must be satisfied. An individual’s basic functional needs must be satisfied before he or she can go on and meet other more creative and self-fulfilling needs. Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) was an important psychologist who became famous for his studies regarding human needs and wants. He wrote two major works, Motivation and Personality and Toward a Psychology of Being. Maslow stressed that basic needs must first be satisfied before a person is able to be creative or function independently. He created his

Love’s vocabulary : Diane Ackerman
1. Lines 138-145: Explain the simile in these lines. What comparison is made? What does it say about love?
2. Lines 143-145: Explain the tone of the description in these lines. What word choices create that tone?

The Great Gatsby Chapter 8 Questions
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Chapter 8
How does Fitzgerald achieve a melancholic mood in the beginning of this chapter?
How are seasons used in constructing this novel?
Who is Dan Cody and what is his significance in Gatsby’s life?
How does T. J. Eckleberg affect Mr. Wilson?

“The False Promise of Meritocracy,” by Marianne Cooper
At three points, Cooper poses questions to her reader before providing more information. Do you believe this is an effective strategy for engaging the reader? Why or Why not? Explain.

Suggested Time Allotment: 20 Advocacy Poster inutes Directions: 1. To promote respect for others and strengthen family relationship,
create an advocacy poster that upholds the value of respect for others and that helps strengthen your relationship with your family
and other significant people around you. Create your own title o slogan. 2. Use a clean sheet of paper and available drawing materials.

I need help determining the Ethos, Pathos, Logos for the following article as I need to write an Essay on how the writer uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Life isn’t fair – Deal with it
Mike Myatt, December, 2011
Mike Myatt is a bestselling author and a columnist. Commonly recognized as an authority on the subject of leadership, he believes that leadership “exists to disrupt mediocrity.”
There seems to be a lot of talk these days about what is fair, and what is not. President Obama seems to believe life should be fair – that “everybody should have a fair shake.” Some of the 99% seem to believe life has treated them unfairly, and some of the 1% percent feel life hasn’t treated them fairly enough. My questions are these: What is fair? Is life fair? Should life be fair? I’ll frame the debate, and you decide…
We clearly have no choice about how we come into this world, we have little choice early in life, but as we grow older choices abound. I have long believed that while we have no control over the beginning of our life, the overwhelming majority of us have the ability to influence the outcomes we attain. Fair is a state of mind, and most often, an unhealthy state of mind.
In business, in politics, and in life, most of us are beneficiaries of the outcomes we have contributed to. Our station in life cannot, or at least should not, be blamed on our parents, our teachers, our pastors, our government, or our society – it’s largely based on the choices we make, and the attitudes we adopt.
People have overcome poverty, drug addiction, incarceration, abuse, divorce, mental illness, victimization, and virtually every challenge known to man. Life is full of examples of the uneducated, the mentally and physically challenged, people born into war-torn impoverished backgrounds, who could have complained about life being unfair, but who instead chose a different path – they chose to overcome the odds and to leave the world better than they found it. Regardless of the challenges they faced, they had the character to choose contribution over complaint.
I don’t dispute that challenges exist. I don’t even dispute that many have an uphill battle due to the severity of the challenges they face. What I vehemently dispute is attempting to regulate, adjudicate, or legislate fairness somehow solves the world’s problems. Mandates don’t create fairness, but people’s desire and determination can work around or overcome most life challenges.
It doesn’t matter whether you are born with a silver spoon, plastic spoon, or no spoon at all. It’s not the circumstances by which you come into this world, but what you make of them once you arrive that matter. One of my clients came to this country from Africa in his late teens, barely spoke the language, drove a cab while working his way through college, and is now the President of a large technology services firm. Stories such as this are all around us – they are not miracles, nor are they the rare exception. They do however demonstrate blindness to the mindset of the fairness doctrine.
From a leadership perspective, it’s a leader’s obligation to do the right thing, regardless of whether or not it’s perceived as the fair thing. When leaders attempt to navigate the slippery slope of fairness, they will find themselves arbiter of public opinion and hostage to the politically correct. Fair isn’t a standard to be imposed unless a leader is attempting to impose mediocrity. Fair blends to a norm, and in doing so, it limits, inhibits, stifles, and restricts, all under the guise of balance and equality. I believe fair only exists as a rationalization or justification. The following 11 points came from a commencement speech widely attributed to Bill Gates entitled
Rules for Life.
While many dispute the source, whether it was proffered by Bill Gates or not, I tend to agree with the hypothesis:
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Here’s the thing – we all face challenges, and life treats us all unfairly. We all make regrettable choices, and we all suffer from things thrust upon us do to little if any fault of our own. When I suffered a debilitating stroke at an early age, I certainly asked myself “why did this happen to me?” I could have felt sorry for myself and became bitter, I could have thrown in the towel and quit on my family and myself – I didn’t. It took two years of gut-wrenching effort, but what I thought was a great injustice at the time changed my life for the better. Today, you couldn’t tell I ever had a stroke. The greatest adversity life can throw at you simply affords you an opportunity to make changes, improve, and get better.
By the title of today’s column you have no doubt surmised I believe life is not fair, nor do I believe we should attempt to socially or financially engineer it to be such. Fair is not an objective term – it is a matter of perspective filtered by a subjective assessment. My subjective assessment is that fair is an entitlement concept manufactured to appease those who somehow feel slighted. Life isn’t fair – #occupyreality
Thoughts?