Question 32 (Essay Worth 10 points)
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The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells [1898]
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be
inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the
World?…And how are all things made for man?—
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

In three to five complete sentences, explain why the inhabitants of Mars are interested in Earth. Use information from the text to support your answer.

Answer:

complete sentences describe with the humans on Earth knew about the inhabitants of Mars

Explanation:

Many humans on Earth assumed that living creatures on Mars are more or less secondary to them. They considered that these beings are in the equivalent level of the lemurs and animals existing on Earth. Man on earth did not understand that these beings might be more knowledgeable than man, thinking they live in a region where it is much cooler and has less nature contrasted to earth. The passage highlighted that the contest in Mars is bigger contrasted to the effort of man on earth.

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Della wants to buy a gift for her husband that is "fine and rare and sterling." In this context, which of the multiple meanings of sterling applies?

A. of superior quality
B. payable in British money
C. strengthened silver
D. a wealthy heiress

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An explanation of the format, organization, and structure of a problem and solution text.

Help ASAP with this please

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The trouble with homework

can someone help with these

Why are steam engines important

My mom said I was a couch potato after realizing I'd
slept there and was in PJs all day.
O Oxymoron
O Metaphor
O Simile
O Idiom
Identify the figurative language!!

Which of the following lines contains onomatopoeia?

He ran to the kitchen

She slept through dinner

Her heels clacked on the floor

He dropped the napkin

When Justine is arrested, what does the priest threaten her with?

Which are the three required parts of a text ad?

D) According to the passage, what
could scientists learn about from
studying yawns?
D ways to listen to boring stories
D secrets to becoming a hero
Dreasons why we get sleepy
cures for serious illnesses

Shakespeare in pop culture: pop culture is what we refer to as the cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people. pop culture can be films, television, music, artwork, video games, etc. Shakespeare frequently appears in pop culture. your task is to find a minimum of [3] pop culture references to Shakespeare to discuss in class. use this sheet to record your findings, and please feel free to think outside the box (the discussion will be much more interesting if we come in with different examples).

what literary elements where used in the introduction, act 1 and act 2 of The Taming of the Shrew

Read this line from stanza 9.

The world no longer let me love

The author most likely included this sentence to show that she -
A- is trying to protect herself
emotionally from loss
B- has rejected the value of
earthly things
C-is asking others to help her
through this
D-has realized she must leave
her old home behind

Carina loved running, and she loved winning too. She was the captain and star athlete of her track and field team. Although Carina wasn’t an excellent runner when she first joined the team two years earlier, she practiced all the time and soon began to win almost every race in which she competed. Carina was doing so well that she thought she might become the winningest track and field athlete in her school’s history!

2One afternoon at track practice, Coach Winder nabbed everyone’s attention to introduce a new athlete. “This is Roberto," he said. "He just transferred to our school from Greensboro Middle School. Please welcome Roberto to the team!”

3The members of the team clapped and jostled each other as they tried to shake Roberto’s hand. As the team captain, Carina shook Roberto’s hand first. She introduced herself and told Roberto that she was excited to have another team member. Roberto told Carina that he had been reluctant about joining the team, but Carina assured him that he would have a marvelous time.

4The next day, the members of the track team stretched before running some sprints. Carina told Roberto that he could race with her. “Don’t worry,” she said. “I’ll go easy on you because it’s your first practice.”

5Carina and Roberto lined up at the starting blocks. When they heard the CRACK of the starting pistol, Roberto and Carina started. After a short distance, Carina realized that Roberto was no longer beside her. She turned to see how far behind he had fallen, but to her amazement, Roberto was not behind her. She looked up and saw Roberto surging ahead. His feet moved as fast as lightning! When Carina realized that she was about to lose, she ran as vigorously as she could; however, it wasn’t enough. Roberto triumphed. Carina seemed almost paralyzed with shock, but she managed to smile and congratulate him.

6Over the next few weeks, Roberto became a phenomenon on the track. No matter how hard Carina trained, she could never beat Roberto.

7One evening after a track meet, Carina was desolate. Roberto had won first place, and Carina had come in third! She considered hanging up her running shoes and quitting the team. Just as she was about to call Coach Winder, her father entered the living room. Carina explained her situation to him.

8“If winning is so important to you that you can’t merely have fun being a member of the team,” said Carina’s father, “then I guess quitting is your only option. But, before you make your decision, think about why you originally joined the team.”

9The next day, Carina walked into Coach Winder’s office and handed him a slip of paper. Coach Winder’s eyes widened as he read it. Then, he closed the note and shook his head approvingly.

11“That’s right,” Carina said with a smile, “I’d like Roberto to serve as co-captain of the team.”

What is a THEME for this story?

A) Having fun is more important than winning.

B) When someone does better than you, practice more so you can beat them.

C) Never settle for second place.

D) If someone is better than you at something, you should just quit.​

Which detail from the passage best explains why Susan B. Anthony claimed that bicycling helped free women?
O 1. Bicycling allowed women to enjoy the fresh air,
2. Bicycling was popular with both men and women,
O 3. Women no longer had to depend on men for transportation,
04. Women bicycle riders became a common sight on the roads,

Who is the main character in the story of the Miller his son and the donkey

Use correlative conjunctions to combine the two sentences.
The puppy cannot sit for very long.
The puppy cannot stay for very long.

For each of the scenarios below, describe what the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), unconditioned response (UCR), the conditioned stimulus (CS), and conditioned response (CR) are.
1.) Opening a can of pet food with a can opener leads your pet to start jumping around.
2.) Smelling a perfume you wore during a great party makes you smile and feel good.
3.) Walking by the gym where you hurt yourself working out makes you wince.
4.) You cringe when you pass the intersection where you nearly had a car accident.
5.) A song reminds you of a former friend or romantic partner.

If a paragraph does not explicitly state its thesis, but rather suggests an overarching point, it may be advancing an

open thesis statement
closed thesis statement
topic sentence
implied main idea
open or closed thesis statement

WHY ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUR ACTIONS?

Question
What is the most important idea in this section of the passage

There is a big ________ that i will make it to the top.​

He was studying ( Make a question)

any 3 uses of honey
​

monkeys adore banana in passive voice

Enjoy the _____ of a warm fire

Which theme is not explored in Sonnet 55?

Time
War
Immortality
Marriage

Which phrase is an example of an oxymoron in this passage?
Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health
Still-waking sleep that is not what it is!
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Act I, Scene i, lines 180-186.
O A. sleep that is not what it is
O B. Here's much to do with hate
O C. cold fire
O D. well-seeming forms