2.
A Good Day for a Bad Decision
Have you ever noticed that some people always seem to make the right choices? They may be the person who always picks the right pitch to swing at, or the one who always picks the pair of shoes that quickly become a popular fad. On the other hand, some people never seem to make a good decision. They may be the kids who ride a bike down a steep hill and crash into a bush or the ones who step to the edge of a sidewalk in time to get splashed by a car. How do some always seem to be living the good life while others seem doomed to misery? Is this just a matter of luck?
While luck probably has something do with it, the better explanation may be that the two groups have differences in the development of their brains. You see, most adult humans use their cerebral cortex to make decisions. The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain in the front of your head that deals with how you perceive the world and respond appropriately. It also helps you control your impulses. This part of the brain is still growing and developing connections well into your adult years. So for young adults and teenagers, the decision-making center of the brain is not completely formed yet.
At the same time, the teenage brain is also experiencing growth in another part of the brain—the amygdala (a-mig-dala). This part of the brain is responsible for emotions. Specifically, the amygdala talks to other parts of the brain about events related to rewards and fear.
In essence, our emotional brains are having growing spurts and our impulses are out of control at the same time our cerebral cortexes are not finished growing. We simply don't have the tools to control those emotions and impulses. As a result, teenagers feel overly emotional and wishy-washy when it comes to decisions. This development cycle is one reason society doesn't consider children to be adults until after they are 18. Biologically, the teenage brain is not generally ready for adult decisions.
So the differences between those who seem to make good decisions and those who seem to make bad ones may be fewer than you think. In fact, if you study the people you think make only good decisions, you will likely find they also make some catastrophically bad ones as well. A person's ability to make a good decision increases with age and experience though we all develop at different rates. While you are young, you may want to take advantage of those around you with bigger cerebral cortexes: adults. Their advice may be just what is needed to counter your amygdala.
Which line from the text best states the main idea of the text? (1 point)

Specifically, the amygdala talks to other parts of the brain about events related to rewards and fear.


As a result, teenagers feel overly emotional and wishy-washy when it comes to decisions.


A person's ability to make a good decision increases with age and experience though we all develop at different rates.


While you are young, you may want to take advantage of those around you with bigger cerebral cortexes.

Answer:

C). A person's ability to make a good decision increases with age and experience though we all develop at different rates.

Explanation:

The third option i.e. 'a person's ability...rates' most aptly conveys the central idea of the given text. It displays how an individual's decision-making ability enhances as their age develops and as they gain experience in their life. This helps them in gaining the maturity to make correct choices in their life using their cerebral cortex which allows them to perceive the world better. Thus, option C is the correct answer.

Answer:

the person above me is correct just took the test it is C

Explanation:

Which idea most resembles a theme? A. love B. Inspiration comes in many forms. C. The main character discovers his dreams. D. Don’t give up.
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14. Lines 319–338: Explain the contrast between Anne's actions in the past and her
new expectations for herself.
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How do they celebrate Valentine's Day in other parts of the world? Name at least 5 countries in the world.

your opinion on teenage brain
write a ONE PARAGRAPH choose one questions

4. Why is it important for us to understand the difference between teenage brains and fully developed adult brains?


5. If our brains don't finish developing until we're 25, should we not be considered adults until we're 25? Is that when we should be allowed to vote and be drafted?

Learning Task 6: Read the poem carefully. Then, answer the questions that
follow. Do this in your notebook
If We Must Die
Hy Claude McKay (1889-1948)
If we must die, let it not be like hops
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Malding their mock at our accursed lot
If we must die, o let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we dely
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
0 kinsmen! we must meet the common foc!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting backt
Questions:
HAECURED
1. What do the first four les establis
2. What message does the persons forward to his all
3. How does the persona describe his enemies?
4. According to the poet, how can one die nobly?
5. Using the Venn diagram below, compare and contrast the specific
messages and/or values presented in the poem and in the anide in
Learning Task 5
It We Must Die
Health workers speak
to UNICEF about their
struggles​

Select the sentence that shows a pronoun subject complement.

This is we.
This is who we are.

B. Think of any English song that has Simile and Metaphor. Write the lyrics on the space
provided below and underline the examples found in your song.(10 points.)
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Which situation gives an example of intrinsic motivation?
A. A student writes an essay to win a free trip.
B. A student writes an essay to explain his feelings.
C. A student writes an essay to get a scholarship.
D. A student writes an essay to receive prize money.

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2. Interpret What might keep the cat from returning home? What might the
image of a "constellation of fireflies flickering" represent to the speaker?

Which one of these details does NOT help you figure out the theme?
Theme: If you don't act now, the beauty of nature might disappear.

1. could you have done anything about it

2. when the last Iceberg melts thin

3. almost touching, tip to tip

4. the last tree is buried, broken and chipped ​

In the word “incredible,” “-ible” is a
and “in-” is a
.

Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen. When I was twelve years old and Barton, my older brother, was around fifteen, we took over the family basement. At first, I made a darkroom for developing pictures, and Bart was using it as his lab where he was raising about one hundred white rats, removing their thymus glands, and trying to figure out the glands' dysfunction. He wanted pictures taken of his experiment, doing the surgery on rats, and since I already had a darkroom, I took the pictures, though somewhat reluctantly. I didn't like the blood. Which part of the excerpt expresses an opinion? we took over . . . I made a darkroom for developing pictures . . . he was raising about one hundred white rats . . . I didn't like the blood.

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Mrs.Morel was alone, but she was used to it. Her son and her little girl slept upstairs; so, it seemed, her home was there behind her, fixed and stable. But she felt wretched with the coming child. The world seemed a dreary place, where nothing else would happen for her- at least until william grew up. But for herself, nothing but his dreary endurance- till the children grew up. And the children! She could not afford to have this third. She did not want it... She despised (her husband), and was tied to him. This coming child was too much for her. If it were not for William and Annie, she was sick of it, the struggle with poverty and ugliness and meanness.

What aspect of this excerpt most clearly marks it as a work of Modernism?
A. The main character is resisting a traditional family ideal.
B. There is a sense that the main character has no control over her life
C. The main character jumps back and forth between two topics.
D. There is a sense that sources of joy and become sources of tension

WORTH 30 POINTS
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Which option uses an intensive pronoun to complete the sentence?
My science class
A. turned out to be pretty enjoyable once I started doing experiments
myself
B. is taught by Mr Buckingham, who used to have a job creating
special effects for movies
C. is harder than math but not as hard as Latin
D. is at 7:30 in the morning, and I'm usually too tired to pay attention
to what's going on
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In the beginning of scene 3, the Porter pretends to let people who have done wrong things for personal gain into the gates of "hell". What is the purpose of the porter in Act 2?

describe the picture's setting

Would you want to live under a government based on tyranny?

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!
Read the following sentence from the Introduction (paragraphs 1-5). Which answer choice uses the word "mature" in the SAME way as the sentence: It doesn't mature until around age 25.

A) His comments in the meeting showed he was less than mature,

B) This program is intended for mature audiences only,

C) Most apple trees will mature in six to 10 years.

D) The mature thing to do would be to return the wallet.

Imagine that your friend does not know how to make inferences. How would you explain to them the steps to create good inferences?

For all the years I knew my grandma, she could barely see. Grandma was legally blind, and yet she knew, by feel, the location of every dish in her kitchen and every work of literature on the bookcase in the living room. I remember especially the bird-like way she peered at things. I'd bring her a copy of my latest school picture, and she'd hold the photo an inch or two from her face, tilt her head to one side, and inspect it before saying, "Very pretty." I used to think she was just being polite, that she really couldn't see me in the picture. But then she'd add, "That pin you're wearing was your mother's." How did she see that little blur on my jacket? The things she could see never failed to amaze me. Watching television with Grandma, I never failed to learn something. Usually it was the complicated plot twist of one of her favorite soap operas—The Guiding Light or As the World Turns. We grandkids would curl up on the big couch while Grandma pulled up a footstool and planted herself right next to the TV, elbows on her knees, to watch the screen. At the commercial break, she'd explain who was marrying whom and who was in the hospital and who had recently come back from the dead. She seemed to have no trouble identifying the characters whom she could barely see. Whether or not she could bring them into sharp focus, they were as real to her as her giggling grandkids. For a treat, we'd sometimes pile into our grandparent's black car for a drive around town: my grandfather at the wheel, my long-legged older brother in the front seat, and Grandma sandwiched between me and my little brother in the back—but sitting so far forward she was practically in the front. I'd imagined all she could see was a blur of images rushing past, yet she could always tell when Grandpa had missed a turn or forgotten to turn on his headlights. Returning home, Grandma would wave at the boy who mowed their lawn and point out the new fruit on the plum tree in their yard. In later years, when I visited from college, Grand

100 points pls answer quick if possible Read the excerpt below and answer the question that follows.

Mrs. Frank ( to ANNE, in her room). Hush, darling, hush. It's all right. It's all right. ( Over her shoulder, to DUSSEL) Will you be kind enough to turn on the light, Mr. Dussel? ( Back to ANNE) It's nothing, my darling. It was just a dream.
(Act I, Scene 4)
What is the meaning of the word kind, as it is used in this passage?

an essential quality of character
a group of things that belong together
of a sympathetic or helpful nature
used to make a formal request

Read each sentence below. Write what you think might be an effect on the second line.

Cause: it snowed last night.

Effect: ___________​

I would like my answer double-checked. I think it should be restructured like this:

Flying over the forest, we saw three fires.

I think the answer is misplaced. In addition, it cannot be dangling because we know who is flying.

In lines 15 to 21, the narrator's views are conveyed by a tone that is

“A Blessing”
By James Wright
1 Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
5 They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
10 That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
15 I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
20 And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl’s wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.


Select one:

wishful

passionate

lethargic

haughty

From the author's description of serial novels, you can infer that the author
a. never reads novels
b. dislikes serial novels
c. enjoys serial novels
d. teaches creative writing
e. is a novelist or playwright

Does anyone know what RP is-

write a paragraph based on this topic sentence... “the environment elephants live in can affect the way they communicate with their herds”

Help me please!eee!!