A few decades ago, many families had half a dozen or more children. Nowadays, more and more families are choosing to have only one or two children. Are smaller families better than larger ones? Why or why not? State your position and support it with specific reasons and examples.

Answer:

Well um smaller families are easier 4 parents cuz they can b lazyer and they can provide less & spend less money. Biggr famlyz are caotic and screemy cuz the lots of peopls and to o xcrazy vey much.

Explanation:

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The soldiers most likely know about the Highwayman returning to the inn because

Select all that apply.

The second and third levels of importance represented in Figure 2 are: _____.

Paragraph headings
Chapter subsections
Title
Chapters

A dash is most often used to do which of the following?
Select one:
mark the beginning of a quotation
indicate a sudden change in thought
begin a dramatic monologue
o о
set up a series of items in a list

How did Gutzon Borglum change
the original idea for Mount
Rushmore?

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Which states how the main text convinces readers that microbes help humans? It argues that more needs to be done to understand microbes. It compares microbes to fungi, protozoa, and viruses. It lists details about what scientists have learned about the benefits of microbes. It tells the story of how scientists have learned about microbes.

President Trump’s policy and President Elect Biden’s policy on Nuclear Energy. Is nuclear energy poised to be part of America’s future? Explain why or why not.

what is the effect of density on rocks?

Read the adapted excerpt from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
"But I should have mentioned that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro debul san (these words,
and the former, were afterwards repeated, and explained to me). Whereupon Immediately about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the
strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of
him that was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, whereof one was a
page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger, the other two stood one on each side, to support
him. He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity, and kindness."
Which choice provides the best objective summary of the excerpt?
A. The narrator is bound but an orator comes out and orders his ties to be cut. This orator seems to be the leader as he is dressed formally and has others to support him. All follow his commands.
B. The narrator, tied down, watches as a leader of the group orders his ties to be cut so that he can turn his head. This leader seems to issue threats but also shows kindness.
C. The narrator is very confused as he is tied and cannot move, the inhabitants are speaking a language he does not understand,
and now an orator is both threatening him and showing pity.
D. The narrator is tied down and cannot move until a leader orders his ties be cut. This leader, whom the narrator cannot understand, seems to show a variety of different moods.

the pros and cons of going to college. Would it benefit you or not?

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Dissect and analyze the allegory of the man overboard from: "A man overboard!
What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre ship has a path which it is
forced to pursue. It passes on.
The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the surface; he calls, he stretches
out his arms; he is not heard. The vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own
workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; his miserable head is but a speck
amid the immensity of the waves. He gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre
is that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He
was there but just now, he was one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had his
part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has taken place? He has slipped, he has
fallen; all is at an end.
He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees and crumbles. The billows, torn
and lashed by the wind, encompass him hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the
tongues of water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused openings half devour
him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown
vegetations seize him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is becoming an abyss,
that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the
cowardly ocean attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. It seems as
though all that water were hate.
Nevertheless, he struggles.
He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes an effort; he swims. He, his petty
strength all exhausted instantly, combats the inexhaustible.
Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of the horizon.
The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes and beholds only the
lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is
tortured by this madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond the limits of
the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region beyond.
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There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do
for him? They sing and fly and float, and he, he rattles in the death agony.
He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the
one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is exhausted; that ship, that distant
thing in which there were men, has vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he
stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous billows of the invisible; he shouts.
There are no more men. Where is God?
He shouts. Help! Help! He still shouts on.
Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven.
He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches the tempest;
the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.
Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of
those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of
the gloomy adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold paralyzes him. His
hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless
stars! What is to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the alternative of death; he
resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious
dreary depths of engulfment.
Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of souls on the way! Ocean into
which falls all that the law lets slip! Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death!
The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling their condemned. The sea is the
immensity of wretchedness.
The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall resuscitate it?"

What does the word idle mean in the sentence from The Hobbit?

Did you come here to ask me idle questions?

dangerous
unimportant
emotional
confusing

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Which sentence is written in first-person point of view?

Her friends cheered as she scored the winning goal.
My friends cheered as I scored the winning goal.
Rita's friends cheered as she scored the winning goal.
Your friends cheered as you scored the winning goal.

Which sentence is written in third-person point of view?

Once a small crowd of protesters, we were now an angry mob.
Our small crowd of protesters was now an angry mob.
The small crowd of protesters had turned into an angry mob.
Your small crowd of protesters has now become an angry mob.

I awoke to a thunderous sound in the middle of the night and sat up as straight as a board. I climbed slowly out of bed surrounded by a curtain of darkness. Usually, my nightlight would provide some sort of visual path for my eyes, but not this time. I stumbled as blind as a bat down the hall to my parent's room. I knocked my knuckles on their door and heard my dad's deep voice answer through the closed door. I told him about the sound I had heard and that my nightlight was not working. Opening the door, he said the electricity probably went out and that it would probably be back on in the morning. Because I was a scared rabbit, he let me climb into bed with him and Mom until morning. Tucked tightly under the covers between Mom and Dad, I felt as safe as a turtle hiding in its shell. Because I was a scared rabbit, he let me climb into bed with him and Mom. Based on the context, what does the sentence tell the reader about the dad? A. He probably has not slept much. B. He is a sympathetic person. C. He is also scared of the dark also. D. He enjoys helping small animals.

Alonso read the underlined metaphor in the following
passage from a narrative text:
“As the two friends crept across the grass, branches from
the low-hanging trees grabbed at their arms. The wind
sighed in the treetops, and high overhead, the moon was a
pale fingernail."
How should Alonso explain the impact of the metaphor on
the tone of the text?

vision of the future exposition

8. The author of "Nolan Bushnell" states that "It's very clear that game playing grows


dendrites. So people are smarter. The brain is something that if you exercise it you can be


smarter. It turns out that games are that exercise." because


he believes that gaming and technology can hinder the chao

do gender stereotypes still impact today's society?​

Read the following excerpt from the article "Volunteers Count Every Street Tree in New York City." As you read, think about which statements are opinions and which ones are facts.

Did you know? Over 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in cities or metropolitan areas, making urban trees more important than ever. Trees bring many benefits to human health--they filter air pollution, release oxygen, reduce mental stress, and absorb rainwater and noise. Trees in cities connect rural forests and parks to the urban landscape, creating habitat linkages for wildlife species like migratory birds. These are some of the many reasons the U.S. Forest Service supports trees in urban areas, and why the City of New York has been recruiting residents to count its trees for decades.

Which of these statements is an opinion?

a. "Trees in cities connect rural forests and parks to the urban landscape. . . ."
b. "[U]rban trees [are] more important than ever."
c. "Over 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in cities or metropolitan areas. . . ."
d. "Trees bring many benefits to human health. . . ."

Which revision is needed to correct the following sentence?
"The new student council officers will suggest easy fun activities at the short planning meeting."
A. Add a comma after the word easy.
B. Add a comma after the word new.
C. Add a comma after the word short.
D. Add a comma after the word council.​

The Latin prefix ad- means "toward," and the root jour comes from the French, meaning "day." The Latin suffix -ment turns a word into a noun, and has to do with an action or a process. Based on this knowledge of roots and affixes, write your definition of adjournment as it is used in the text, and tell how you got it. Use a dictionary to check its precise meaning.

Subject-verb agreement The students elected to lead our school beautification committee has several inspiring ideas including a mural in the gym and the relocation of the garbage cans from near the school entrance to behind the cafeteria

Select the correct answer.
Which statement about understanding the meaning of a poem is true?
A.
There is only one interpretation of a poem’s meaning.
B.
The meaning of a poem could be anything.
C.
It may take several readings to understand a poem’s meaning.
D.
A poem’s meaning becomes clear in the first reading.

Select the correctly punctuated sentence.

"I had hoped," Bill said, "that I could play Captain Courageous in the play."
"I had hoped, Bill said, that I could play Captain Courageous in the play."

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Easy Riddles
1. Riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it?


2. Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?


3. Riddle: What month of the year has 28 days?

4. Riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water?


5. Riddle: What question can you never answer yes to?


6. Riddle: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?


7. Riddle: There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?


8. Riddle. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?


9. Riddle: What goes up but never comes down?


10. Riddle: A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

11. Riddle: What gets wet while drying?


12. Riddle: What can you keep after giving to someone?


13. Riddle: I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?


14. Riddle: You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?


15. Riddle: You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?


16. Riddle: A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?


17. Riddle: I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

18. Riddle: What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?


19. Riddle: The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?


Riddles for Kids
20. Riddle: David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?

In this excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation, which phrase or sentence supports the claim that President Lincoln did not want the slaves to take up arms against their former masters?
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

the art of cave dwellers was crude and ____

Write an antonym for each of these comments made about a buffet dinner. Preposterous, Gigantic, Extravagant, Fetid, Superfluous, Colossal.​

in paragraphs 3, the word maxiumum means