From the Encyclopedia Britannica biography:
Benjamin Solomon Carson was born on Sept. 18, 1951, in Detroit, Mich. His parents divorced when he was eight, and he lived with his mother and brother first in Boston and then back in Detroit. He was a poor academic student in elementary school until his mother began to limit his television watching and had him read two books a week and write book reports.
In 2008, Pres. George W. Bush awarded Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2009 a movie about Carson's life, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story premiered on television. Carson was the author of an autobiography, Gifted Hands (1990), written with Cecil Murphey, as well as several motivational books.
In 1983 Carson moved to Perth, Australia, to work as a chief neurosurgery resident at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. After a year spent gaining experience, he returned to Johns Hopkins, where he was named director of pediatric neurosurgery. There he earned a reputation for dealing with difficult cases using advanced surgical methods. In 1985 he performed his first successful hemispherectomy, a procedure that removes part of the brain in order to control chronic seizures. He also became known for his work separating conjoined twins, in 1987 completing the first successful separation of craniopagus twins (joined at the head).
From the Academy of Achievement autobiographical interview:
We had to stay in the house and read these books and our friends were outside and they were playing and they knew we couldn't come out. It seems like they would be making just that much more noise to torment us. But, I hated it for the first several weeks, but then all of a sudden, I started to enjoy it because we had no money, but between the covers of those books, I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything. And, I began to learn how to use my imagination more because it doesn't really require a lot of imagination to watch television, but it does to read. You've got to take those letters and make them into words, and those words into sentences, and those sentences into concepts, and the more you do that, the more vivid your imagination becomes. And, I believe that's probably one of the reasons that you see that creative people tend to be readers, because they're exercising their mind.
I was reading about people in laboratories, pouring chemicals from a beaker into a flask and watching the steam rise, and completing electrical circuits, and discovering galaxies, and looking at microcosms in the microscope, and I just acquired so much knowledge, and I had put myself into those settings and I saw myself differently than everybody else in my environment who just wanted to get out of school so they could get some cool clothes and a cool car. And, I was looking down the pike and seeing myself as a scientist or a physician or something of that nature, and that was one of the things that sort of carried me through much of the ridicule and some of the hardships that a person would have to go through coming from my environment and going to medical school.
The thing that I am probably the most proud of is not all the medical accomplishments or honorary degrees or various boards and societies. I'm most proud of the 100,000-plus letters that I have from young people, throughout America and around the world, whose lives have been changed by reading one of my books, or seeing me on television, or an interview in a magazine, and recognizing that they have the ability to define their own lives. If that's the legacy that I leave, I'll be very happy.
I was talking to a friend of mine, who was a cardiothoracic surgeon, who was the chief of the division, and I said, "You guys operate on the heart in babies, how do you keep them from exsanguinating" and he says, "Well, we put them in hypothermic arrest." I said, "Is there any reason that -- if we were doing a set of Siamese twins that were joined at the head -- that we couldn't put them into hypothermic arrest, at the appropriate time, when we're likely to lose a lot of blood?" and he said, "No." I said, "Wow, this is great." Then I said, "Why am I putting my time into this? I'm not going to see any Siamese twins." So I kind of forgot about it, and lo and behold, two months later, along came these doctors from Germany, presenting this case of Siamese twins. And, I was asked for my opinion, and I then began to explain the techniques that should be used, and how we would incorporate hypothermic arrest, and everybody said "Wow! That sounds like it might work." And, my colleagues and I, a few of us went over to Germany. We looked at the twins. We actually put in scalp expanders, and five months later we brought them over and did the operation, and lo and behold, it worked.

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How does Shakespeare use figurative language to develop the character of Cassius?

How did the introduction of the "Age of Science" change the production of sugar?

From the common lit YOUNG ATLANTA ARTIST ON THE RISE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

What is the central idea of the article?
A. Social Media will better help you develop a career in arts than attending college.
B. People have to be brave and need to take a chance on themselves if they want to be successful in music.
C. People cannot rely on social media to connect them with other artists because sometimes collaborations don’t work out.
D. Social Media can be a useful tool to help people promote their artistic careers and connect with other artists around the world.

What is the main effect of the conflict between the Montague’s and Capulet’s in the beginning of Act 1? *
to reveal that the servants are also involved in the feud
to expose the conflict between the two feuding families
to show the similarities between Lady Montague and Lady Capulet
to expose Shakespeare’s view of women as the weaker sex

A review is a type of Persuasive Writing.
True
False

Who is Malcolm X mistaken for multiple times while in Mecca

Which attributes of anecdotes make them a good source of support in a reflective essay? (Select all correct answers.)

ANSWERS:

1: meaningful

2: insightful

3: general

4: persuasive

You can select more than one answer! Thanks so much!

Read the Greek myth "Midas" retold by Thomas Bulfinch and answer the question.

[1] Bacchus, on a certain occasion, found his old schoolmaster and foster-father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and in that state wandered away, and was found by some peasants, who carried him to their king, Midas. Midas recognized him, and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with an unceasing round of jollity.

[2] On the eleventh day he brought Silenus back, and restored him in safety to his pupil. Whereupon Bacchus offered Midas his choice of a reward, whatever he might wish. He asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold. Bacchus consented, though sorry that he had not made a better choice.

[3] Midas went his way, rejoicing in his new-acquired power, which he hastened to put to the test. He could scarce believe his eyes when he found a twig of an oak, which he plucked from the branch, become gold in his hand. He took up a stone; it changed to gold. He touched a sod; it did the same. He took up an apple from the tree; you would have thought he had robbed the garden of the Hesperides. His joy knew no bounds, and as soon as he got home, he ordered the servants to set a splendid repast on the table. Then he found to his dismay that whether he touched bread, it hardened in his hand; or put a morsel to his lip, it defied his teeth. He took a glass of wine, but it flowed down his throat like melted gold.

[4] In consternation at the unprecedented affliction, he strove to divest himself of his power; he hated the gift he had lately coveted. But all in vain; starvation seemed to await him. He raised his arms, all shining with gold, in prayer to Bacchus, begging to be delivered from his glittering destruction. Bacchus, merciful deity, heard and consented. "Go," said he, "to River Pactolus, trace its fountain-head, there plunge yourself and body in, and wash away your fault and its punishment." He did so, and scarce had he touched the waters before the gold-creating power passed into them, and the river sands became changed into gold, as they remain to this day.

Select a possible theme of the myth.

Gold is a symbol of wealth and authority in many cultures.
People who expect a reward for good deeds are selfish.
Money does not bring as much happiness as friendship.
Wishes are sometimes better when they don't come true.

10.
Which sentence is written in the active voice?


A. A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth was found frozen in ice by scientists.


B. Scientists found a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth frozen in ice.

Which quotation from the passage most clearly shows that the author thinks Mount Shasta is very impressive?
1. "is the single cone of an immense, extinct volcano"
2. "occupies the country east of Scott's Mountain"
3. "they are utterly inconspicuous under the shadow of the great peak"
4. "a grandeur equaled by hardly any American mountain"

What genre would The Crucible be considered?
A novel

A play

A written documentary

An epic poem

Greg spent $47.45 on five books. If each book costs the same amount, how much does one book cost?

Which one is grammatically correct?


"The horrendously cruel, built from the pits of hell, _____________________"


a). "roaring screams of its victims,"

b). "roaring screams of it's victim,"


(Context: This sentence is describing a torture tool called "The Iron Maiden.")

please help!! what is the social and historical context of Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge?

Examples of Slam poems

Read the line from the text.

Most people would agree that with its typically high fat and sugar content and delicious taste, chocolate is terribly good.

What effect does the author create by using the phrase terribly good? Select TWO options.
A.
The author makes chocolate seem appealing despite its high fat and sugar content.
B.
The author creates a sarcastic mood to coordinate with the mood of the rest of the text.
C.
The author creates a controversial mood on purpose to spur his reader to action against chocolate production and consumption.
D.
The author challenges the reader to think twice about chocolate and see it as an alternative to energy bars because of its energy–inducing sugar and fat.
E.
The author wants to create a positive mood about chocolate, as the point of the text is to persuade the reader to always choose chocolate as his or her snack of choice.
F.
The author wants the reader to delight in the fact that we eat chocolate and enjoy it even though it is not very healthy.

"Maybe people are younger when they are asleep" (p.92). What do you think about this comment?

imagine you were taking a trip to outer space. Describe what it's like and tell what kinds of things you do when you get there.
make up your own story .. and it's for reading but there is no reading..!​

If you are reviewing information for a test, which part of the chapter will help you best review information quickly? Chapter Title Headings Chapter Summary Subheadings

In the sentence below, the underlined portion is a clause. Identify the type of clause.
I can't go to the movies since I don't have any
money.
Independent clause
Dependent clause
Non essential clause
None of the choices

कहानी में बैली के माध्यम से कौन-कौन
नीति-विषयक मल्यउभर कर आए हैं?​

Doctor Pascal
by Emile Zola

In the heat of the glowing July afternoon, the room, with blinds carefully closed, was full of a great calm. From the three windows, through the cracks of the old wooden shutters, came only a few scattered sunbeams which, in the midst of the obscurity, made a soft brightness that bathed surrounding objects in a diffused and tender light. It was cool here in comparison with the overpowering heat that was felt outside, under the fierce rays of the sun that blazed upon the front of the house.

Standing before the press which faced the windows, Dr. Pascal was looking for a paper that he had come in search of. With doors wide open, this immense press of carved oak, adorned with strong and handsome mountings of metal, dating from the last century, displayed within its capacious depths an extraordinary collection of papers and manuscripts of all sorts, piled up in confusion and filling every shelf to overflowing. For more than thirty years the doctor had thrown into it every page he wrote, from brief notes to the complete texts of his great works on heredity. Thus it was that his searches here were not always easy. He rummaged patiently among the papers, and when he at last found the one he was looking for, he smiled.

For an instant longer he remained near the bookcase, reading the note by a golden sunbeam that came to him from the middle window. He himself, in this dawnlike light, appeared, with his snow-white hair and beard, strong and vigorous; although he was near sixty, his color was so fresh, his features were so finely cut, his eyes were still so clear, and he had so youthful an air that one might have taken him, in his close-fitting, maroon velvet jacket, for a young man with powdered hair.

Without the information provided by the second paragraph, the reader might draw which of these conclusions about Dr. Pascal? (5 points)


He is lingering over something written by his fianceé.
He is having an unpleasant memory from his childhood.
He is reading a necessary piece of advice from his doctor.
He is putting off going outside to perform an unpleasant task.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Proctor: I'd have you see some honesty in it. Let them, that never lied die now to keep their souls. It is
pretense for me, a vanity that will not blind God nor keep my children out of the wind.

What does John Proctor mean with this statement in his last conversation with Elizabeth?

A. He does not want to leave Elizabeth with the impression that he did anything wrong.

B. There are many that would die before they'd lie; however, because he has lied before, he can do it again if it means staying alive.

C. The lie isn't as terrible since he has lied to her before; it isn't as sinful to lie again.

D. He would like to see something honest come of it all, and it isn't as hard to tell a lie as others might think.

What were important events that happened in homeless bird that can reflect on Jonas?

The beginning of the story is: Things were so extravagant. So over the top. I’m amazed that we were able to pull it all off because things didn’t look too well before. But now look at us, happy, proud and....

PLEASE HURRY I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST IF CORRECT What characteristic is required for a statement to work as a claim?
A. A claim presents a series of facts in a logical and sequential order.
B. A claim compares or contrasts two opposing items or viewpoints.
C. A claim includes personal anecdotes the author uses to persuade the reader.
D. A claim must contain an argument that can be discussed and debated.

1.
a. Dramatic Irony
b. Imagery
c. Metaphor
d. Indirect Characterization
2.
e. Simile
3.
4.
"So when the blue smoke of brittle
leaves was in the air and the wind blew
the wet laundry stiff on the line
decided to go home."
"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of
the youth and mystery that wealth
imprisons and preserves, of the
freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy,
gleaming like silver, safe and proud
above the hot struggles of the poor."
"Her voice is full of money."
"They were carless people, Tom and
Daisy-- they smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into
their money of their vast carelessness
or whatever it was that kept them
together, and let other people clean up
the mess they made made..."
"Her expression was curiously familiar--
it was an expression I had often seen on
women's faces, but on Myrtle Wilson's
face it seemed purposeless and
inexplicable until I realized that her
eyes, wide with jealous terror, were
fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker,
whom she took to be his wife."
5.

What is the form of the word media?

I’m giving 10 points for this, The picture says red, the sun, a ring, a dog,winter

Part B

A How does the section "Supply-Side Strategies for Water Suppliers" contribute to the structure and organization identified in Part A?

B It explains how accounting for water and water loss control are methods to achieve sustainability.

C It debates whether water loss control or accounting for water is more effective to achieve efficiency.

D It describes how and when water meters were first used to measure water usage.

F It provides detailed instructions for using a water meter and locating where leaks are most likely to occur.