Read this excerpt from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics.

The incentive scheme that rules sumo is intricate and extraordinarily powerful. Each wrestler maintains a ranking that affects every slice of life; how much money he makes, how large an entourage he carries, how much he gets to eat, sleep, and otherwise take advantage of his success. The sixty-six highest-ranked wrestlers in Japan, comprising the makuuchi and juryo divisions, make up the sumo elite. A wrestler near the top of this elite pyramid may earn millions and is treated like royalty. Any wrestler in the top forty earns at least $170,000 a year. The seventieth-ranked wrestler in Japan, meanwhile, earns only $15,000 a year. Life isn’t very sweet outside the elite. Low-ranked wrestlers must tend to their superiors, preparing their meals and cleaning their quarters and even soaping up their hardest-to-reach body parts. So ranking is everything.

A wrestler’s ranking is based on his performance in the elite tournaments that are held six times a year. Each wrestler has fifteen bouts per tournament, one per day over fifteen consecutive days. If he finishes the tournament with a winning record (eight victories or better), his ranking will rise. If he has a losing record, his ranking falls. If it falls far enough, he is booted from the elite rank entirely. The eighth victory in any tournament is therefore critical, the difference between promotion and demotion; it is roughly four times as valuable in the rankings as the typical victory.

Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best summarizes the incentive system that ranks sumo wrestlers?
The incentive system penalizes elite sumo wrestlers.
The incentive system rewards elite sumo wrestlers.
The incentive system treats all sumo wrestlers equally.
The incentive system treats all sumo wrestlers like royalty.

Answer: D: The incentive system treats all sumo wrestlers like royalty

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True or False: The only difference between parallelism and antithesis is that antithesis contains a contrast, or opposites, but both are balanced sentences. (No need to use a word from the word bank on this one--just type "true" or "false."

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What is the Victorian theme in the poem “Beautiful City” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

2. How does she feel about the situation she describes? What made you say
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Which of the following supporting details is a detail from personal experience? A. When I was at the park, saw people painting outside. B. Painting outside was popular in the 1800s. C. The artist Claude Monet painted outside, D. Claude Monet was a famous painter. SUBM​

which of this words are figurative language and give examples.
couplet
line
dialect
metaphor
diction
meter
end rhyme
personification
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repetition
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If you could be an action super hero for the day, who would you be and what would your special powers be?
You are to write a 1st person essay in the present tense form. Everything is happening now, not in the past.
You will write a 3 paragraph creative essay on the prompt. Make sure to respond to the questions in your essay.
Where do you come from? What is your name? How did you get the name?
What are your powers and how did you discover them?
Remember it's only for one day, so use the day wisely.

Describe his father's hands physically using details from the narrative

8. Which score usually wins a golf match?

a. Highest
b. Lowest
d. Furthest from par
c. Closest to par​

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How should sentence 8 be changed?
A Insert a comma after grass
B Change reminds to reminding
C Change playing to to play
D Change Soccer to soccer

Please read the short story "Sleeping" By Katharine Weber. Once you have finished, you will write your ideas down to continue the writing prompt avaliable at the end of the story.



“Sleeping”



By Katharine Weber



She would not have to change a diaper, they said. In fact, she would not have to do anything at all. Mrs. Winter said that Charles would not wake while she and Mr. Winter were out at the movies. He was a very sound sleeper, she said. No need to have a bottle for him or anything. Before the Winters left they said absolutely please not to look in on the sleeping baby because the door squeaked too loudly.



Harriet had never held a baby, except for one brief moment, when she was about six, when Mrs. Antler next door had surprisingly bestowed on her the tight little bundle that was their new baby, Andrea. Harriet had sat very still and her arms had begun to ache from the tension by the time Mrs. Antler took back her baby. Andy was now a plump seven-year-old, older than Harriet had been when she held her that day.



After two hours of reading all of the boring mail piled neatly on a desk in the bedroom and looking through a depressing wedding album filled with photographs of dressed-up people in desperate need of orthodonture (Harriet had just ended two years in braces and was very conscious of malocclusion issues) while flipping channels on their television, Harriet turned the knob on the baby's door very tentatively, but it seemed locked. She didn’t dare turn the knob with more pressure because what if she made a noise and woke him and he started to cry?



She stood outside the door and tried to hear the sound of a baby breathing but she couldn’t hear anything through the door but the sound of the occasional car that passed by on the street outside. She wondered what Charles looked like. She wasn’t even sure how old he was. Why had she agreed to baby-sit when Mr. Winter approached her at the swim club? She had never seen him before, and it was flattering that he took her for being capable, as if just being a girl her age automatically qualified her as a baby-sitter.

By the time the Winters came home, Harriet had eaten most of the M & M's in the glass bowl on their coffee table: first all the blue ones, then the red ones ,then all the green ones, and so on, leaving, in the end, only the yellow.

They gave her too much money and didn’t ask her about anything. Mrs. Winter seemed to be waiting for her to leave before checking on the baby. Mr. Winter drove her home in silence. When they reached her house he said, My wife. He hesitated, then he said, You understand, don't you? and Harriet answered Yes without looking at him or being sure what they were talking about although she did really know what he was telling her and then she got out of his car and watched him drive away.



Writing Prompt



You have just read “Sleeping” by Katharine Weber in which a young girl is asked to babysit a child that she will never see. In an essay, narrate what happens after Mr. Winter drops Harriet off at home. Be sure to use what you have learned about the setting, characters, and plot of the passage as you write your continuation.

Your writing will be scored based on the development of ideas, organization of writing, and language conventions of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

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What makes oxygen in the atmosphere

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examples of personification​

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The text evidence can be anything from the article, even if it
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What does this passage tell us most about Clover?

She is anxious.
She is timid.
She is protective.
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Where can a reader find most stories written by citizen journalists?

_______ could have jumped over this wall and borrowed your rake.

Choose the correct word to fill in the blank.
A.
Their
B.
Somebody
C.
Anything
D.
Somewhere

Who would most likely be interested in "designer" potatoes?

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What unique qualities for life are only found in the right proportion on Earth?
Group of answer choices

A/Solids, liquids, and gases

B Liquid water, a magnetosphere, and light energy

C Mass, gravity, and forces

D Days, months, and years

Which of the following statements represents the best way to go about using ideas from others' experiences?
A. Always use ideas from others' experiences before using ideas from your own experience to avoid bias.
B. It's fine to use transcripts from spoken interviews in your writing without giving credit to others for their ideas.
C. Never use others' ideas in your writing, no matter how general they may be.
D. Use others' general points, but if you include specific evidence, make sure to show where you found it

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• Rewrite the sentences, using must/have to/ should/ ought...
1) I think it's a bad idea to play
computer games for hours.
You shouldn't play computer
games for hours.
2) It's a good idea to set the volume
on your MP3 player at a low level.
3) It's forbidden to enter the
computer lab.
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This is what my life is like in a song:::
I'm jealous, I'm overzealous
When I'm down, I get real down
When I'm high, I don't come down
I get angry, baby, believe me
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