Why is it important to learn Arabic and Spanish?

Answer:

You gain vital language skills when you learn Arabic. It is easier to learn French or Spanish and these languages will allow you to travel or work in various countries, especially in Europe. ... If you learn Arabic, you are sure that there would be a great demand for your language skills as the supply is scarce

Explanation:

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.

Which story premise is most clearly a classic tragedy?
O A. Heavy rains flood a musician's basement, ruining his equipment.
O B. Jesse tries his best to restore an old car, but the thing won't run.
O C. No matter how hard she tries, Tris just can't succeed at anything.
D. A successful business owner loses everything because of her
greed.
SUBMIT

A review is a type of Persuasive Writing.
True
False

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.

25 POINTSSS TO WRITE ME A Slogan about the zodiac signs

You are planning a research paper to answer the question of whether violence in video games has a direct connection to violence in real life. Which of the following research sources would be most likely to lead you to useful results?

Interviews with people who actively oppose violence in video games
Search engine: "violence in video games" and "arrest reports"
Survey results to compare statistics of violent acts with sales of violent games
Interviews with people who actively support violence in video games

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Which best describes the relationship between
character and conflict in the excerpt?

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

Big picture questions in Macbeth with answers and quotes

Examples of Slam poems

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.")

Has anyone read Jasper Jones and can help me with an essay?

change from active to passive: An earthquake destroyed the town​

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 summary does not include

A.Setting
B.conflict
C.theme
D.characters

Read the excerpt from Enrique’s Journey.

Before the train leaves, the gangsters roam the Tapachula depot, eyeing which migrants are buying food and where they stash their cash afterward. They try to get friendly with the migrants, telling them they have already done the train ride. Maybe they can offer tips? Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. They ask, "Where are you from? Where are you going? Do you have any money?"

How does the narrative technique of characterization support the author’s purpose in this excerpt?

It helps create uneasiness.
It helps create trust.
It helps create hope.
It helps create calmness.

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

What is the form of the word media?

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

What genre would The Crucible be considered?
A novel

A play

A written documentary

An epic poem

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

"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..!​

20 POINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


As you learned in this lesson, there are many storyboard formats, each designed for a different type of project. What kind of project would benefit from a storyboard with many frames on each page?
Select one:

a.
a presentation based on an existing structure or organization

b.
a presentation with a lengthy and very detailed script

c.
a project with slides that will contain many detailed visual elements

d.
a project consisting of ideas that may need to be rearranged