Miranda sat in the high school computer lab typing like mad. It was 8:30 a.m., and her 1,000-word report on The Catcher in the Rye was due at 9:00. For the past hour, she had been flipping through the ratty pages of the old paperback trying to discern the major plot points and then typing out a few sentences that she hoped were logical. The only reason she was able to get into the lab that early was because she was one of Mrs. Brody’s assistants, but a couple of hours in the lab didn’t make up for weeks of zoning out in English class.

Miranda could kick herself, but she was too busy skimming through her notes and attempting to remember something—anything!—that Mr. Giuffreda had talked about. Mr. Giuffreda was a tough grader, and Miranda did not work well under pressure—not a great combination. On top of all that, Miranda could hear her mother’s voice in her head: “One more bad grade in English, young lady, and no more soccer team.” Miranda failed to see the relationship between soccer and book reports, but she also knew her mother wasn’t kidding. When she had slacked off in geometry last semester, her mother had taken away her cell phone for a month. Another time, when Miranda had missed her curfew—again and again—she had gotten grounded for two weeks.

Still typing, Miranda thought about Mr. Giuffreda. He expected nothing but the best—and then some. He never gave extensions unless someone had a family emergency, and he had a terrible habit of brushing off even the most creative excuses. Anyway, Miranda didn’t need an extra day or two. She needed time to read the entire novel again. Miranda ran a word count—361. She checked her watch—8:45. She flipped to the end of the book trying desperately to remember the ending, but nothing was coming to her. Why hadn’t she paid attention?

At 8:55, she had a whopping, miraculous 402 words. The homeroom bell had rung five minutes ago, and students were filing into the lab for first period. Miranda’s fingers were still flying, but by 8:59, Mrs. Brody asked Miranda to leave so she could start class on time. Miranda saved her work on her USB drive, collected her pages from the printer, and slung her knapsack over her shoulder. Then she trudged down the hall to Mr. Giuffreda’s class as slowly as possible, even though she knew she would be late and would probably get detention.

Based on the passage, what will Miranda’s mother probably do?
A.
ground Miranda for the next two weeks
B.
find someone to tutor Miranda in English
C.
understand that Miranda tried her best
D.
force Miranda to quit the soccer team

Answer:

B

Explanation:

what idea is Dr. King trying to convey when he says that “unearned suffering is redemptive”?

HELP. WORTH 25 POINTS!
Struggling in quicksand creates a vacuum, which causes a person to sink. But the human body is more buoyant in quicksand than it is in fresh or ocean water, meaning that it is actually easier to float on quicksand than it is in a pool or the ocean. _after_ falling into quicksand, a person should slowly spread-eagle and allow the body to gradually come to a back-floating position. By moving cautiously in this position, the quicksand victim can then maneuver back to solid ground and out of danger.

A. after
B. instance
C. lastly
D. on the other hand

What surprised both union men and factory owners about the strike?

Choose the sentence that is written correctly.
A.
Kevin shivered in the cold while he waited for the cab to take him to the station.
B.
The teacher announced a class picnic and the students are shouting happily.
C.
The water pipe broke and the water gushed out and had already flown everywhere in the kitchen.
D.
As the food was served, the hungry children will eat it greedily.

Please help.
Which words name common ways of creating humor in a sitcom? (Select all correct answers.)
irony
metaphor
repetition
hyperbole

I need help please i will give brainiest. what is the major message that the author suggest about life? Book is Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief please help only if you read the book please

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What is the main image in Williams’s “This Is Just to Say”?
plums
breakfast

the kitchen

the icebox

eating
sweetness

Which subject and verb are in agreement?
A. Chefs/cooks
B. Cars/drive
C. Student/sits
D. Flowers/grow

Plz help! I give Brainliest!

Can someone describe being on TV using sensory language and imagery.

which answer choice is it?

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What do we gain from watching media that do not present a universal truth?

A. A better idea of how we should look and feel

B. An expanded knowledge of the world around us

c. Something completely removed from our own lives

D. All of the above​

How does the author use characters to make a statement about the value of human life in the world of F451? What does the author seem to be saying about the value of human life as viewed by the society Montag lives in? How does the author communicate his message through his characters? lord of flies

The volunteers lifted the boxes.
A.Sentence
B.Fragment

Rusted and broken.
A. Sentence
B.Fragment

The dog barks loudly at strangers.
A.Sentence
B.Fragment

Plz Help!

Do you agree or disagree and WHY?

Hunting animals is a sport that can be justified because of the theory, survival of the fittest.​

Find two examples of Sound Devices in the poem "David's Old Soul." Thanks.

What is the most important event that happened in chapter 9 of the book, The outsiders and why?

Which is the most accurate generalization that can be made about this
passage?
A)
Sojourner Truth believes that women should have
equal rights to men.
B)
Sojourner Truth believes that she is a woman equal
to all other women.
C)
Sojourner Truth does not want to upset anyone with
her personal beliefs.
D)
Sojourner Truth lists all the ways that she's been
mistreated and abused.

The outsiders what did the church symbolize

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the novel became popular because of which of these changes in England?
a. the Industrial Revolution
b. social changes
c. the growth of the middle
d. class all of the above

Kristi analyzed the following paragraph.

Koalas, the cuddly looking animals from eastern Australia, live in eucalyptus trees. When not climbing or napping in the trees, they are eating the leaves. A mother koala carries her baby for about six months in a pouch, much as a kangaroo mother carries her young. When the infant is old enough to come out of the mother’s pouch, it hangs on to her belly or catches a ride on her back.

Which detail from the text supports Kristi’s analysis that koalas are a unique kind of mammal?

A.
Koalas are cuddly looking animals.
B.
Koalas climb eucalyptus trees and eat the leaves.
C.
Infants are carried in the mother’s pouch for six months.
D.
The baby hangs on to the mother’s belly and rides on her back.

7) How does changing the medium/Film enhance comprehension of the text?

A.It enhanced the ways of the people and the admiration all the women had for Brom Bones

B.It enhanced how we viewed Katrina being promiscuous and the inappropriate relationship with Ichabod

C.It enhanced Ichabod's characteristics, motifs, and frightful legend of the headless horseman

D.It enhanced the aspect of the townspeople and the animals of the land ​

Desdemona tells her father that although she loves him, her duty is now to Othello. At what point does a person's obligation move from their parents to their significant other? Is it possible to be obligated to parents and a significant other? If yes, what potential problems may arise? If no, what potential problems may arise?

What is Reagan’s main purpose in this passage? to threaten the Soviet Union to urge an end to communism to explain why he is visiting Berlin to applaud small acts of resistance

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here,
but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly
carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;
that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Which best describes the development of the passage as a whole?
01. The references to the past, present and future indicate chronological organization.
02. The significance of the battle indicates organization by order of importance.
3. The allusion to the founding fathers and the past shows organization by comparison and contrast.
4. The reasons given for the war indicate cause and effect organizational pattern.

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Marketing to youth


Under-aged marketing is a cheap tactic to get kids to ask their parents either for money or for products regarding the advertisement they previously saw.

For the rest of these paragraphs let me get something clear when I use the words "kid" or "children," I am referring to any individual under the age of thirteen. I recognize this may be prejudice but it is generally considered that after the age of thirteen you are no longer a child; instead, a youth or a teenager.

The reasons I have boldly claimed that "under-aged marketing is a cheap tactic," is quite apparent and obvious when you put this under the imaginary common-sense microscope; let me elaborate. I will state the main points and then we can more closely examine them under this microscope

My statements:


"Kids don't have enough life experience to determine whether an ad or promotion is misleading."


"Kids generally do not have much disposable income, or income to speak of"


"Kids are used as a middle ground between marketing teams and their parent's money"


So, let's break this down; the first statement, what this is trying to mean is that kids have, unlike adults, not had enough life experience to determine whether a product is trustworthy. From prior experience most adults should be able to tell if a product is trustworthy, if the product is of enough quality, and even chose between products; consider diminishing returns (the concept that after a certain price products do not get better.) Kids lack this skill because they have simply not had enough life experience. Obviously, there can be exceptions to this, kids can have had enough experience, and there are adults that may not have enough experience to decern with this judgment; but to make it simple it is more or less universally accepted that people over the age of thirteen may already possess most or at least a bit of this judgment.

The second statement, this statement refers to how for many reasons, child labor laws included, children even over the age of thirteen may not be able to have a job. What this means is that children do not have a steady income of their own.

The second statement and the third statement fall under the same category and have the same finality; getting to the parents' wallet. This is usually the most controversial part of a subject like this, in the end, all that the marketing teams want is their money, they don't care how they get. If kids don't have money where can they get it from, the answer to that question is their parents.

So, in all this what the marketing teams are doing is getting to the parent's wallets. In doing so they are using their kids as a medium, if you will get to whom the ads were initially intended to get money from the parents.

All of this happens because children cannot differentiate between products. Saving the explanation from paragraph four, children do not have sufficient life experience for this, making them rely on their parents or other people, and use their parent’s money to buy them the product.

Some people might argue that all this just gives children more say in everything and allows them to see more of their choices. While to a certain extent this may be correct, yet again, children cannot properly and sufficiently decide for themselves what is best. Let me give a simple unconventional example. Little jimmy is innocently on the computer, watching his toy unboxing videos; when suddenly a mid-roll ad (advertisement in the middle of a video) starts to play. Jimmy is four years old and knows how to press the skip ad button but is suddenly entranced by an ad about cereal. This cereal claims to be the best serial in town, and that it tastes amazing. Little Jimmy had never heard about this brand but because the brand spent millions of dollars promoting it on various sites, it got to little jimmy who wanted nothing to do with cereal, to begin with. Little Jimmy thinks nothing of it, but it has not been forgotten. Next time little Jimmy goes to the supermarket with his dad, Big jimmy, for comedic effect. Big Jimmy and little Jimmy finally arrive at the cereal aisle, and little Jimmy recalls to his dad the ad he saw, claiming, “I WANT THAT CEREAL;” at this point, the ad has done its job. It got big Jimmy to buy his son the box of cereal that cost ten times as much just because it had a mascot and a catchy name; the cereal didn’t even taste that good, but they bought it. That my friend is how advertisements work, kids do not ponder upon such egregious things.

So, after this long-winded real-world example, it just goes to show you that people that think advertisements will broaden children’s spectrum and opinions on various products, it does not; whatsoever. It just makes the company more money; because more people buy.

In conclusion, children do not have enough real-world prowess to adequately choose for themselves (with some exceptions) what product is better, they will go directly to the one most advertised.

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Drag each tile to the correct box.

what's the meaning of hope?​

what is the author's main purpose in writing this article? “DO JUVENILE KILLERS DESERVE LIFE BEHIND BARS?” by Nina Totenberg

Why does the author choose to end this passage in this way

A) to show the reader that Silvio is a sensitive and caring man

B) to demonstrate to the reader that love is the root of all problems

C) to create a comic ending to what is an otherwise tragically sad story

D) to create interest in the reader in hearing about Silvio escape from death

Pls help me