Luiza is writing this paragraph about Sudanese Slit Drum.In "Sudanese Slit Drum,” Neil MacGregor traces the origins of a slit drum from Central Africa. He uses the drum to trace the Sudanese struggle for independence and to explain the battle that Kitchener’s Anglo-Egyptian army fought against the Sudanese.
Read the excerpt from "How to Think Like a Researcher," a chapter from How to Find Out Anything.But don’t throw your hands up in frustration and disgust just yet. Instead, let’s recast that open-ended question into a series of factual questions that you can answer.How much did CEO Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems earn in 2007?What was the average salary paid to the chief executive officers at the ten largest computer companies in the past five years?Who is an expert on computer industry compensation whom I can interview and quote?What books can I consult that discuss compensation trends in the software industry?By coming up with a series of factual questions to ask, the initial abstract question starts to take shape as a concrete project. These factual questions will yield to diligent research because answers to each of them can be found.
Which details from the excerpt provide more information about Shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? Select 3 options.
Which sentence should be revised to include commas to set off a nonrestrictive element?
Read the last stanza of "Mutability.”It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Which are examples of genres? Check all that apply.playsdiagramsnovelsessayslecturesequations
Read the claim.The way to improve education is to divide schools by gender, so that males and females are taught separately.
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s State of the Union address.Fortunately, there are only a few Americans who place appetite above patriotism. The overwhelming majority realize that the food we send abroad is for essential military purposes, for our own and Allied fighting forces, and for necessary help in areas that we occupy.
Which phrases from the excerpt provide visual details? Select 3 options.
Read the sentence.The shop next door, which is family owned, creates specially made, chocolate covered desserts.
Read the passage from How to Live Twenty-Four Hours a Day."What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, in the train, and in the crowded street again?” Precisely. Nothing simpler!
Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans.”They and their Dutch and English competitors, who followed later in the sixteenth century, carried gold and ivory to Europe and in return brought commodities from all over the world that were greatly valued by the Oba’s court . . .
Read the excerpt from "Digging."My father, digging. I look down
Read the excerpt from "Digging."The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
Select 5 options.Claims must always be supported by evidence such asfacts.opinions.statistics.quotations.examples.hypotheticals.
Which statements are true of both a political speech and a printed political advertisement? Select 3 options.They utilize diction as rhetoric.They employ parallelism.They seek to inspire.They use colors and images.They attempt to persuade.
Read the passage from "Mutability.”We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Read the passage from "Ode on a Grecian Urn."What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
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