Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth has just seen the ghost of Banquo take a seat at Macbeth’s celebratory coronation banquet. Lady Macbeth takes Macbeth aside to find out what is wrong.Lady Macbeth. [Privately, to MACBETH.] Are you a man?Macbeth. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on thatWhich might appal the devil.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiveOur bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death,And with his former title greet Macbeth. Ross. I’ll see it done. Duncan. What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Third Witch. Sister, where thou? First Witch. A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap,And munch’d, and munch’d, and munch’d: ‘Give me,’ quoth I:‘Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed ronyon cries.Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ the Tiger:But in a sieve I’ll thither sail,And, like a rat without a tail,I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.
Read the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 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, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Which sentence contains a restrictive clause?
Jena is doing research for a presentation about pesticides in the fruits and vegetables people eat. Which source provides the most reliable information for research?
Read the excerpt from the conclusion of the letter to the editor.We need to urge our city planners to say goodbye to the urban sprawl that has engulfed our nation like a tidal wave in the last few decades, and instead build more traditional mixed-use neighborhoods that were once the building blocks of city infrastructure in our nation. As the authors of Suburban Nation wrote: "We shape our cities and then our cities shape us. The choice is ours whether we build subdivisions that debase the human spirit or neighborhoods that nurture sociability and bring out the best in our nature.”
Read the the letter to the editor.Evaluate the excerpt from the letter:How are mixed-use areas different from what we have now? Let me tell you. Our city currently has a dense downtown area and then a massive amount of sprawl reaching out in every direction—the sprawl takes up seventy-five percent of the city’s land. Urban sprawl, the spreading of large developments of housing and shopping areas around a city’s center, has many negative cultural and environmental effects.
What is the central claim of "What the Black Man Wants"?
Read the excerpt from "What the Black Man Wants."I am for the "immediate, unconditional, and universal" enfranchisement of the black man, in every State in the Union. [Loud applause.] Without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost retain the old name of slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slave of society, and holds his liberty as a privilege, not as a right. He is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protecting himself.How does the repetition of the phrase “without this” support the paragraph’s argument?
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