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Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony?Why so?Why, because temperance is unlike courage and wisdom, each of which resides in a part only, the one making the State wise and the other valiant; not so temperance, which extends to the whole, and runs through all the notes of the scale, and produces a harmony of the weaker and the stronger and the middle class, whether you suppose them to be stronger or weaker in wisdom or power or numbers or wealth, or anything else. Most truly then may we deem temperance to be the agreement of the naturally superior and inferior, as to the right to rule of either, both in states and individuals.
Read the sentence.He is obsessed with completing his album; he eats, sleeps, drinks music.
Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.
Read the excerpt from Utopia by Sir Thomas More. But the time appointed for labour is to be narrowly examined, otherwise you may imagine that since there are only six hours appointed for work, they may fall under a scarcity of necessary provisions: but it is so far from being true that this time is not sufficient for supplying them with plenty of all things, either necessary or convenient, that it is rather too much; and this you will easily apprehend if you consider how great a part of all other nations is quite idle.
Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today, because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.
Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us—we who have to live with the consequences.To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise—the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]—the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on January 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just "business as usual” and some technical solutions? With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 1/2 years.
Read the excerpt from Utopia by Sir Thomas More.The same trade generally passes down from father to son, inclinations often following descent: but if any man’s genius lies another way he is, by adoption, translated into a family that deals in the trade to which he is inclined; and when that is to be done, care is taken, not only by his father, but by the magistrate, that he may be put to a discreet and good man: and if, after a person has learned one trade, he desires to acquire another, that is also allowed, and is managed in the same manner as the former. When he has learned both, he follows that which he likes best, unless the public has more occasion for the other.
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honour and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and dishonour the poor man.They do so.They next proceed to make a law which fixes a sum of money as the qualification of citizenship; the sum is higher in one place and lower in another, as the oligarchy is more or less exclusive; and they allow no one whose property falls below the amount fixed to have any share in the government. These changes in the constitution they effect by force of arms, if intimidation has not already done their work.Read the excerpt from Utopia by Sir Thomas More.Even the Syphogrants, though excused by the law, yet do not excuse themselves, but work, that by their examples they may excite the industry of the rest of the people; the like exemption is allowed to those who, being recommended to the people by the priests, are, by the secret suffrages of the Syphogrants, privileged from labour, that they may apply themselves wholly to study; and if any of these fall short of those hopes that they seemed at first to give, they are obliged to return to work; and sometimes a mechanic that so employs his leisure hours as to make a considerable advancement in learning is eased from being a tradesman and ranked among their learned men.
Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”Then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—Defoe, Jane Austen, Hardy. Now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery.
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. Let us then consider, first of all, what will be their way of life, now that we have thus established them. Will they not produce corn . . . and clothes, and shoes, and build houses for themselves? And when they are housed, they will work, in summer, commonly, stripped and barefoot, but in winter substantially clothed and shod. They will feed on barley-meal and flour of wheat, baking and kneading them, making noble cakes and loaves; these they will serve up on a mat of reeds or on clean leaves, themselves reclining the while upon beds strewn with yew or myrtle. And they and their children will feast . . . wearing garlands on their heads, and hymning the praises of the gods, in happy converse with one another. And they will take care that their families do not exceed their means; having an eye to poverty or war.
Read the body paragraph from an argumentative essay.Dancers are by far the most talented athletes in modern society. All dancers are really strong, graceful, and flexible. Everyone wishes they could be coordinated like dancers. Only people who have never seen a dance say dancers are not athletes.
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.And what shall be their education? Can we find a better than the traditional sort?—and this has two divisions, gymnastic for the body, and music for the soul. True. Shall we begin education with music, and go on to gymnastic afterwards?By all means.And when you speak of music, do you include literature or not? I do.Read the excerpt from Utopia by Sir Thomas More. It is ordinary to have public lectures every morning before daybreak, at which none are obliged to appear but those who are marked out for literature; yet a great many, both men and women, of all ranks, go to hear lectures of one sort or other, according to their inclinations: but if others that are not made for contemplation, choose rather to employ themselves at that time in their trades, as many of them do, they are not hindered, but are rather commended, as men that take care to serve their country.
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Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.And if so, we must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.Undoubtedly.Then more than four citizens will be required; for the husbandman will not make his own plough or mattock, or other implements of agriculture, if they are to be good for anything. Neither will the builder make his tools—and he too needs many; and in like manner the weaver and shoemaker.True.Then carpenters, and smiths, and many other artisans, will be sharers in our little State, which is already beginning to grow? True.
What should a writer include when formulating a strong claim in an argumentative essay? Check all that apply.a viewpoint on the topicthe topic of the argumenta strong bias about the topica detailed rebuttal to the topicthe major reasons supporting the topic
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Read the claim.In modern society, people are spending too much time using technological devices.Now, read the counterclaim.Proponents of technology point out the way it has improved communication. They note that less than a century ago, it took months to communicate with someone on the other side of the world. Now it takes only seconds.
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.On the other hand, the men of business, stooping as they walk, and pretending not even to see those whom they have already ruined, insert their sting—that is, their money—into some one else who is not on his guard against them, and recover the parent sum many times over multiplied into a family of children: and so they make drone and pauper to abound in the State.Yes, he said, there are plenty of them—that is certain.The evil blazes up like a fire; and they will not extinguish it, either by restricting a man’s use of his own property, or by another remedy:What other? One which is the next best, and has the advantage of compelling the citizens to look to their characters:—Let there be a general rule that every one shall enter into voluntary contracts at his own risk, and there will be less of this scandalous money-making, and the evils of which we were speaking will be greatly lessened in the State.
Read the sentence.My brother who is a superb actor will audition tomorrow for a film role.
Read the excerpt from Pat Mora’s essay "The Leader in the Mirror."I hoped that most of the students were going to enroll in college. The confetti would be for their private celebrations, those solitary moments when they had passed a test that worried them, finished a difficult paper at 2 A.M., found a summer internship. Sometimes, even when no one else is around, it’s important to celebrate when we have struggled and succeeded—to sprinkle a little confetti on our own heads.
Read Dimitri’s outline for the claim and one body paragraph of his argumentative essay.Claim: Social networking improves society.Reasons: It helps people to share information and connect with global events.Evidence: A recent survey showed that almost 30% of Americans get their news from social networking rather than from TV or radio.Counterclaim: Social networking is distracting, leading to lower grades among students.
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.But with the judge it is otherwise; since he governs mind by mind; he ought not therefore to have been trained among vicious minds, and to have associated with them from youth upwards, and to have gone through the whole calendar of crime, only in order that he may quickly infer the crimes of others as he might their bodily diseases from his own self-consciousness; the honourable mind which is to form a healthy judgment should have had no experience or contamination of evil habits when young. And this is the reason why in youth good men often appear to be simple, and are easily practised upon by the dishonest, because they have no examples of what evil is in their own souls.
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Read the sentence.The entire first period class agreed that yesterday’s algebra homework which the teacher assigned was a really fun challenge.
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Read the sentence.You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl.
According to "How to Think Like a Researcher," a chapter from How to Find Out Anything, one should begin research by asking answerable questions rather than open-ended questions. Based on the guidelines in the text, which is an appropriate research question?
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. And our State must once more enlarge; and this time the enlargement will be nothing short of a whole army, which will have to go out and fight with the invaders for all that we have, as well as for the things and persons whom we were describing above.
Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us—we who have to live with the consequences. To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise—the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]—the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on January 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just "business as usual” and some technical solutions? With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 1/2 years.
Based on the titles, which is a procedural text?
Read Pat Mora’s poem quoted in "The Leader in the Mirror."Immigrantswrap their babies in the American flag,feed them mashed hot dogs and apple pie,name them Bill and Daisy,buy them blonde dolls that blink blueeyes or a football and tiny cleatsbefore the baby can even walk,speak to them in thick EnglishNow read the excerpt from Mora’s essay "The Leader in the Mirror."My own father was once a paper boy for the newspaper hosting the banquet. I might not have known that fact, nor his long history of hard work, had I not been listening to him with my tape recorder a few years ago. I did not want the students to wait as long as I had to begin preserving the rich inheritance of their family voices. The strength of their heritage would give them the courage to face the future.
Read the excerpt from The Republic by PlatoAnd with such a diet they may be expected to live in peace and health to a good old age, and bequeath a similar life to their children after them.Yes, Socrates, he said, and if you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would you feed the beasts?
Which sentences contain phrases that are hyphenated correctly? Select 3 options.Over a-third of our class walks to school, while another-third rides the bus.The recipe only uses one-sixteenth of a cup of sugar per thirty-two cupcakes.We planted forty-two trees, but the twenty-two apple trees were my favorites.I will be twenty-five years old the same year that my grandma is one-hundred.We had to memorize twenty-one verses, which was only one-half of the poem.
To effectively compare and contrast two texts written in different genres, a reader must
Read the excerpt from Pat Mora’s essay "The Leader in the Mirror."The final gift of the evening, a mirror, was for serious gazing. I asked the students if they saw a leader when they looked into their mirrors. My guess is that too many of our young people do not see themselves as leaders because they don’t look, dress or sound like the images of leaders presented to us. But leaders come in all colors, shapes and sizes. Some are talkative while others are quiet, but they all share a determination to contribute to the society of the future.I urged the students to look often in their mirrors and to ask themselves these questions: "Am I satisfied with this world? If not, what will I do to improve it?” For if we are shaped by our surroundings, we in turn shape them. We deceive ourselves if we believe that we can live neutral lives.
After a procedure has been completed, what questions can be asked to help evaluate the results? Check all that apply.When should this procedure be performed again?Were the steps completed in order?What could be done differently in the future?Was the expected outcome reached?Who else has completed this procedure?
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Read the excerpt from the body paragraph of an argumentative essay.(1) Furthermore, social networking has helped to improve society. (2) It helps people share information, which makes their lives better. (3) It also provides people with news, which helps people connect with global events. (4) In fact, a recent survey showed that almost 30% of Americans get their news from social networking rather than from TV or radio.
Read the passage from "Physicians and Surgeons.”EducationMost applicants to medical school have at least a bachelor's degree, and many have advanced degrees. Although no specific major is required, all students must complete undergraduate work in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and English. Students also take courses in the humanities and social sciences. Some students volunteer at local hospitals or clinics to gain experience in a healthcare setting.
Read a list of the headings from "Physicians and Surgeons.”How to Become a Physician or a SurgeonImportant QualitiesTrainingLicenses, Certifications, and Registrations
Read the subheadings from "Physicians and Surgeons.”Important QualitiesCommunication skills.Compassion.Detail oriented.Dexterity.Leadership skills.Organizational skills.Patience.Physical stamina.Problem-solving skills.
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