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Safian is writing an essay about a new medical technique. Which source would be most accurate?

Read the excerpt from "Why Bother Driving?”Public transportation financially supports communities. The American Public Transportation Association reported that public transportation is a $71 billion industry that employs more than 420,000 people. Not only is this monumental for unemployment rates, but it is also beneficial to the environment. APTA states that communities with more investment in public transit help reduce the nation’s carbon emissions by 37 million metric tons annually. Furthermore, studies have found that public transportation helps commuters save money. Refusing to utilize public transportation has disastrous effects.

Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans.”Whatever the real facts, the British, in ostensible revenge for the killing, organized a punitive expedition which raided Benin City, exiled the Oba and created the protectorate of Southern Nigeria.

Read the excerpt from Amir’s argumentative essay.Plants and hamsters require minimal caretaking skills. They both require food and water, which are easy to provide. Hamsters prefer not to be bothered by their owners. Though some people talk to them, plants grow just fine without this attention. If you have the capability of maintaining a plant, you can handle caring for a hamster.

Which details are evident in both the excerpt and the image? Select 3 options.

Which details from the excerpt help readers visualize the chronometer? Select 3 options.

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave” by Neil MacGregor.In the early nineteenth century Japan had been effectively closed off from the world for 200 years. It had simply opted out of the community of nations.Kings are burning somewhere,Wheels are turning somewhere,Trains are being run,Wars are being won,Things are being doneSomewhere out there, not here.Here we paint screens.Yes . . . the arrangement of the screens.This is Stephen Sondheim’s musical tableau of the secluded and calmly self-contained country in 1853, just before American gunships forced its harbours to open to the world. It is a witty caricature of the dreamy and aesthetic Japanese, serenely painting screens while across the seas Europe and America industrialize and political turmoil rages.

Read the excerpt.The benefits of conducting school year-round greatly outweigh giving students a summer break. With year-round schooling, students can remain active in their learning. A long summer break makes it easy for students to forget what they learned during the previous school year, making it harder to apply learned skills during the next year. Allowing students to have weeks of free time means that their skills will be dulled when they return. With shorter breaks, they will forget fewer skills and be able to start each new year performing at their maximum capability. Summer vacations are death to American education since students will forget everything they learn each year.

What must students use when summarizing an informational text? Select 3 options.a casual toneinformal languageacademic languagean objective, formal tonea variety of sentence types

Read the excerpt from "Ship's Chronometer from HMS Beagle” and consider the accompanying photo.It was not until around 1800 that two London clockmakers managed to simplify the chronometer mechanisms so that virtually any ship – and certainly the larger ships of the Royal Navy – could carry them as routine equipment.

Read the excerpt from "Early Victorian Tea Set” by Neil MacGregor.As it got cheaper, tea also spread rapidly to the working classes. By 1800, as foreigners remarked, it was the new national drink. By 1900 the average tea consumption per person in Britain was a staggering 6 lbs (3 kilograms) a year. In 1809 the Swede Erik Gustav Geijer commented:Next to water, tea is the Englishman’s proper element. All classes consume it . . . in the morning one may see in many places small tables set up under t

Read the excerpt.Kale is one of the most nutritious vegetables on Earth. However, its bitter taste and time-consuming processing prevented it from becoming a popular snack food until the kale chip was invented. Kale chips are just as nutritious as raw kale but are ready to eat and tastier. Their convenience and trendy marketing have made them one of the best-selling snack foods. A similar approach will easily work with any vegetable, thus making beets the guaranteed next wave in nutritious snacking.

Read the excerpt from "Ship's Chronometer from HMS Beagle.”As a maritime nation, the British were concerned with one problem in particular: they could make clocks that kept very good time as long as they stayed perfectly still but not when they were shaken about, and particularly not on board a rolling ship. If you wanted to sail, it was impossible to keep a precise record of time.

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave.”But there are other ways of reading Hokusai’s Great Wave. Look a little closer and you see that the beautiful wave is about to engulf three boats with frightened fishermen, and Mount Fuji is so small that you, the spectator, share the feeling that the sailors in the boats must have as they look to shore – it’s unreachable, and you are lost. This is, I think, an image of instability and uncertainty. The Great Wave tells us about Japan’s state of mind as it stood on the threshold of the modern world, which the US was soon going to force it to join.

Delmy is writing an essay about the history of education in the United States. She has a list of sources to utilize:www.blogger.education.comwww.educationfacts.comwww.wiki.education.history.comwww.education.govwww.history.org/educationwww.americanschoolhistory/forum.com

Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans” and consider the accompanying photo.There are several hundred Benin plaques now in European and American museums, and they offer us a remarkable picture of the structure of this West African kingdom. Their main subject is the glorification of the Oba and of his prowess as a hunter and soldier, but they also tell us how the people of Benin saw their first European trading partners.

Read the excerpt from "Early Victorian Tea Set” by Neil MacGregor.This is quite clearly mid-range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest British households were then able to afford. But the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver. The historian Celina Fox explains that tea-time had become a very smart event:In the 1840s the Duchess of Bedford introduces the ri

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave” by Neil MacGregor.In the early nineteenth century Japan had been effectively closed off from the world for 200 years. It had simply opted out of the community of nations.Kings are burning somewhere,Wheels are turning somewhere,Trains are being run,Wars are being won,Things are being doneSomewhere out there, not here.Here we paint screens.Yes . . . the arrangement of the screens.This is Stephen Sondheim’s musical tableau of the secluded and calmly self-contained country in 1853, just before American gunships forced its harbours to open to the world. It is a witty caricature of the dreamy and aesthetic Japanese, serenely painting screens while across the seas Europe and America industrialize and political turmoil rages.

Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.This object has on it the image of a king, but this particular example has been appropriated by women – disfigured by a slogan as an act of female protest against the laws of the state. It is a British penny with King Edward VII in elegant profile, but his image has been defaced in what was then a criminal act. Stamped all over the king’s head in crude capitals are the words VOTES FOR WOMEN. This suffragette coin stands for all those who fought for the right to vote.

Read the excerpt from "Ship's Chronometer from HMS Beagle.”Just as people adopted a common standard time, so numerous aspects of working and daily life were becoming rigidly fixed by the clock, from clocking on at work to school hours and tea-time – which is the subject of our next chapter.