Gather research for an essay about a hoax from the past. eventually you'll explain
the background of the hoax and people's reactions to it, but for now your task is to
conduct research.
first you'll come up with a research question that will give you some direction as you
search for sources about the topic. you'll find at least five sources and evaluate each
for its credibility and relevance. you'll then choose the three strongest.

Read the excerpt from "the blackfeet creation." how do readers know that this excerpt is from a myth? the excerpt describes an animal called a muskrat. the excerpt describes old man drying the mud. the excerpt describes old man scattering mud over water. the excerpt describes how muskrat create land.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Using the impress program, you can add multimedia files, including audio, image, and video files, to the presentation by using the insert menu. the media menu. the edit menu. the add menu.