Let’s consider the famous opening of A tale of two cities. What is Dickens point in starting off by telling us about so many opposing forces in play at the time? What is he talking about, anyway? What reasons can you think of for this passage still being quoted today, so many years after it was written in mid 19th century? (In other words, how could this passage apply to our current time period?)

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift

Type the correct answer in the box. use numerals instead of words. if necessary, use / for the fraction bar. the length of each side of a square increases by 2.5 inches to form a new square with a perimeter of 70 inches. the length of each side of the original square was inches.

Drag the correct answer into the box to complete the sentence. i wore a new pair of shoes for a long walk