1 It is raining on the house

of Anne Frank

and on the tourists

herded together under the shadow

5 of their umbrellas,

on the perfectly silent

tourists who would rather be

somewhere else

but who wait here on stairs

10 so steep they must rise

to some occasion

high in the empty loft,

in the quaint1

toilet,

15 in the skeleton

of a kitchen

or on the map each of its arrows

a barb of wire with all the dates, the expulsions,2

the forbidding3

20 shapes

of continents.

And across Amsterdam it is raining

on the Van Gogh4 Museum

where we will hurry next

25 to see how someone else

could find the pure

center of light

within the dark circle

of his demons.
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Cancer, ‘the big c,’ as it is often called. her doctor felt sure but ordered more tests to confirm his suspicion. while cervical cancer in a woman julianne’s age was rare, her doctor admitted, it certainly was not unheard of in her demographic group. her doctor explained that this type of cancer is often caused by a common virus that many women do not even realize they have. the human papilloma virus can lead to this type of cancer if a woman’s immune system does not fight off the virus in its initial stages. julianne was devastated. her doctor began to discuss treatment options and suggested an oncologist specializing in this type of cancer, but julianne heard very little of what he said. her head was spinning with questions. overwhelmed, she wondered how she would break the news to her family and friends. according to the article, a physician specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer is called

How could an audio recording most likely convey the characters emotions during the scene

(the black cat poem) where does the writer fail to support her points with evidence? what evidence from the story would you suggest adding to support these points?