Read the account of the Flood in Genesis (Chapters 6 through 8); then read the account of it in The World Book or another encyclopedia. 1. Are these accounts different?
2. In what ways?

Type a paragraph explaining why. Use your Christian point of view.

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Sensational Subjects. Ask ten people the following questions:

1. Do you believe in large ape-like animals such as Bigfoot?
2. Why or why not?

Record their answers. Organize your data, and write a short paper about people's willingness to believe in sensational subjects.

Remember to document your interviews properly, using MLA format.

Slanted Reports. Using the following details, type two separate paragraphs.

Slant the first paragraph toward belief in Bigfoot.
Slant the second paragraph against belief in Bigfoot.
Use any promotional, propaganda, or slanting technique that you think will work. Here are some details to use in your paper:

1. A pair of hunters report seeing a giant animal in the mountains of northern California.
2. They describe it as being ten feet tall, shaggy, and dark in color.
3. They say it walks upright.
4. Both hunters trailed it into the woods where it disappeared.
5. They have tracked it by following the huge footprints that other people have reported.
6. No other animal known to science makes these tracks.

Read the two excerpts from act 4, scene 3, and act 5, scene 5, of julius caesar. cassius. ha! portia? brutus. she is dead. cassius. how scaped i killing when i crossed you so? o insupportable and touching loss! upon what sickness? brutus. impatient of my absence, and grief that young octavius with mark antony have made themselves so strong—for with her death that tidings came. with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. good volumnius, thou know’st that we two went to school together. even for that, our love of old, i prithee, hold thou my sword hilts, whilst i run on it. . so fare you well at once, for brutus’ tongue hath almost ended his life’s history. night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour. . i prithee, strato, stay thou by thy lord. thou art a fellow of a good respect. thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it. hold then my sword, and turn away thy face while i do run upon it. wilt thou, strato? which statement best compares brutus’s remarks at the death of his wife, portia, to his words before his own death? brutus shows more sadness for portia’s death than he does for his own. brutus is more philosophical about his own death than he is about portia’s. brutus uses more imagery when speaking about portia’s death than about his own. brutus reacts more matter-of-factly about his own death than he does about portia’s.

Read the following conclusion for an essay that claims that extreme sports should be more highly regulated because they are too dangerous: whether it is a high level of physical exertion, or extra doses of the "fear factor," it is common for extreme athletes to beat at the door of fate. it is these people who tempt their own mortality, while curious onlookers wait anxiously for the outcome, who must be protected from themselves. which statement provides the most accurate evaluation of the paragraph? a. the closing statement is unsatisfying b. the passage introduces new evidence. c. the thesis is not restated. d. the style is informal and inconsistent.

What character asks for god's mercy on the lady at the end of the poem? arthur lancelot the poem's speaker the reaper