In "Birches," the author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe

The shape of the trees after an ice storm

Explanation:

In  "Birches," the author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe how the shape of the trees after an ice storm.

This figurative speech further explains the role participated by the tree i.e

The trees bend slightly like the girls and dry their hair under the sun.

the shape of trees after an ice storm

Explanation:

the author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe how the shape of the trees after an ice storm

common stockholders usually have the right to vote on major issues affecting the company, like mergers and liquidation of the corporation's assets. they also have part ownership of the company which can then be traded on a secondary market (the stock exchange).

explanation:

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.