Rip Van Winkle” is considered an allegory because its characters are symbolic. For example, at the beginning of the story, Rip Van Winkle represents the complacent American at the time of the Revolution because he acquiesces to his wife. Who/What does Dame Van Winkle represent? How do the changes in Rip after his lengthy slumber relate to the changes in America after the war? Support your answers with textual evidence.

Which sentence accurately describes elements of historical fiction?

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed

There is nothing miniscule about our --let alone our universe.