Ben Carson video questions 1. Where was Ben Carson born?
2. How old was his mother when she was married?
3. What was Ben's childhood like?
4. What did he see in a window that gave him hope?
5. What did they call him in 5th grade?
7.How were Ben and his brother Curtis wasting time?
8. What did they have to do before they could play?
9.Who did he marry?
10.How many children does Ben and his wife have?
11. He operated on twin ladies from Iran whose heads were joined together. What did the two ladies say?
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12 What does Ben say is good about failure?
13 What are the three most important things you learned from the video?
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Read the passage: canines may not be the deepest thinkers in the world. but perhaps that's for the best. the life of a dog—sitting alone all day, waiting for everyone to come home—can be pretty boring. super-smart animals would probably get totally stressed out, says university of pennsylvania researcher james serpell. look at it this way: if dogs were any smarter, they probably wouldn't choose to hang around with us. which best describes the tone of the passage?

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

Read the excerpt from act ii, scene v of romeo and juliet. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: 15 therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. friar laurence is motivated to offer this warning because he knows that something bad will certainly happen to the lovers. feels that romeo is acting foolishly and should not get married. enjoys giving advice because he is wise and can others. wants to caution romeo about the consequences of his actions.