Both the short story "What Happened During the Ice Storm" and the poem "The Fight" tell stories about the unpredictable nature of human impulse in the face of nature. How does each writer use pivotal words and phrases to
develop this theme? What are they saying about our relationship with the natural world?

What do mcmahon’s references to thomas carlyle and john stuart mill do for his own image and credibility?

4friends evenly divided up a nn-slice pizza. one of the friends, harris, ate 11 fewer slice than he received.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.