If you've ever tasted homemade jam, you know the delicious rewards canning can bring. But although it is fun and rewarding, canning is not an easy task. First of all, you need to grow or buy fresh fruit and wash it carefully. Then the clean fruit has to be mashed, heated to a boil, and mixed with sugar and pectin to get it to gel. Once the fruit is ready, it must be poured carefully into clean, hot glass jars. Next, add a lid and submerge the jars in a boiling water bath for about 10 minutes. As they cool, the "pop" of the lid tells you they have sealed. Which is an objective summary of the passage?

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Need answer asap plz! the descriptions of the west wind in the first two sections of “ode to the west wind” are dominated by images of a. violence, death, decay, and burial. c. peace, birth, growth, and blossoming. b. sleep, dreams, fantasy, and reverie. d. translucence, light, color, and radiance.

What is a mechanism by which organisms maintain homeostasis when the level of one substance influences the level of another substance or the activity of an organ.