1. On the day of the flight, young Norman Ollestad notices especially thick clouds and overhears a radio warning about the weather. What was the pilot's reaction to the warning? Why didn't Ollestad speak up and voice his concerns? 2. Ollestad describes a time when he was staying in a Mexican fishing village with his father. When they went Surfing, the waves were massive, yet he was able to successfully reach the center of a fierce wave, saying it felt like he had reached the center of the universe. "You’re in the middle of this energy force that can crush you, yet somehow you've tamed it and you're sitting inside of it. You've sort of broken it," he recalls. Explain how this moment might have helped him survive on the mountain.

3. On the day of the plane crash, the temperature on the mountain was just 10 degrees. Have you ever been in weather that cold or even colder? If so, do your best to describe how it felt.

4. Early in the episode, the narrator says that the "important things we learn from our parents don't really come into focus until much later in life." How was this true for Ollestad and his father?

5. Think about your own parents/guardians. What piece of advice do they say to you most often? What lasting lesson have you actually learned just from watching them?

6. Norman Ollestad, Sr., was 43 when he died. Given what you know about him from his son's description, would you say he lived a successful life? What leads you to this conclusion?

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

normally working animals are domesticated and ruled by a master, a domesticator (tamer), to perform basic and important functions on a farm, for example. the value used in this context is animal labor in exchange for food. it is not so much a contrast to the story told by napoleon and the pigs, since the animals of that particular farm also performed functions on the farm through domestication. the only thing is that in this case, who rules them is a pig, also an animal, but very respected, to whom the other animals lent him submission. that's about a strong relationship of dependency between animal and owner.

c. when the head chef asks the applicants to make any creative dish they like (i did the usatestprep)