Meaning of the word deicide? the word deity means "god." the suffix -cide comes from the latin -cida, which means "kill." the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday (excerpt) my grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that now is all but out of there was a wariness in her, and an she was a christian in her later years, but she had come a long way about, and she never forgot her birthright. as a child she had been to the sun dances; she had taken part in those annual rites, and by them she had learned the restoration of her people in the presence of tai-me. she was about seven when the last kiowa sun dance was held in 1887 on the washita river above rainy mountain creek. the buffalo were gone. in order to consummate the ancient sacrifice--to impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine tree--a delegation of old men journeyed into texas, to beg and barter for an animal from the goodnight she was ten when the kiowas came together for the last time as a living sun dance culture. they could find no buffalo; they had to hang an old hide from the sacred tree. before the dance could begin, a company of soldiers rode out from fort sill under orders to disperse the tribe. without cause the essential act of their having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground, the kiowas backed away forever from the medicine tree. that was july 20, 1890, at the great bend of the washita. my grandmother was there. without bitterness, and for as long as she lived, she bore a vision of .

Vvnici prece di evidence would best support teason #to the history of using animals for research extends asfar back as 322 bce, when early greek physician-scientists, such as aristotle and erasistratus,performed various experiments on living animals.0 animal research played an essential role in thedevelopment of herceptin and tamoxifen, twomedications that have already saved the lives ofthousands of women who have been diagnosed withbreast cancer.even those who believe in testing on animals when it isnecessary for vital medical research practice what isknown as "the 3 rs"-reduction, refinement, andreplacement to reduce the number of animals usedfor testingbiologists believe that chimpanzees share at least 98.4percent of the same dna as humans and gorillas shareat least 97 percent, making primates a popular andlikely choice for the testing of products intended for humans

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

Your school has recently decided to start serving genetically modified food as part of school lunches. give a multimedia presentation to the student council arguing for or against the new policy. include engaging visual elements and strong evidence that support your position.