The speaker of the poem seems to make the best of an unpleasant situation. How do you think she does this? What specific steps does she take to improve her situation—and what else can she do to make it better? In 250 words or more, analyze the speaker’s approach to facing challenges. Cite text evidence to support your answer. Choices by Nikki Giovanni

Two or three months had gone by without any mention of my being a

prodigy again. And then one day my mother was watching The Ed Sullivan

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on TV. The TV was old and the sound kept shorting out. Every time

my mother got halfway up from the sofa to adjust the set, the sound would go

back on and Ed would be talking. As soon as she sat down, Ed would go silent

again. She got up, the TV broke into loud piano music. She sat down. Silence.

Up and down, back and forth, quiet and loud. It was like a stiff, embraceless

dance between her and the TV set. Finally she stood by the set with her hand

on the sound dial.

in this passage from "animal farm", by george orwell, the statement that best explains how boxer's response supports the author's purpose in writing an allegory is option b) orwell uses boxer's decision to avoid more carnage by working hard to show how the working class was manipulated. boxer and the other animals feel they are responsible for their carnage because napoleon uses propaganda to manipulate the animals of the farm.

explanation:

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.