Read the following quotation from the bean trees and answer the question that follows. “feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor's new year pig. all that work. in the end, it goes to some other family.” (the bean trees, a novel by barbara kingsolver. copyright © 1988 by barbara kingsolver. all rights reserved. reprinted by permission of harpercollins publishers.) what is the significance of this quote? a. it demonstrates lee sing's vast knowledge of chinese proverbs. b. it reveals lou ann's guilt at having left her family in kentucky. c. it illustrates the importance of food during the chinese new year. d. it discloses lee sing's insensitivity to lou ann's condition.

Ead this excerpt from the introduction to wheels of change by sue macy. imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. how suffocated women must have felt. and how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons. why does the author include this excerpt?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Write a line imitating the meter of the example (anapestic tetrameter.) and the beard/ on his chin/ was as white/ as the snow