2) Excerpt from Stranded
Tracy Wilson
APRIL 25. Even the morning air is sultry today. I would have fished for my breakfast last night before sunset, but I
would surely spoil before morning. Drinking my water warm has taken some getting used to. It's funny how we tak
things like ice for granted. If I become desperate I can always resort to eating the freeze dried rations, but that def
purpose for being here to begin with. Besides, they are about as edible as the tough, dry bark in a long dead tree. I
almost learned to track the time by the rays of the sun. Time, like water, seems to sit in a pot unable to boil if your
constantly on it. Time seems to be the only thing that man hasn't learned to control; but I am sure some genius like
Johnson is currently working on it, while sitting in a cubicle checking the four thousand emails on his Palm Pilot.
think I will lean back on this dune and nap a while before I head out to catch some lunch.
The author's description of Fred Johnson shows her use of
dialoque

"this year she had the extra joy of showing it to her small brother, and of terrifying him as well as herself. when they had done this many times they came back to the house to tell everybody that they had done it. he boasted. she mocked. they squabbled." how does julia feel about her little brother? does she love him? hate him? find him an annoyance? be sure you read what is implied by their reactions to each other.

Explain how johnny got hurt. how does this affect his personality

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion