Retype these sentences, making them smoother by changing the parts that are in brackets. When I was, [oh, around] eight years old, I thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. My parents agreed to purchase a piano. They told me that I would be required to practice one hour a day, [due to the fact that] piano lessons were expensive. At first, I practiced piano for two hours each day, [with the result that] I progressed very rapidly. Every day for two years I raced home [when] school [was done] and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm. Then one day, something happened. I decided I liked baseball better than the piano. Though I can play the piano rather well [at the present time,] I do not practice as long nor as diligently as I once did.

Arrange the events in ivan ilyich's life, which are described in chapters 1–4 of leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich, in chronological order. ivan ilyich becomes assistant public prosecutor, a position that he serves in for seven years. ivan ilyich meets zachar ivanovich in st. petersburg and receives a guaranteed appointment in the department of justice. ivan ilyich graduates from the school of law and qualifies for the tenth rank of the civil service. ivan ilyich becomes a public prosecutor and is transferred to another province. ivan ilyich is offered the post of examining magistrate in a russian province.

Which statement best explains the motivation for the narrator's mother to introduce her daughter to everyone they meet? from amy tan's "rules of the game."

Announcer two: ladies and gentlemen, following on the news given in our bulletin a moment ago, the government meteorological bureau has requested the large observatories of the country to keep an astronomical watch on any further disturbances occurring on the planet mars. due to the unusual nature of this occurrence, we have arranged an interview with noted astronomer professor pierson, who will give us his views on the event. in a few moments we will take you to the princeton observatory at princeton, new jersey. we return you until then to the music of ramón raquello and his orchestra. the passage is from the transcript of the radio adaptation of the war of the worlds by h. g. wells. instead of including expert interviews, h. g. wells uses a narrator to tell about an alien invasion that occurred a few years earlier. by including expert interviews, how does the radio broadcast change the story most effectively? o.a. it puts the story in the past tense, increasing its personal tone. o o b. it makes the broadcast sound more like a fictional story. o o c. it makes the broadcast sound like a news report. o d. it makes the story sound less believable by changing who presents the story's details.