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What happens to Iff’s slipper when it touches the Ocean in the Old Zone?It was instantly eaten away with a fizz and a hiss and a burble and a gurgle.How…

What are the core concepts of this reading?The problem with rewarding people for the wrong thingsWhat are the causes for fouled up rewards systems?1. Fascination with an “Objective” Criterion (managers…

Introduction (innocence)A pastoral-based poem which talks about an innocent child who requests “a song about a lamb”. The narrator writes “happy songs every child may joy to hear”.The Lamb (innocence)Blake…

What are the three contributing factors to the development of the field?Who coined the term ‘Sociology’?Auguste ComteWhat is a “sociological imagination” and who coined the term? How many component parts…

What is the setting of the story?During the Spanish inquisition in Toledo, SpainWhat POV is the story written?1st person POVWhat type of judgment was the narrator sentenced to in the…

Who do the Pickles stay with at Midnight Gulch?Aunt CleoWhat hid Midnight Gulch from the rest of the world?The mountainWhy did the town have to stay secret?Because the people who…

Who is the author?Laura HillenbrandWhere does the story take place?Santa Anita, California, 1937What are Seabiscuit and Rosemont?They are race horses who ran an important race at the Santa Anita trackWho…

Malaises of Modernity.The 3 problems of Contemporary society: Individualism, The primacy of instrumental reason & soft-despotism.Horizons of Significance (HOS).Moral horizons that transcend the self; that we compare things to, to…

act 1 scene 1the action of the play takes place in the kitchen and parlor of Doaker’s sparsely furnished home in 1930s Pittsburgh. The old, upright piano, its legs decorated…

TRUEGeneral ledger account balances are changed only by posting journal entries.FALSEInformation needed for journalizing adjusting entries is taken from the income statement and balance sheet columns of a work sheet.TRUEAfter…

de piestanding, anonimo= acostado/sentadoenriquecidoantonimo= empobrecidoatardecerduskamanecerdawnlanzarthrow, tirarno me frieguesdont annoy meenterrarponerse bajo de tierraperder el juiciovolverse locoequivocarsecometer un errorpretendientsuitor; persona que espera casarse con otraescampardejar de llover (it seemed like it…

Robertson DaviesAuthor of Fifth Business6Number of partsMrs. Dempster, I Am Born Again, My Fool-Saint, Gyges and King Candaules, Liesl, The Soirée of IllusionsNames of part in orderDunstable, Dunstan, Dunny RamsayNames…

lucentshiny; luminous”I will”the promise made in the wedding ceremonyfather of the churchKino is named after Eusebius Kino, a great seventeenth-century missionary-explorerPearl of the worldWhat name has been given to Kino’s…

What does George confess that he is nervous about telling him?George was nervous about telling him why they were kicked out of their old town WeedWhat is Lennie doing wrong…

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)Great French essayist and Renaissance humanist; began the essay as a distinct genre or species or writing; Francis Bacon (1597) became the first English essayistMastered the essay…

What street did Kathy, Ruth. Tommy, Chrissie, and Rodeny came out on? Where did they cross? What was their mood?They crossed High Street, crossed at a pelican, and their mood…

Sacrifice the black lambWhat is the first thing Odysseus does when he arrives at the Land of the Dead?-The souls of brides and young men-all battle slain and bloodyWhen he…

In paragraph 2, why does the author choose to repeat some words and what do these details suggest?The author chooses to repeat some words such as enormous and failure to…

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Stephen CraneMain Characters: Maggie, Jimmie, Mary, Pete, and NellieOther Characters: Tommie, Father, The Old Woman across the hall, Miss Smith, and Billie. Story Plot:…

Marita’s Bargain: authorMalcolm GladwellMarita’s Bargain: What is kipp academy? How are students chosen?Middle school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Students are chosen by lottery, any…