From “boat song” by ralph waldo emerson the river calmly flows, through shining banks, through lonely glen, where the owl shrieks, though ne’er the cheer of men has stirred its mute repose, still if you should walk there, you would go there again. the stream is well alive; another passive world you see, where downward grows the form of every tree; like soft light clouds they thrive: like them let us in our pure loves reflected be. which is the best definition of repose in emerson’s poem? rest silence depth liveliness

Read the following passage "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if all the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important. what two central ideas in this story are most closely related? a. the importance of literature and the dangers of miningb. humankind's basic survival needs and independence c. the nature of learning and societal dysfunctiond. the powers of rumors and abuse of authority

1. select a book or movie that has at least one sequel. write a persuasive paragraph discussing which version you believe is better the original book or movie or the sequel. if there is more than one sequel to the original book or movie, select only one of the sequels on which to foous be sure to clearly introduce your argument use at least one ype of thetoric to persuade your reader, incilude specific details from the book or movie and address at least one counterclaim.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant