My first day on the job
the complicating incident is when the narrator’s editor has a family emergency.
which event is a result of the complicating incident?
a the narrator decides that journalism is the right career for her.
b the narrator learns a great deal about journalism over the next few months.
c the narrator needs to do all her reporting, as well as write her story, in one day.
d the narrator must complete her first news story without much guidance.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

Bees don't eat flowers they gather nectar from them and take it back to the hive. complete, run on or comma splice

Compose a one-paragraph persuasive message board post about grendel.