Read this excerpt from little women.

"money is a needful and precious thing,—and, when well used, a noble thing,—but i never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. i'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self- respect and peace."

marmee tells her daughters this shortly after meg returns from a fortnight with the well-to-do moffats. amy and meg have both wanted to have nicer things and be a part of high society, but cannot because father lost their wealth. without marrying well, they will never have more than they do right now and will always have to work. selecting either meg or amy as the focus of your answer, discuss whether either girl learns the lesson marmee tries to teach them here. use details to explain why they have or have not.

100 points for 2 paragraphs

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 shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Which activity is part of the prewriting process? aproofreading to correct grammatical errorsb. doing research for information about a topicc. rechecking the facts presented about a topicd. writing the first draft of the essay

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