Avi Loeb, the head of Harvard University's astronomy department, believes that it is arrogant to assume we are alone in the universe. Read the article "We Are Not Alone in the Universe, a Harvard Astronomer Insists." Look for our 5 signposts along the way! After you've read, tell us what signposts you've noticed! Find and share at least 4. Give 1 example of each signpost you see by copying and pasting a sentence from the text in your discussion post. Then, explain how that sentence made you think of the signpost!

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

Which sentence contains a participial phrase that is placed correctly? -jose paid for a hamburger scanning the cafeteria for an empty seat -peeling off her winter jacket, sierra settled into the cozy armchair. -made of soft wool, nadia pulled on a blue sweater -the cowboy jumped from the horse laughing in the face of danger

Explain what the text says explicitly. reread paragraph 2 of "civil peace." what does this paragraph reveal about jonathan and his family's circumstances? cite textual evidence to support your response.