Writing Prompt 1 You have just read two passages about the effects
placebos can have on people. Write an informational essay
explaining how placebos function in our lives.
2 Manage your time carefully so that you can plan your
essay and do some prewriting.
3 Be sure to
• use evidence from both passages.
• avoid over-relying on one passage.
Your written response should be in the form of a multi-
paragraph informational essay.

Bartleby the scrivener what does the narrator believe that he has learned as a result of his experiences with bartleby?

How do to my dear loving husband and to the kings most excellent majesty's reflect cultural values of their time

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.