Millions of years ago, an object hit the surface of Mars so hard that pieces of it flew up and escaped the planet's gravity. One piece was pulled down by Earth's gravity and was discovered in Antarctica. Scientists named it ALH84001. At first, they thought this meteorite contained traces of tiny bacteria. This would have proved that life existed on Mars. After further study, scientists decided that the bacteria may have entered the meteorite on Earth instead. The scientists their findings.

What kinds of images does the word "twinkling" suggest? dirt, earth, poverty, race leaves, trees, green, spring stars, dreams, looking upward, heaven darkness, sadness, loneliness, isolation they eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. dinner is a casual affair. plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, tin flatware. two who are mostly good. two who have lived their day, but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things away. and remembering, with twinklings and twinges, as they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths. tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

In virginia woolf's essay "a room of one's own," she creates a fictional sister of william shakespeare, whom she names "judith." what challenges does woolf claim this character would have experienced in her lifetime? why does woolf believe that elizabethan women did not write?

Which statement about thoreau's rhetorical style is most accurate?