(1) television changed my family forever. (2) we stopped eating dinner at the dining-room table after my mother found out about tv trays. (3) we kept the tv trays behind the kitchen door and served ourselves from pots on the stove. (4) setting and clearing the dining-room table used to be my job; now, setting and clearing meant unfolding and wiping our tv trays, then, when we’d finished, wiping and folding our tv trays. (5) dinner was served in time for one program and finished in time for another. (6) during dinner we used to talk to one another. (7) now television talked to us. (8) if you had something you absolutely had to say, you waited until the commercial, which is, i suspect, where i learned to speak in thirty-second bursts. (9) as a future writer, it was good practice in editing my thoughts. (10) as a little girl, it was lonely as hell. (11) once in a while, i’d pass our dining-room table and stop, thinking i heard our ghosts sitting around talking to one another, saying stuff. source: move on,  an autobiographical book by linda ellerbee.. we can infer that when ellerbee imagined ghosts, she? a. was remembering better times with her family.  b. was scared of passing by the dining room.  c. realized her childhood home was haunted.

Clearly show? ramona: anna, where does the theme seem to change? anna: according the article: "the fault lies with the fda's inability to release enough information in order to regain the public's trust. but perhaps japan is to blame as well. although there are plans to remove the spent nuclear fuel rods and build a permafrost wall around the four damaged reactors, is this really enough to recover damaged trust? " and then sato goes on to explain this statement. o a. challenging established ideas o b. using evidence to support your conclusions o c. asking clarifying questions o d. synthesizing claims into a single conclusion

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next