“you are mad, and gone the wrong way. you take falsehood for truth and ugliness for beauty. you would marvel if suddenly apple and orange trees should bear frogs and lizards instead of fruit, and if roses should begin to breathe the odor of a sweating horse. so do i marvel at you, who have bartered heaven for earth. i do not want to understand you . . ” identify how chekhov’s background and beliefs may have influenced his short story “the bet.”

Write a short paragraph explaining how to determine what information to put into a slide show presentation.

Preview the following sentence and identify the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. the brain was riddled with holes, it looked like a sponge. a. bridled c. perforated b. pierced d. b and c select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d mark this and return

It was fifteen minutes before i could work myself up to go and humble myself to a ; but i done it, and i warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. i didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and i wouldn’t done that one if i’d a knowed it would make him feel that way. in at least one hundred words, describe what central theme in the adventures of huckleberry finn emerges in this excerpt, and how its emergence relates to the social norms of the time.