When a person's morals or principles require taking ywould or more actions, but the actions conflict with or contradict one another, this is referred to as (a)

0) "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, support structures, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important. which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?

Final test. which theme is conveyed in this excerpt from "the tell-tale heart" by edgar allan poe? true! —nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous i had been and am; but why will you say that i am mad? the disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. above all was the sense of hearing acute. i heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. i heard many things in hell. how, then, am i mad? hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly i can tell you the whole story. it is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. object there was none. passion there was none. i loved the old man. he had never wronged me. he had never given me insult. for his gold i had no desire. i think it was his eye! yes, it was this! he had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—i made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. a. the insane have no sense of time. b. the insane are obsessed with mortality. c. the insane are incapable of using deception. d. the insane lack imagination. e. the insane live in a reality of their own.

Read the excerpt from “the fall of the house of usher” by edgar allan poe. suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and i turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me. the radiance was that of the full, setting, and bloodred moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely discernible fissure, of which i have before spoken as extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base.