(1) some of the greatest success stories in american history began with failure. (2) take
the case of sally ride. (3) when ride was a young girl in encino, california, her goal
was to become a professional tennis player. (4) she dropped out of college and practiced
hard to become a tennis pro. (5) in time, she realized that she would never be good
enough to compete with the best tennis players. (6) she returned to college and studied
astrophysics.
(7) one day in 1977, while working on her ph. d. at stanford university, ride read that
nasa was looking for astronauts. (8) she applied and was one of six women accepted
into the space program. (9) ride trained to be an astronaut longer and harder than she
had ever done anything in her life. (10) by the early 1980s, she was part of the space
shuttle program. (11) in 1983, as a member of the crew of the space shuttle challenger,
sally ride became the first american woman to journey into space.
(12) ride was getting ready for another mission when the challenger exploded in 1986,
killing the whole crew. (13) one of them was a new hampshire high school teacher
named christa mcauliffe. (14) ride was appointed to a special commission that
investigated the tragic accident. (15) a year later she retired from nasa and returned to
california, where she taught college. (16) since then, she has been involved in several
organizations that encourage girls who are interested in science and math.
1. which sentence does not belong in the selection?
a. sentence 4
b. sentence 6
c. sentence 13
d. sentence 15

Ineed badly ! i got to get this done and i can't get it done tomorrow! 1. expand the meaning of each sentence by adding adjectives. (dinner cooks.) (clown chuckled.) (car raced.) (dancer spun.) (panthers growled.) (leaves fall.) (bread baked.) (lake glistened.) (ship glides.) 2. using the sentences above, expand the meaning by adding adverbs. 3. using any five of the sentences from #2, expand the meaning by adding a compound word to each sentence. 4. using any three of the sentences from #3, expand the meaning by adding a prepositional phrase to each sentence. 5. using any one of the sentences from #4, expand the meaning by adding a synonym to this sentence.

Essay about how to keep environment clean and safe?

Excerpt from 100% - the story of a patriot upton sinclair 10 so peter walked along, with his belt drawn tight, and his restless blue eyes wandering here and there, looking for a place to get a meal. there were jobs to be had, but they were hard jobs, and peter wanted an easy one. there are people in this world who live by their muscles, and others who live by their wits; peter belonged to the latter class; and had missed many a meal rather than descend in the social scale. 11 peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. in a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at peter gudge? why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? no one did care; no one did dream. 12 it was about two o'clock of an afternoon in july, and the sun beat down upon the streets of american city. there were crowds upon the streets, and peter noticed that everywhere were flags and bunting. once or twice he heard the strains of distant music, and wondered what was "up." peter had not been reading the newspapers; all his attention bad been taken up by the quarrels of the smithers faction and the lunk faction in the first apostolic church, otherwise known as the holy rollers, and great events that had been happening in the world outside were of no concern to him. peter knew vaguely that on the other side of the world half a dozen mighty nations were locked together in a grip of death; the whole earth was shaken with their struggles, and peter had felt a bit of the trembling now and then. but peter did not know that his own country had anything to do with this european quarrel, and did not know that certain great interests throughout the country had set themselves to rouse the public to action. based on the author's characterization of peter in paragraphs 10, 11, and 12, which word best describes him? a) industrious b) loyal c) patriotic d) poor