(from "the bet," by anton chekhov)
for the first year of his confinement, as far as one could judge from his brief notes, the prisoner suffered severely from loneliness and depression. the sounds of the piano could be heard
continually day and night from his lodge. he refused wine and tobacco wine, he wrote, excites the desires, and desires are the worst foes of the prisoner and besides, nothing could be m
dreary than drinking good wine and seeing no one. and tobacco spoilt the air of his room. in the first year the books he sent for were principally of a light character, novels with a complicate
plot sensational and fantastic stories, and so on.
determine the causes and effects in this passage, and then enter your answer into the space provided. be as detailed as possible in your response. provide at least three sentences for you
answer include specific quotations from the text that show why you came to your conclusion

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

How many lynching took place in the south between 1877 and 1950

Read the claim. human bodies have developed over time to support a vegetarian diet. which sentence provides the best supporting evidence for the claim? because humans have evolved over millions of years, it makes sense that our diet has evolved as well. i can feel the negative effects of meat and its excess vitamins when i consume meat products. the length of human intestines is better suited to digest food derived from plants than to digest meat. human taste buds have matured throughout history in a way that makes people crave the flavor of meat.