Context Clues, Roots, and Affixes
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Using Context Clues to Define a Word
Which antonym helped you determine the meaning of
callous?
I suffered more anxiety than most of my fellow-slaves
Their backs had been made familiar with the bloody lash,
so that they had become callous; mine was yet tender; for
while at Baltimore I got few whippings
--Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass

the correct answer should be choice c. live coverage.

print journalists gain credibility from neutrality, while tv news reports gain it from live on the spot reporting.

i hope this you and have a great day! : )

i think continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they

stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay; ten thousand saw

i at glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

lennie

is very stupid, big and strong and sweet, he loves soft things

george

is smart reosponible and watches over lennie

candy

candy is an old ranch worker who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. he's spent the best years of his life working on someone else's ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money.

curly

is the ranch owners son he is said to have vasilene in one glove to keep that hand soft for his wife

crooks

crooks. crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back. like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. when lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact.

curlys wife

is lonly and seems to flirt with most of the men on the farm she does not like her hunband much.

1. the human rights issue in the novel is equlity the men in the story are poor and curly is mean to all of them as if they are just dirt

2. the first issue comes up when lennie kills the mouse

3. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

4. the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

5. lennie suffers because of his death he will never be able to tend the rabbits.

6. the wording in the qoutations imply what is happening in the story

7. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

8.   the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

c: the reader is first introduced to the girl bragging about how great

an actor she is.

explanation:

the girl is boasting about how talented she is, but in reality she is not talented enough to gain a part. (this could also be