Exploring the south pole Which idea is common to both texts?
A. Human history exists only because of the work the bravest and most adventurous people.
B. Humanity can benefit from scientific knowledge and inventions only through mutual cooperation.
C. Humanity's need for expedition and adventure has allowed people to reach and explore even the farthest points on the planet.
D. People's desire to compete against each other for control can often cause them to harm even the most hostile places on the planet.

This excerpt is an example of a claim of a. fact b. policy c. value d. definition

Why are danforth, hathorne, and the other authorities so resistant to believing the claim that abigail and the other girls are lying?

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?