READ from The Old Man and the Sea pages 109-128 through the line "I'll fight them until I die." WRITE an essay on the old man's experience with the sharks. Was it positive or negative? Why? How might this situation relate to life? Do we have experiences that are comparable to what the old man experienced? Explain in detail your thoughts.

Which evidence from the text best supports the idea that malcolm and donalbain believe they need to flee scotland before someone tries to murder them too?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Read this excerpt from edgar allen poe the masque of the red death and answer the question that follows.what kind of writing does the excerpt represent? here the case was very diffierent,as might have been expected from the dukes love