PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A? A. "And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he
ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it."
(Paragraph 10)
B. “He said to Aaron, 'What did these people do to you, that you led them into such
great sin?"" (Paragraph 11)
C. "They said to me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses
who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."
(Paragraph 12)
D. "Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get
out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies." (Paragraph 13)
E. "The next day Moses said to the people, 'You have committed a great sin. But
now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."
(Paragraph 15)
F. "The Lord replied to Moses, 'Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my
book." (Paragraph 17)

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).

your eyes are the first things that you open

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.

i think it is c. good luck!