ACTIVITY 1: DIRECTIONS: READ THE TEXT BELOW TAKEN FROM SHORT STORIES. IDENTIFY HOW THE AUTHOR’S HUMAN SITUATIONS AND EXPERIENCES ARE MOVING HIM TO WRITE SUCH LINES. TELL WHETHER THESE COULD BE INFLUENCED BY CULTURE, HISTORY, ENVIRONMENT OR ECONOMIC FACTORS.

1. Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying and cooking something good, and the aroma of the food wafted down to us from the windows of the big house.

2. DODONG THOUGHT TO HIMSELF HE WOULD TELL HIS FATHER ABOUT TEANG WHEN HE GOT HOME, AFTER HE HAD UNHITCHED THE CARABAO FROM THE PLOW, AND LET IT TO ITS SHED AND FED IT. HE WAS HESITANT ABOUT SAYING IT, BUT HE WANTED HIS FATHER TO KNOW. WHAT HE HAD TO SAY WAS OF SERIOUS IMPORT AS IT WOULD MARK A CLIMACTERIC IN HIS LIFE.

3. When the Americans recaptured the Philippines, they built an air base a few miles from our barrio. Yankee soldiers became a very common sight.

4. "I am afraid. He may not like me.“
"Does that worry you still, Maria?" my brother Leon said. "From the way you talk, he might be an ogre, for all the world. Except when his leg that was wounded in the Revolution is troubling him, Father is the mildest-tempered, gentlest man I know

5. The sight of the Señora’s flaccidly plump figure, swathed in a loose waist-less housedress that came down to her ankles, and the faint scent of agua de colonia blended with kitchen spice, seemed to her the essence of the comfortable world, and she sighed thinking of the long walk home through the mud, the baby’s legs straddled to her waist, and Inggo, her husband, waiting for her, his body stinking of tuba and sweat, squatting on the floor, clad only in his foul undergarments.​

The main characters in realistic fiction are usually dynamic; they undergo change and grow according to their experiences. louise mallard from kate chopin’s “the story of an hour” is an example of a dynamic character. which of the following excerpts from chopin’s story highlight the transformation that louise undergoes?

You are moving out of town and you are planning to sell your recently bought bicycle. draft a classified advertisement including the description of the bicycle, cost and other necessary details. about 50 words.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.