Erin: (looking at a calendar) what do you think? michael: (shaking his head) i don't know, but we have to decide. erin: (picking up baby grant and kissing him) your second birthday will be so much fun, big boy! michael: i think more kids will be able to come if we have it in the afternoon. and on a saturday, not wednesday. well, at least we have the theme picked out. erin: goodness for that! grant just loves dr. seuss. (pulls out her cell phone) i think i will call his grandmother to talk about it. what is going on in this scene? a) erin and grant are planning a birthday party for michael. b) michael and erin are trying to choose a date and time for a christmas party. c) michael is planning to take grant to the doctor before his birthday. d) michael and erin are trying to choose a date and time for grant's birthday party.

Read the excerpt from a history of the world in 100 objects. power is usually not willingly given, but forcefully taken; and in both europe and america the nineteenth century was punctuated by political protest, with periodic revolutions on the continent, the civil war in america and, in britain, a steady struggle to widen the suffrage. what would be a benefit of reading this text rather than listening to an audio version of it? the reader could analyze the text features in the excerpt. the reader could visualize the description given. the reader could set his or her own pace and reread parts for clarity. the reader could hear the sounds of the political protest.

How and why does king use the word redemptive to link the concepts of freedom and religious faith

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?