Read these sentences from the passage: the sky above the high plateaus of arizona fills with a blazing ball of fire.  the air thins, and the ground trembles. daylight is replaced by a blinding flash of flames, and an ear-splitting howl roars across the land.  a 150-foot long meteorite smashes into the ground, creating an immense crater.  everything within a 100-mile radius of the impact instantly vaporizes along with the meteorite.  within seconds, the landscape is changed forever. which type of text structure is present in these sentences? and contrastproblem and solution

Find the center and the radius of the circle with the equation: x^-2x+y^2+4y+1=0

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Which statement expresses a theme that is found in both "escape" and "to live"? the search for self–awareness is often a difficult one. life's distractions can make it difficult to know yourself. a person often sees herself differently than others see her. being a part of two cultures can make it hard to know yourself.