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Lightening is a powerful force in nature.

Using evidence from both articles, construct a well-organized informational essay that explains why lightning’s power should be respected.

Your essay should include evidence from both “A Lightning Primer” and “Flash Facts About Lightning.”

Answer:

According to NASA Lightning, the thunderbolt from mythology, has long been feared as an atmospheric flash of supernatural origins: the great weapon of the gods. The Greeks both marveled and feared lightning as it was hurled by Zeus. For the Vikings, lightning was produced by Thor as his hammer struck an anvil while riding his chariot across the clouds. In the East, early statues of Buddha show him carrying a thunderbolt with arrows at each end. Native American tribes in North America believed that lightning was due to the flashing feathers of a mystical bird whose flapping wings produced the sound of thunder.

Facts about Lightning

The speed of lightning

While the flashes we see as a result of a lightning strike travel at the speed of light (670,000,000 mph) an actual lightning strike travels at a comparatively gentle 270,000 mph.

This means it would take about 55 minutes to travel to the moon, or around 1.5 seconds to get from London to Bristol.

2. When lightning strikes a beach

When lightning strikes sand or sandy soil, it fuses together the grains to create a small glass-like tube known as a fulgurite.

They are not only prized by collectors, they are also of great scientific value in demonstrating past occurrence of lightning storms.

3. The most lightning-struck location in the world

Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is the place on Earth that receives the most lightning strikes. Massive thunderstorms occur on 140-160 nights per year with an average of 28 lightning strikes per minute lasting up to 10 hours at a time.

That's as many as 40,000 lightning strikes in one night!

4. Helicopters cause lightning

Recent research from the Met Office revealed that helicopters can cause an isolated lightning strike. While flying, the helicopter acquires a negative charge, so if it flies close to an area that is positively charged (e.g. hail or the base of a cumulonimbus cloud) it can trigger a lightning strike.

5. 1,400,000,000 strikes every year

Lightning is one of nature's most recurrent and common spectacles. Around the world, there are over 3,000,000 flashes every day.

That's around 44 strikes every second.

6. Lightning destroys trees

Trees can often be destroyed by lightning strikes. When lightning hits a tree, it usually travels just below the tree's bark where there is a layer of sap and water.

This layer becomes instantly heated and expands causing the bark to be blasted off the tree and sometimes splitting the wood.

7. But it can help plants grow

While nitrogen is in the air all around us, for plants to be able to absorb it (a process vital for their growth) they rely on a process called Nitrogen fixation.

Although much of this process is done by bacteria and algae, the extreme heat of a lightning strike causes nitrogen to bond with oxygen to create nitrogen oxides which combine with moisture in the air to fall as rain and water plants with nitrate-rich water.

8. The width of a thumb and hotter than the sun

While the intensity of a lightning strike can make them appear as thick bolts across the sky, the actual width of a lightning bolt is only about 2-3 cm. The average length of a lightning bolt is about 2-3 miles.

The charge carried down this small channel is so intense that the temperature of the lightning reaches 30,000 °C - that's five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

9. Volcanic lightning

While lightning storms are impressive in their own right, they don't quite compare to the spectacle when volcanic eruptions trigger lightning strikes.

When an eruption occurs, earth and ash are thrown into the air in a giant plume, colliding to create an electrical charge. In the same way as normal lightning, the imbalance between the plume's electrical charge and the charge in the atmosphere leads to lightning strikes.

10. Counting lightning

To tell how far away a thunderstorm is, simply count the number of seconds between the flash of lightning and the boom of thunder that follows. Divide this number by five and this tells you how many miles away you are from the storm (or divide by three for the distance in kilometres).

Explanation:

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1) Within a few minutes of meeting Colin, Mary realizes they have much in common. What are the negative qualities they share? What are the positive ones? Explain your answer in 5-7 sentences.

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Part A
Which detail best describes Devon at the beginning of the story?

A. “When I closed my eyes, I could imagine . . .” (paragraph 1)

B. “I wished that road could take me back . . .” (paragraph 2)

C. “. . . she greeted me with an enthusiastic smile.” (paragraph 6)

D. “Alicia and I were silently pedaling our bikes . . .” (paragraph 7)

Part B
Which detail best describes Alicia at the beginning of the story?

A. “‘She’s invited you to go bike riding.’” (paragraph 3)

B. “Alicia was standing by the doorway . . .” (paragraph 6)

C. “. . . she greeted me with an enthusiastic smile.” (paragraph 6)

D. “Alicia and I were silently pedaling our bikes . . .” (paragraph 7)

Suppose Colton wants to find out about the first anime TV shows. Colton would find the most information by reading __________.


A. a dictionary entry for the word anime
B. a newspaper story about a famous anime artist
C. a book titled The History of Anime
D. a website for fans of The Powerpuff Girls

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Writers use metaphor and analogy

A.
for the same purpose.
B.
infrequently.
C.
together.
D.
for different purposes.

How do you write a blog? Step-by-Step

Are presentational aids and visual aids the same thing? Support your answer.

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Which supporting reason for this claim is moot clearly a premise? In other
words, which option uses deductive reasoning?
Claim: Our town should build a BMX bike track
A Biking is great exercise that encourages kids to stay outside,
B. A town north of us built a BMX track, and the kids love it
O C. One hour of BMX biking can burn as many as 600 calories
OD. If we build a track, we must require kids to wear helmete,

Some journal entries involve very little writing. For​ example, you might clip an article or advertisement from the newspaper and add a few comments on why it caught your eye. You might doodle or​ draw, write unrelated​ thoughts, keep travel​ notes, rate​ movies, or set goals. You might even press flowers between pages. Your journal is a place to save impressions and to​ think, plan, and work out problems. The following journal entry was commentary on a photograph of a couple posing for prom pictures. Read​ it, and then answer the questions.

May​ 25, 2002

The best day of my life. The worst night of my life. All that planning. Wow. ​ $800 another kiss bliss ​ headache, police,​ help!



This journal entry is very​ disconnected, but it no doubt makes perfect sense to the writer. Should it also make sense to the​ reader?


A.

​No, these thoughts have meaning for the writer.

B.

​Yes, clarity is a major principle of good writing.

C.

​Yes, what's the point of writing if not to​ communicate?

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Prompt: What is one theme found in "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keys? Provide at least two pieces of evidence from the story that help to develop the theme you identify. Explain HOW each piece of evidence contributes to the development of the theme you identified.

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Read the poem "The Seasons:"

It's spring, supposedly, but still the snow falls,
Somewhere, summer forlornly calls.
I think the seasons must be confused.
The months look on, somewhat bemused.

After five months of winter, it should be done,
But there is still no sign of that elusive sun.
Winter sports are all good and well,
But winter should be for just a spell!

We talk of summer and hitting the beach,
But the sand is buried in snow and out of reach.
The lifeguard towers have nothing to do,
And the frozen lake dreams of turning blue.

One day spring will finally arrive,
And hopefully summer will also survive.
Then, all too quickly, summer leaves will fall,
And, before we know it, winter will call.

Life is measured in many ways.
The passing of years, months, and days,
Nature always comes first, in all her glory,
Telling her own incredible story.

Select the sentence that summarizes the poem.

The lakes are all frozen, even though it is summer, and the season are mixed up.
The narrator wants to go to the beach but can't because it is covered in snow.
The seasons are not changing when they should because nature does what she wants.
The winter is taking too long to leave, and the narrator wants fall to arrive.

Does anyone know this?

Read the first stanza of the poem “America the Beautiful” by Katherine Lee Bates.

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

Which of the following statements expresses a theme developed in stanza 1?

A.
The phrase “for purple mountain majesties” contributes to the theme of praising America’s physical beauty.
B.
The phrase “From sea to shining sea” contributes to the theme that America is similar from coast to coast.
C.
The phrase “for amber waves of grain” contributes to the theme of America’s abundance of food and how she shares this grain with other countries.
D.
The sentence “Above the fruited plain” contributes to the theme of praising America’s farmers.

1 If you go to a doctor’s office today, the doctor will usually know the cause of your illness and how to treat it. That was not true of doctors 200 years ago. No matter what symptoms you had, the treatment would be the same. Doctors did the best they could with what they knew at the time, but their knowledge was limited. The practice of medicine has changed a lot since then, both in understanding what causes diseases and knowing how to treat them.


2 In the 1700s, doctors believed that people’s bodies held four fluids called “humors.” These matched the elements of the natural world: air, water, earth, and fire. The four humors had to be balanced for a person to be healthy. One of these four was blood. Doctors believed that a person who had too much “bad blood” would become sick, and the best way to keep people healthy or to cure a problem was to get rid of the bad blood.


3 For hundreds of years, doctors used bloodletting to treat patients with any number of problems, from fevers to back pain to broken bones. To remove the “bad blood,” a doctor made a small cut in an arm or near a wound. The doctor then collected some amount of blood in a bowl. In most cases, the doctor would continue the bleeding until the patient was close to passing out. People believed this would get rid of the bad blood so that the patient’s body could become balanced again.


4 The practice was so common that most doctors carried bloodletting pouches and kits with them. These kits contained tools for making small cuts, but people who didn’t want to go to the doctor for bloodletting could go to a barber instead. Barbers performed the same procedure on people to help them stay healthy. The emblem for a barber shop was a red and white striped pole. Red represented blood, and white was for the bandages used to stop the bleeding.


5 George Washington died in 1799 from what modern doctors think was a throat infection. Like most people at the time, he believed in bloodletting, and asked to be bled when he became very sick with a sore throat. During his brief illness, doctors drained a lot of blood from his body. They hoped it would cure him, but it did not; Washington died twenty-four hours later. Bloodletting probably did not kill him, but it certainly did not help him recover.


6 In the early 1800s, if a person was injured, a doctor might perform surgery. This could involve cutting off an arm or leg that was badly injured and could not be saved, or removing a bullet or other object from a wound. In those days, more people died from surgery than were saved.


7 One of the reasons so many people died then was that doctors did not know about bacteria. They did not clean the germs from their hands or medical tools between treating patients. Many patients got infections and died, but doctors did not understand the real cause of death.


8 In 1867, British surgeon Joseph Lister determined that carefully cleaning hands, medical equipment, and wounds could greatly reduce the risk of infections, but American doctors were slow to accept his views. It was the treatment of another American president that helped change their minds.


9 In 1881, President James Garfield was shot as he entered a train station. Doctors tried to remove the bullet. However, they did not clean their hands or tools. They tended to him for about ten weeks before he died. Doctors found that he died from an infection rather than from the bullet. That discovery helped bring about some important changes in medicine.


10 Today, doctors know much more than they did in the past and use the best information available. We are lucky that modern medicine is as advanced as it is, and offers so many benefits. Even so, some of their methods may change someday, as scientists make new discoveries.How does paragraph 9 fit into the overall structure of the article?

A.
It shows that studying an error led to progress in medicine.

B.
It shows that doctors did not need to clean their hands or tools.

C.
It tells what happened to President Garfield after he was shot.

D.
It shows that there were no advancements in medicine before 1881.

Part B
Which sentence from paragraph 9 best supports the answer to Part A?

A.
“In 1881, President James Garfield was shot as he entered a train station.”

B.
“Doctors tried to remove the bullet.”

C.
“They tended to him for about ten weeks before he died.”

D.
“Doctors found that he died from an infection rather than from the bullet.”

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“The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower” by Yei Theodora Ozaki

Character
Which character is facing the conflict?

Type of conflict
Is the conflict internal or external?




Problem
What is the problem that the character is struggling against?

Solution
How can the character solve this conflict?

ANSWER QUESTION IN PICTURE

How does the structure of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus? contribute to the development of a theme about knowledge?

Make a poem which using all poetic devices below 30 points for best answer!!! Need done asap! WRITE THE POEM ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE FREE VERSE DINT HAVE TO RYHME 3 stanzas!!!
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Allusion
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia

During the prewriting​ stage, writers

A.
check​ grammar, usage,​ mechanics, and spelling.
B.
make sure each supporting detail fits their main idea.
C.
organize their ideas in paragraphs.
D.
consider different topics of interest to them

Fiction authors often use history to inspire their stories, but, for the sake of entertainment, they don’t always adhere to the facts. Which of the sentences below go beyond the facts in order to add interest to the story? Select all that apply.


(1) But would the plane’s maiden voyage also be its last?


(2) The biplane ran along a downhill track to gain enough speed to launch.


(3) Station men carried the aircraft back to the start of the track, where the brothers made minor repairs.


(4) This flight was no less harrowing for Emelia than the first one, but she put her faith in her uncles’ ingenuity.


(5) As Uncle Wilbur rushed to the accident site, she feared the worst, not only for her uncle but for the machine!


(6) The plane zoomed down the tracks, sped off the end, and soared up into the air like a glorious mechanical bird.


(7) At the turn of the 20th century, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright tried something extraordinary in the budding field of aviation.

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Which sentence uses a participle?

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Your job is to interview Marco Polo.
Once you have chosen your key figure to interview you must ask your key figure 3 questions.
the questions are: Where did you travel during your lifetime, and what were your goals?

What effects did your accomplishments have on the people of Asia and Europe?

What was the most significant change you witnessed while on your travels/during your rule?

Now that you have chosen your three questions, you must answer the questions based on what you have learned in the lesson. Make sure to answer them in first person as if your key figure was talking and answering the questions. You should include information displaying your knowledge of the Mongol Empire, the events that happened during its time period, and the people involved. Each of your three responses should be at least 2-3 sentences in length in order to convey your knowledge and understanding of this information

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How did sailors find their way in unknown waters?
(A)They dumped cargo overboard to go faster.

(B)They turned their small ships into caravels.

(C)They used different tools to find their latitude.

(D)They used land markers to guide them safely.