What is the central idea of "the importance of winning"? Provide two pieces of evidence to support your response.

Answer:

The central idea of the text is that there are situations in which winning is the most important thing, as well as how this victory was achieved.

Explanation:

"The importance of Winning" is a text that highlights how the sense of winning and losing is relative and variable in several different situations. In this text, we can see that the author states that we are taught, since we were children, that winning is not the most important situation in our lives, what matters is that we participate and have fun in a situation. This can be true in school competitions, or playing with our friends. However, there are situations in which winning is very important and the way you win is essential. An example of this, can be seen in politics and for that, the text addresses the presidential election of France where one of the candidates was an ultra nationalist who wanted to expel all immigrants from France, while the other candidate was a conservative politician more tolerant of immigration and cooperation with other countries. This was a case in which winning was of extreme importance for both candidates and migrants.

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1.Cite the source anyway so you can use that piece of evidence
2.Use the evidence but don't say where it came from
3. Try to find a more reliable source with the same evidence​

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Act now. There is never any time but now, and there will never be any time but now. - Wallace Wattles (American writer, 1860-1911)


In what way is this true? How is there never any time but now?


Do you think that having this attitude would make someone more or less efficient? Why?


What areas of life would this not be true?


Does this mean that the past and the future literally do not exist? In what way?

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What text structure would you use if you were writing a paper about the reasons an event took place?

A. cause and effect
B. comparison-contrast
C. chronological order
D. problem-solution

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Our father arrived home ___________________ than the rest of the family. (late)2. My sister sang ____________________________ than Amanda did. (beautifully)3. Your husband, Ken, writes ____________________________ of all. (well)4. Mrs. Henderson speaks ____________________________ than Mrs. Alarcon. (clearly)5. Mother prepares turkey ____________________________ than Father does. (well)6. Alexander and Peter work ____________________________ of all the boys. (hard)7. He checked his answers ____________________________ than she did. (carefully)8. Angelica speaks Spanish ____________________________ of all the students. (correctly)9. Percy talks ____________________________ than Jennifer. (frequently)10. She danced ____________________________ of all. (gracefully)11. This math test was ____________________________ than the last one. (hard)12. I did my homework ____________________________ than my brother. (fast)

Reread lines 5-13. What is the author's purpose in explaining Kauzlarich's feelings about Izzy? Support

your answer with explicit text evidence.

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I heavily pushed the wooden cinnamon colour door open as it screeched on the reeking dusty floor, leaving scraped marks. My blonde hair strands flowed around amid the unfocused lightened landscape, I tightened my toes to the grass, clenched my hair and brushed it out of my face, sighing ecstatically. I waved to my sister and ran off to collect wood. I looked around as animals cluttered around me, getting on with their daily routines. robins chirping, rabbits scurrying, squirrels squeaking and stealing acorns from oak trees, the hedgehog yields a yorn, buttercups, roses, lily pads, “OOOOWWWW ”. I fell...But.. before I helped myself get up, I stopped; My heart dropped to my stomach and my brain tingled as my body seared in anxiety. I felt something coiling around me. His hand reached out. His skin was black. Bleach black as if it was painted, his left eye blue and the other yellow. He pulled me up and asked if I was okay. “ I'm okay, thanks ''. He gave an amiable aura though he gave a diabolical feeling at the same time. “A snake”. He wore gold accessories, ripped black pants and tall. But I saw the exposed lacerated wounded maims that had stained him. He was about to leave but I got a strong grip of his hand. “what's your name? ”. He looked at me bluntly before answering “ kuzan.” The atmosphere got awkward fast especially when I'm still smiling at a statue, frozen to death. “What's up?,are you okay?, are you hurt? Do you need medicine??” he asked. “No, but where are you going?” “Home”. Home? I thought it was only me and Kiji that was living here… “ummm, would you like to come with me?”

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Which BEST describes what the two roads in the poem represent to the speaker?

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O A. What for?
B. So what?
O C. When?
D. How long?

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4. Why does James introduce himself to Dan Cody as Jay Gatsby?

5. Which statement best describes how the author
responds to the criticism that the adoption of new
technologies intensifies the issue of income inequality?
O A He emphasizes that increased economic activity
that occurs in technologically advanced societies
will offset this undesirable effect.
OB He acknowledges that this is one of several potential
adverse consequences, but insists that history
shows that America is equipped to recover from
these negative side effects.
He suggests that the "safety net" that social
programs provide to Americans will serve as a cure-
all for those affected by income inequality.
OD Herefutes the claim by demonstrating that,
throughout history, people and societies have
effectively rebounded from job loss and job
reduction

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01.- It   wouldn't be/wasn't so cold,
if you   would close/closed the windows.

02.- If I   wouldn't feel/didn't feel better,
I   wouldn't go/didn't go running.

03.- What   did you do/would you do
if you   won/would win the lottery?

04.- We   didn't ask/wouldn't ask
if it   wasn't/wouldn't be necessary.

05.- Where   did you go/would you go
if you   were/would be on holidays?

06.- I   didn't buy/wouldn't buy the tickets
if Paula   wouldn't come/didn't come with me.

What is the main purpose of the paragraph that begins with, "On becoming an astronaut:" in "Eileen Collins—NASA's First Female Shuttle Commander to Lead Next Shuttle Mission"?

A: to make the argument that there should be more female shuttle commanders in the NASA program

B: to inform readers about the Mercury astronauts and what they accomplished in space

C: to explain how opportunities for women in aviation helped pave the way for women to join the space program

D: to convince young people to pursue careers in space travel

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Write a hyperbole to complete this sentence. (10 points)

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How do paragraphs 2 and 3 develop a central idea in the article?

Birches
BY ROBERT FROST
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay
As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows—
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

1. What does the speaker want to think has caused the birches to bend? What really caused them to bend? Why might the speaker want to believe in the first cause?

2. To what does the speaker compare the ice that falls from the birches? To what does he compare their trunks and leaves? What can you infer about the speaker's regarding the birches? What might the speaker mean when he say that "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches?

3. In this poem, Frost compares life to a pathless wood. Do you think this is an appropriate simile for life? Why or Why not? To what might you compare life?

4. This poem includes examples of onomatopoeia. How, in your opinion, does onomatopoeia contribute to the impact of the poem?

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Chris has been preoccupied because he failed a big exam and now finds himself getting annoyed easily. Yesterday, he yelled at his boss and picked a fight with his best friend for no reason. He is not sleeping well and cannot seem to control his emotions. He recognizes that his actions are inconsistent with his usual easygoing personality, but does not know what to do to change this. Chris evaluates his behavior to determine whether he should seek help.

Why would Chris most likely conclude that he should seek help?

He feels in control of his emotions even though people annoy him more than usual.
His behavior has changed, but he is having trouble deciding what to do about it.
Outside sources are causing Chris to doubt his ability to do his job.
Many of his relationships are unhealthy and cause him to lose sleep.

What is the authors purpose to these questions?

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