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BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt



No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century [between 1890-1899] that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water . With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars , perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century [between 1900-1910] came the great disillusionment.



Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.



The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours , its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.



And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us . The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.





In three to five complete sentences, explain why the inhabitants of Mars are interested in Earth. Use information from the text to support your answer. Use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Answer:

inhabitants of mars would be interested in mars because they would need more water earth has many water and mars has unknown water so it would make sense. Also they would need a better food source because for all we know inhabitants of mars would just eat the dirt meanwhile earth has many sources of food. Finally,inhabitants of mars would probably not need air because mars has no oxygen meaning that they would most likely want a more ordinary temperature than the cold temperature.

Explanation:

It is important to use information from reliable sources because if you know its a safe and trustworthy website then it would make sense to trust the info inside it.For example if your friend is trustworthy and has never lied to you and he says that vitamin D is from the sun but you thought vitamin C was from the sun you would most likely trust them more because they never lied to you.Also if the source is unreliable then you probably wouldn't even go onto the website or trust it so it makes more sense to trust a reliable website. Another example would be when you read a dictionary you would always trust it because that is !00% facts meaning that you would not need to doubt it for even a second because literally nobody has ever made a dictionary where it says that light is where all the less vision is and it makes you see less. This is why you must trust only reliable sources/websites.    

If I per say got hit by a truck going 70 mph and then fell of a mountain onto a road to get hit by another truck how many bones would be broken

What are some examples of Internal conflict in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?

To express the grim mood of the poem, which line is the most suitable replacement for the second line of this stanza?

The tower held the city in shadow
it was a very tall tower;
I ached to climb those cold, grey walls
and look upon the little people.

A. We witnessed it with joy.
B. tall as a cherry tree
C. like a somber peak capped by the clouds.
D. It stood there fair with a winding stair

Editing is only necessary when writing short stories.
o True
o False
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Identify the “novel” opportunity that arose in the Victorian period that still persists today with wild popularity.

Why did the author begin the article by
describing the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)?

which is these BEST states ALexis's purpose in writting this letter

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How does the grandmother view the past?
A good man is hard to find
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Do you think people would be able to survive without
gadgets? Why

prerogative examples

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Find nine letter word from these letters

C N O I F D N T E

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Atalanta Connection Exit Ticket (12/1)
Instructions
IN CLASS ACTIVITY (12/1)

Practice making connections between the text and real life.

There are two ways you can do this:

Make a connection between the text and your own life. An example might be, "This character is brave but often doesn't think things through before making a decision. I tend to act the same way when I'm stressed or overwhelmed."
Make a connection between the text and the world you know. We all have ideas about how the world works that go far beyond our own personal experiences. We learn about things through TV, movies, the news, and our own observations. An example would be when a reader says, "I saw a TV show where the main character had a similar conflict," or "I remember watching a movie set in Greece."
What connection to real life have you seen so far?

The author of "The
Tortoise and the Hair"
is trying to teach us ______

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-Why does the speaker name so many kinds of workers?

-What is the effect of these references?

Bess raced across the gym floor. WHAP! She hit the shuttlecock over the net towards Pat’s far corner. Bess quickly returned to the center court so she was ready to run in any direction.
WHAP! Pat returned to the volley. Bess stepped sideways and tapped the shuttlecock gently. It popped over the net. Pat ran forward quickly. But it was too late. Pat fell under the net and slid across the floor to Bess’s side.

A. Bess and Pat are playing tennis
B. Pat returned the shuttlecock and is ready for the next hit
C. Bess thinks ahead to the next shot while she plays the game

Why were forests considered dangerous places? Give two details.
English language

The middle section of a personal narrative needs to include

strong examples that highlight the subject’s qualities.
background information that introduces the subject.
effects that the subject has had on the narrator’s life.
information about characters other than the subject.

I can't pick between A and D, they both seem right. Help!

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Read this excerpt:

For example, he never explains precisely what he means by fast food. At times he seems to be talking about junk food delicious but empty calories found in every coffee shop, grocery store and delicatessen in the country. At other times he seems to be talking about any food sold at McDonald's, Burger King or KFC.

Which criterion is Crossen using in this excerpt from "A Culinary Wasteland" to evaluate the book Fast Food Nation?
A. Logic
B. Coherence
C. Organization
D. Clarity of terms

“A Christmas Carol” Scene-By-Scene Comparison

Read the passage.

Yesterday afternoon Margot and I were having a bath here and I said, "Supposing we
were to take the children who are walking past, one by one, hoist them up with a fishing
rod, give them each a bath, wash and mend their clothes, and then ..
Which best explains the meaning of the passage?

Is the
snowflakes fall
trees for sale
gingerbread baking a haiku ?

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, draws on two previous theatrical works: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead follows the "off-stage" exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. While the two main characters in Stoppard's play occasionally make brief appearances in "Hamlet," as scripted in Shakespeare's original tragedy, the majority of the play takes place in other parts of the castle where Hamlet is set. While "off stage" in this way, the characters resemble the main characters in the absurdist Waiting for Godot. As in Beckett's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern pass the time by impersonating other characters, engaging in word play, and remaining silent for long periods of time. These same two characters were also featured in a parody of Hamlet, the short comic play by W. S. Gilbert entitled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Gilbert's play makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern into central characters and alters the storyline of Hamlet.

Which sentence from this passage explains what the main characters do in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? (5 points)

PLEASE HELP THIS IS A MONTH BEHIND ALL BECAUSE I CANT GET THIS QUESTION
Is George Orwell right about people and the way they handle power? In your own words,
explain what Animal Farm suggests about the effect that power has on people. Then, describe
an example from your own life that either supports or contradicts what George Orwell seems to
think about power.

What are the similarities in the A Christmas Carol movie and the book?

Write if the arguement is an appeal to logic , authority, or emotion. In the 1960s the American medical establishment began touting fat as the culprit for cardiovascular disease and obesity. This policy was wrongheaded, reckless, and based on shoddy, discredited studies that foolishly linked fat consumption

Jim slowly opened the blinds. He couldn't believe his eyes! There was more than a foot of snow! He couldn't be more excited for what he hoped would be a snow day. Mrs. Johnson, on the other hand, his science teacher, was extremely disappointed to find all the snow that morning. That meant another day lost for the long awaited science experiment. She hoped they would have enough time to do the experiment in school the next day. What point of view is the passage written in?

Fill in the correct word into the sentence below

The Associated Press is a wire service and a ______
news around the world.

A.Importer B.reporter
C. Portable D.transport

1. What is ironic or humorous about the following sentence?
"Gilray kept pestering me with letters about his chrysanthemum. He seemed to have no faith in me--a detestable
thing in a man who calls himself your friend."