how does hardship threaten billie jo's emotional survival?

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Answer 1
Meet Billie Jo Kelby, a fourteen-year-old girl living in Cimarron County, Oklahoma with her mom, a homemaker, and her dad, a farmer. While there's peace in their small family, she hasn't exactly been living the dream. Her dad was expecting a boy and got her instead, which has kept their relationship strained, and on top of that, his farm is in decline due to the drought and dust storms. Things are about to change in a big way, though, as Ma has recently learned that she's going to have a baby.

Ma taught Billie Jo to play the piano when she was young, and it's since grown into a huge passion for her. Arley Wanderdale, a music manager who gives lessons at her school, takes a special interest in her talent, inviting her to play for local shows and even go on tour with him, his band the Black Mesa Boys, and crooning heartthrob Mad Dog Craddock. In spite of her shared love for the piano, though, Ma is kind of cagey about her playing professionally, which creates tension between the two of them.
Just when things are opening up for Billie Jo's own music career, tragedy strikes. While making breakfast, Ma mistakes a bucket of kerosene for water and pours it on the stove. She runs outside with the intention of coming back in, but Billie Jo, unaware of this, throws the flaming bucket of kerosene outside at the moment she returns, catching Ma on fire.
Billie Jo tries to smother the flames with her hands, badly burning them in the process. A few days later, Ma dies giving birth to a baby boy, whom Daddy names Franklin (as in Roosevelt). Billie Jo struggles with anger toward both herself and Daddy for what happened.

Billie Jo and Daddy struggle to fill the void left by Ma and the baby. Daddy starts digging an enormous hole for an irrigation pond Ma suggested he try to make and enrolls in some night school classes in case the farm goes under; meanwhile, Billie Jo attempts to find ways to break the silence between them and deal with her emotions about what happened. Life, however, is one giant, constant reminder of what she's lost, especially when a migrant family joins her school and the mother gives birth to a baby girl.
While her hands are in such pain that playing piano is difficulty, Billie Jo still tries. She accepts Arley's invitation to play at a dance show and even wins third prize in a talent competition. Even music, though, has lost the joy it used to bring her; life eventually wears her down so much that when she's invited to play at graduation ceremonies, she only sits there and can't play a note.
We'd like to say that things gradually start getting better for Daddy and Billie Jo, but they don't. Daddy's wheat crops continue to experience the onslaught of the dust storms, and although his own father died of skin cancer, Daddy chooses to ignore some spots that start showing up on his skin rather than get them treated. When Billie Jo realizes that he would rather die and abandon her than continue to face the future without Ma, she decides to leave home.

Billie Jo hitches a ride on a boxcar traveling west, and on her journey, she meets up with a man who left his wife and children in hopes of finding a better way to provide for them. Her encounter with the man makes her realize that getting away from Oklahoma isn't the answer—she can't abandon her father and the only home she knows—instead she needs to learn to grow there, just like the wheat. She gets off the train in Arizona and places a call to the local store for someone to let Daddy know she's coming home.
Daddy meets her at the station and things immediately begin to improve. They start talking openly about everything that's happened and Billie Jo convinces him to get his skin examined. The doctor cuts out the spots in hopes of stopping the cancer, and advises Billie Jo to start using her hands again to help them heal.
Just as Billie Jo and Daddy start to heal their relationship, another big development happens: Daddy's lady friend, Louise, comes to dinner. She was his teacher in the night school class and the two really hit it off. While she's happy for her dad, Billie Jo struggles with how much she wants to let Louise into her life; Louise is understanding of this though, and doesn't try to force her way into the family. Instead, she kindly listens to Billie Jo's story and gradually wins her over.

On Thanksgiving, Daddy asks Louise to marry him. She gives him a second mule for an engagement gift, and he makes plans to diversify his crop selection and try some new farming techniques. Billie Jo loves Louise and looks forward to her visits, as well as the day she and Daddy get married. She enjoys playing piano for them, having finally let herself heal enough to return to her love of music.





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Passage 1

[1]Nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the
tree yuccas.Tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that
triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the Sierras and coastwise hills. The
yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old
[5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. After its death, which is
slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even
the moonlight fearful. But it isn't always this way. Before the yucca has come to flower, while
yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of
sugary sap, the Indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their
[10] own delectation.

Passage 2

[1]I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
[5]Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
[10]Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
[15]A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
[20]In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Both passages describe a plant. The yucca tree "stalks drearily" while the daffodil "dances." What does this word choice reveal about how the two passages view nature?

Passage 1 views nature as boring while Passage 2 views natures as exciting.
Passage 1 views nature as enlightening while Passage 2 views nature as depressing.
Passage 1 views nature as harsh while Passage 2 views nature as delightful.
Passage 1 views nature as intense while Passage 2 views nature as relaxing.

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Answer:

A stone castle from the Middle Ages

Explanation:

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Plan as you will, you never really know.

Some people seem to have that lucky streak,
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Don't you just wish sometimes you had the key
that let you do what you would like to do,
and find some luck intended just for you?
really to be where you would like to be?

Don't waste your time writing some master plan.
Spit in fate's eye, and grab life while you can.

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Answer:

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lambic pentameter has __ feet in meter.

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

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b) there are fictional characters in it.
c) it was written to be performed in front of an audience.
d) None of the choices are correct.

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C) It was written to be performed in front of an audience.
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What is drama literature?

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Write an essay on "Importance of Family".​

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Answer:

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An essay on the importance of family

What is a family?

A family is a group of people related by blood. The family is primarily made up father, mother and their children.

The family is the smallest unit of an institution responsible for caring for each other emotionally, physically, socially, psychologically and spiritually.

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D:Generous

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Answer:

A. caring

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because this Christmas that shows kindness and concern for others that saying of god

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Answer:
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noun

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Answer:

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Answer:

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A.
rain

B.
worried

C.
harsh

D.
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E.
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Answer:

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C. hARsh

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22 Answer:
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a. subject c. adjective
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The museum plans to display a number of rugs in its new
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Hanging all of those rugs for display will be quite a job.
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b. direct object d. part of a verb phrase
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c. created
26 Answer:
The past participle of BUY
a. to buy
b. buying
c. bought
27 Answer:
The gerund formed from DESIGN
a. designing
b. designed
c. to design
28 Answer:
The present participle of DISPLAY
a. to display
b. displaying
c. displayed

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Answer:

21:b 22:d 23:a 24:a 25:b 26:c 27:b 28:a

Answer:

21: c(?)

22:  a(?)

23: b

24: d

25: a

26: c

27: a

28: a

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Explain the stages of the design process in your own words​

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What are the two main types of verbs?
(There are two answers)
A) Action verb
B) Adverb
C)Helping Verb
D) Linking Verb

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Answer:

B and d

Explanation:

Action verb and helping verb is not a thing

Answer:

linking and action verbs.

Explanation:

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Identify the Object Pronoun: "Without hesitation, Peter picked the dynamite off the ground and threw it as far as he could."
• Peter
• Dynamite
• Ground
• It

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Answer: Dynamite

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25) You have been assigned to write an essay on poisonous plants. Which background reading would be most helpful as you formulate your ideas for a first draft? A) an article explaining why some people react to poison oak and poison ivy B) an autobiography of a young girl raised in the fertile plains of Iowa C) a how-to book describing how to plant and care for a vegetable garden D) a persuasive essay about why "going green" is essential for the environment

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Answer:

it is answer choice a since poison oak and poison ivy are poisonous plants, thus being relevant to the subject

Answer:

A

Explanation:

If the essay is about poisonous plants, you would read more information about poisonous plants.

Does warranty mean to fix any item you have if it breaks or replace it with a new one???

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Answer:

Warranty means a written guarantee, issued to the purchaser of an article by its manufacturer, promising to repair or replace it if necessary within a specified period of time.

Explanation:

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Neoclear power is neither safe nor clean .

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Answer:

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What three aspects of the beauty of nature does Emerson delineate in Part III? How does he use simile and metaphor to develop the first aspect? How do the rhetorical questions in paragraph 20 serve to develop the second aspect?

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Answer:

1. Emerson now outlines three main points concerning our use of nature's beauty: its medicinal qualities, its spiritual elements, and its intellectual properties.

2. This metaphor shows how humans and nature act differently. Emerson says that humans are “ashamed” of their own thoughts and feelings, and he then goes on to point out that nature is never “ashamed.” He calls for humans to return to their natural state and to stop overthinking and worrisome behaviour.

I do apologise, but I do not have the answer to your third question.

Emerson actually delineates the following beauty of nature:

Spiritual elementsMedicinal qualitiesIntellectual properties.

Emerson uses simile and metaphor to develop the first aspect by showing how humans and nature act in different ways.

What is simile?

Simile is known as a figure of speech which refers to the way two things are compared. Simile actually uses "as" and "like" to compare things. Metaphor is also a figure of speech that is used to compare things.

We can see that Emerson delineates the beauty of nature in Part III.

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Summary of A Tale of Two Cities chapter 1,2,3,4

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Answer:

Chapter 1: The Period

The year is 1775 and the settings are London and Paris, two lands ruled by monarchs. England is on the brink of the American Revolution. The French Revolution seems inevitable, with trees waiting to be converted to guillotines and the spirit of rebellion silently infecting the countryside. Similar disturbances are common across England, with highway robberies on the increase and thievery reaching all the way into high society. Executions are common for both minor and major offenses.

Chapter 2: The Mail

Mr. Jarvis Lorry, a confidential clerk at Tellson's Bank of London, is on his way to Dover in a mail-coach. It is a cold night and he is wrapped up to the ears, so his physical appearance is concealed from his fellow-passengers, all of whom are strangers. The coachman fears his passengers just as they fear one another, since highway robberies are exceedingly common and any of them could be in league with robbers. So when he hears a horse galloping towards the coach on the road, he becomes fearful.

Jerry Cruncher, the rider of the horse, asks for Mr. Lorry, giving him a paper message to wait at Dover for a young lady. Mr. Lorry's cryptic reply is, "recalled to life." After this exchange, Mr. Lorry gets back in the coach, which continues to Dover. Jerry pauses and reflects on the long, hard gallop he had from London and muses to himself that he has been given a very strange message.

Chapter 3: The Night Shadows

The chapter opens with a reflection on the fact that all humans are mysteries to one another, despite the availability of their outer appearances. The three passengers remain a mystery to one another as they advance upon Dover. Jerry Cruncher returns to Temple Bar remaining uneasy about the cryptic message.

Mr. Lorry dozes off and begins to dream in the coach, imagining the comforting environment of Tellson's Bank. He is then confronted by what he calls a spectre: a man who has been buried for eighteen years and has dug his way out. A conversation that Mr. Lorry's brain repeats three times with this spectre confirms that he has been buried for eighteen years. As the sun rises, Mr. Lorry wakes up from his dream and surveys the vivid countryside, pitying a man who would be locked away from nature for eighteen years.

Chapter 4: The Preparation

Mr. Lorry arrives in Dover in the mail coach, settles in, and takes his breakfast alone in the coffee-room. A conversation with a waiter establishes that Tellson's Bank operates both in London and Paris, but Mr. Lorry has not traveled to Paris for fifteen years. Mr. Lorry finishes his breakfast, strolls by the ocean, and then returns for a bottle of claret. His peace is disrupted by a lady referred to as Mam'selle (Miss Manette), who requests to see him immediately.

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