After reading hard times, what conclusion does charles dickens want the reader to draw about the kind of people who will be the products of mr. gradgrind’s educational system? a. they will be anxious and have low self-esteem. b. they will be well educated but boring. c. they will be close-minded and unable to think on their own. d. they will make contributions to science but not to other fields.

Which website most likely provides reliable information about climate change?

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

And a work of fiction what is the term for the series of events that build towards the climax