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based on the context of this excerpt from w. w jacobs's "the monkey's paw" what does the word placidly mean?
without the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of laburnam villa the blinds were drawn and the fue burned brightly father and
son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes putting his king into such sharp and
unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire
a
completing a task in a frantic manner
having a particular motive for an action
b.
appearing to be calm and related
acting harshly or stubbornly
d.

Read the passage. “ah, are you digging on my grave my loved one? —planting rue? ” —“no: yesterday he went to wed one of the brightest wealth has bred.” in “ah, are you digging on my grave? ” by thomas hardy, what has happened to the dead woman’s widower? he has moved away. he has remarried. he has come to visit. he has died.

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?

Which sentence has an incorrect shift in pronoun-antecedent agreement? a) each teacher needs to be paired up. b) each man needs to carry his own load. c) each of these women runs their own business. d) each child should bring his or her own lunch.