diane has a goal of becoming fluent in chinese by the time she graduates with a
degree in linguistics. she has been taking chinese classes and reading chinese news
websites for two years in preparation for a study abroad program in beijing. however,
the semester before she is scheduled to start her study abroad program, the program's
funding is cut, resulting in the program's cancellation. which of the following is the best
way for diane to deal with this setback?
a. she should go on a study abroad program to japan instead
b. she should continue her chinese classes and reading chinese news sites.
c. she should find a native chinese speaker to tutor her or possibly even be her
roommate.

Why should college athletes not get paid for playing state the claim a: point a b. direct quotation to support point a c.point b . direct quotation to support point b

[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 why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

What is the victorian theme in the poem “beautiful city” by alfred, lord tennyson? beautiful city, the centre and crater of european confusion, o you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity, how often your re-volution has proven but e-volution roll’d again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! a. civil unrest b. revolution c. confusion d. social justice