Would be completely welcome there instantly, the small basket descended to the
ground, one of the star women got out and
Algon escorted her to his village. There, his
people welcomed her to their earth world,
and she began to live a pleasant life among
them
One characteristic of myths, including those of
the Algonquins, is the blending of fantastic
events with the natural world.
Look on pages 2 and 3. Click on the underlined
phrase that BEST shows the storyteller's use of
fantastic ovents,
Before many moons had passed. Algon and
the woman married, and in time, they had a
300. The woman deatly loved her husband
and her son, but she began to yearn for her
home and the other star women. One day she
made a basket like the one that had first
delivered her to the earth, walked far out on
the prairie, and stepped inside the basket
with her son
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[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

Which is one of the reasons that swift gives for his proposal? a.) the threat of harvesting babies would engourage stronger discipline among the young b.) thereis a famine inthe land, nd the children are plentiful c.) the meat of the irish infandts goes well with many dofferent vegetables d.) children would become valuable property

Write a speech about a current practice - anything people commonly do in society today - that you think the people of the future will see as a form of discrimination. what are some practices that are legal today that you think limit people's rights? do you yourself feel you're being treated unfairly?