8. Jared got off the train from his small farm village. He was now in the big city. An unshaven man with a trench coat with several holes in it approached Jared and told him that he was a police officer and
that he needed to see Jared's wallet. Jared did not think that the man looked like a police officer, but he
didn't want to get arrested on his first day in the city, so Jared reached into the front pocket of his
overalls and gave the man his wallet. The man promptly ran away leaving Jared with no money,
What character trait does Jared demonstrate?
Explain your answer by referencing the text.

Read the claim from an argumentative essay. graffiti art deserves to be treated like "real” art because, like other types of art, it has its own unique style, contains artistic elements like color and composition, and expresses the emotions and viewpoints of the artists. which statement offers the best evidence to support the claim? the use of spray paint to create original lettering has art critics impressed. one art professor said, “actually, graffiti art isn’t on our curriculum this year.” “i prefer classic art, but i’ve seen a lot of graffiti art,” said a gallery owner. last year, our art class took a walking tour of graffiti art in a nearby city.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

How did the industrial revolution shape the beliefs of the romantics