King claudius and queen gertrude are talking to hamlet's old friends, rosencrantz and guildenstern about hamlet's transformation. they hope two of hamlet's friends could discover the cause behind hamlet's continuing depression or at least cheer him up. then polonius enters, telling the king that the ambassador from norway has returned. besides, he has found the source of hamlet's lunacy. the two ambassadors report the domestic situation in norway. later, polonius declares that the prince is mad with love for ophelia and shows the letter from hamlet. he then states that he wants to test his theory. knowing that hamlet often walks alone in the halls of the castle, he devises a plan where he could hide behind the curtain as ophelia talks to hamlet. then, polonius encounters hamlet. he attempts to talk to hamlet, but hamlet's responses seem to be very strange. polonius leaves, and hamlet meets with rosencrantz and guildenstern. he detects that the king and the queen order them to visit him. they soon confess, and tell hamlet that an acting crew has come to the castle, visiting hamlet. hamlet then requests one of the actors to perform a monologue. he declares that the murder of gonzago will be performed the next night.

The war of the worlds by h. g. wells but, looking, i presently saw something stirring within the then something resembling a little gray snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air toward me – and then another the war of the worlds (radio broadcast) by orson welles good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. now it's another one, and another. they look like tentacles to me. which sentence best describes the tone of the passage from the book compared to the passage from the radio broadcast? a. the book has a more matter-of-fact tone, b. the book has an angrier tone. c. the book has a scarier tone. d. the book has a more surprised tone.

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”