Read the excerpt from a folktale. the frog worried he would never get out of the bucket of cream. he began to swim in despair, kicking and churning as he croaked. before long, he realized that the thick cream had turned into butter. he put his strong back feet on a slippery mound of butter and jumped right out of the bucket! which theme can be found in this excerpt? small problems often have very complicated solutions. keep working through problems and a solution will be found. eating butter may be very good for an animal’s health. frogs are better at solving problems than human beings.

Which statement is the most accurate summary of this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich?

Read the sentence from last lecture by randy pausch. all right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because i spent a lot of time talking about that and i’m really not interested. pausch tells his audience this because he wants them to know that

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?