15 points

respond to these questions. cite evidence from the text to support your positions.

story: this is what it means to say phoenix, arizona

what is the story saying about friendship?

how is the story’s theme revealed through the actions of the characters and the changes the characters undergo?

how is the theme revealed through the words, images, and symbols that the author uses?

what other works have you read or seen that address similar themes or that employ language, images, and symbols in similar ways?

How dose religion today compared to the puritans idea of religion

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

What is a mechanism by which organisms maintain homeostasis when the level of one substance influences the level of another substance or the activity of an organ.