Which of these opening lines is the strongest for a personal narrative? my name is tom. i spent the summer working at country fried chicken. i had to stand outside in a chicken suit passing out coupons. "tom? is that you? " she asked. i awkwardly turned my balky, feathered head towards the voice and groaned inside. it was erin; the cutest girl in my grade, and i happened to be in the middle of my shift dressed as a giant chicken. i wanted to get a job for the summer and, oh boy, did i get one! it was humiliating, but i was able to save money for college. mr. wilkins pulled me aside. i thought he was going to compliment me on my work. instead, he showed me a giant chicken suit. my first reaction was, "i am not going to wear that thing! "

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.

In at least one hundred words discuss how tradition vs change is a theme in things fall apart

Annotate the following passage from franklin d roosevelt's inaugural address. be sure and include the following: a title that summarizes the passage notes in the margin or below the paragraph, perhaps including questions to which you'd like answers question marks or asterisks marking important information the underlining of important information any other marks or notes to you understand the passage in such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. they concern, god, only material things. values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.