Solve the following mini-mysteries on your own using your own nativereasoning abilities, and then based on what you have learned, explain how you know deductive rather than inductive reasoning is used in each case. 1. Either Moriarty was the murderer, or Stapleton was the murderer. If Stapleton was the murderer, then traces of phosphorus should have been found on the body. No traces of phosphorus were found on the body. Whodunnit?2. The murder did not occur in the library. If Adler was the murderer, then the weapon was a revolver. Either Hope was the murderer, or Adler was the murderer. If Hope was the murderer, then the murder took place in the library. Whodunnit? With what weapon?3. The murder was not committed on the moor. If Windibank was the murderer, then the weapon was a rope. Either Windibank was the murderer, or Calhoun was the murderer. If the weapon was a rope, then the murder was committed on the downs. If Calhoun was the murderer, then the weapon was a crowbar. If the weapon was a crowbar, then the murder was committed on the moor. Whodunnit? With what weapon? Where was the murder committed?

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the part where he says my friends

a foil character shows contrast with the qualities of another character. to emphasize the traits of the other character is the main objective. cassius is a foil to brutus, and brutus is a foil to antony. both cassius and antony conspire to kill caesar, but cassius is more prone to treachery than brutus is. thus, easily gives in to his evil ambition. brutus is a foil to antony because brutus’s honesty and simplicity are in clear contrast to antony’s qualities of deception and over-ambition.

because it’s a name of something popular we’ll know place