Stories in the Sky People have always been guided by the stars. Farmers used the stars to decide when to plant or harvest crops. Travelers used stars to guide their journeys. Stars guided people long before maps or computers.

Long ago, people noticed that stars form patterns in the sky. They told stories about these groups of stars, called constellations. These stories used people, animals, or objects to describe the stars, and each story reflected the storyteller’s culture. Most stories come from the ancient Greeks. Today, astronomers recognize eighty-eight constellations.

An illustration shows a constellation. Several stars are connected by lines to form the shape of a cup with a long handle.

The Big Dipper looks like a cup with a long handle. It is part of a larger constellation called Ursa Major. It looks like a bear. In the Greek myth about Ursa Major, Zeus, the king of the gods, changes a woman named Callisto into a bear. Native American stories about this constellation also use a bear. Escaped enslaved workers used this constellation to guide them North. This led to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

The Little Dipper looks like a smaller version of the Big Dipper. It is part of a constellation called Ursa Minor. The stories of the two dippers are related. In the myth, the bear Callisto wanders in the woods. Callisto’s son is hunting. He sees the bear but he does not recognize the bear as his mother. The son is about to kill her when Zeus stops him by turning him into a bear as well. Zeus flings both bears by their tails into the night sky. This unusual detail explains why the bears have long tails.

Bright stars make Orion another easy constellation to find. It can be identified by the three bright stars in Orion’s belt. The Greek myth about Orion tells of a great hunter with a big ego. Orion thinks that he is the best hunter in the world. He brags that he can kill any animal. The goddess of Earth is worried that Orion might harm animals. She sends a scorpion to sting and kill him. Because of this fight, the constellation Scorpius is on the other side of the sky from Orion. This distance keeps Orion and the scorpion from fighting.

Constellations and their stories are interesting. Grab a star chart and go outside. There are many stories waiting to be told.
Why does the author explain how travelers used the stars at the beginning of the article?

A.
to show that stars are pretty to look at in the night sky

B.
to show that stars can show people in which direction to go

C.
to show that stars are the subject of stories told by travelers

D.
to show that stars can be seen only at certain times of the year

d) she is both terrified and excited by the idea of returning to school.

a) she takes one day at a time.

d) she felt like she was an object of ridicule.

d) she tells her daughter not to worry about it because things will get better.\

b) elnora needs money for books and out-of-town tuition. she will raise the money herself.

yes as the core issue is an ever increasing majority of human workers   will become permanently unemployed as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines inevitably replace more expensive human workers with each passing year.

economic growth now and in the future requires that fewer jobs are created for human workers. this is the desirable inevitable consequence. the automation of the jobs of human workers is the most profitable economically productive activity on the planet.

so as a global society we need to have a plan to deal with this inevitable change.

automation has been, is and will always be a friend to human society if human society on a global basis is prepared to deal with the inevitable consequences.

what is key is that automation killing all jobs is only a matter of when not if.

the real question is can we get past the now invalid assumption that most humans can work for a decent wage going forward.

i spent my working career increasing automation and increasing efficiency. this consequently reduces the hours worked by humans while increasing the output economic goods and services at an ever decreasing price.

why not have ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines create the vast majority of required economic goods and services as opposed to human workers?

why not have most human workers working less and retiring earlier?

there is much more to life than working forever.

fortunately, automation has been going on for decades and will continue as an irreversible process as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines permanently replace more costly human workers.

i write this answer for the people that have an open mind and are not living in the past this is what i feel most effectively deals with the tractable issues that automation creates.

the question at hand is how we deal with automation going forward as a society.

automation is only a threat because society has yet to acknowledge automation is happening let alone effectively a having a plan to address it.

a conservative libertarian free market idea where individuals choose what economic goods and services are produced in the free market as the free market supply will respond to free market demand. this is not a centrally planned communist economy.

it is yes as the core issue is an ever increasing majority of human workers   will become permanently unemployed as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines inevitably replace more expensive human workers with each passing year.

economic growth now and in the future requires that fewer jobs are created for human workers. this is the desirable inevitable consequence. the automation of the jobs of human workers is the most profitable economically productive activity on the planet.

so as a global society we need to have a plan to deal with this inevitable change.

automation has been, is and will always be a friend to human society if human society on a global basis is prepared to deal with the inevitable consequences.

what is key is that automation killing all jobs is only a matter of when not if.

the real question is can we get past the now invalid assumption that most humans can work for a decent wage going forward.

i spent my working career increasing automation and increasing efficiency. this consequently reduces the hours worked by humans while increasing the output economic goods and services at an ever decreasing price.

why not have ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines create the vast majority of required economic goods and services as opposed to human workers?

why not have most human workers working less and retiring earlier?

there is much more to life than working forever.

fortunately, automation has been going on for decades and will continue as an irreversible process as ever cheaper ever more intelligent automated machines permanently replace more costly human workers.

i write this answer for the people that have an open mind and are not living in the past this is what i feel most effectively deals with the tractable issues that automation creates.

the question at hand is how we deal with automation going forward as a society.

automation is only a threat because society has yet to acknowledge automation is happening let alone effectively a having a plan to address it.

a conservative libertarian free market idea where individuals choose what economic goods and services are produced in the free market as the free market supply will respond to free market demand. this is not a centrally planned communist economy.

hope this

c. there are many strengths