Since the shelter-in-place and stay-at-home order, we have been taking so many walks and hikes. Urban hiking is one of my favorite things to do. We have been to San Francisco more than once just to walk the hilly streets; it’s beautiful but can be crowded, even during the stay-at-home orders. The last time we went we saw a flock of wild green parrots they were perched on top of the pine trees at a park in Nob Hill. This is a true story at some point someone’s pair of pet green parrots escaped now there is a flock in San Francisco they look out-of-place and spectacular, but you have to know where to find them and also have a little luck. Yesterday, in the park by my home in San Jose neighbors spotted a bald eagle,(that’s unheard of, in all my years living in San Jose almost 30 years I have never seen a bald eagle in the city). I have seen golden eagles on my drive to Gilroy, and I have even seen a condor flying over the Gavilan campus once, but I have never seen a bald eagle. I am not sure what may have brought this magnificent bird into a busy part of the city my best guess is that all the people walking and riding their bikes in the park nowadays have scared off other predators, like coyotes, which are not uncommon in San Jose, and the eagle can more easily catch the snakes and rodents. I am hoping the eagle is there again today when I go out on my walk.

(4) what has fields argued in his case before the supreme court?

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

What structure does the poet employ in the first stanza of "the second coming"? a) he gives examples that point to a problem of lost innocence in modern society. b) he warns of an effect that results from avoiding traditional customs. c) he compares and contrasts innocence and violence. d) he argues that society promotes its problems.