The continent measures 3,300 miles at its widest point—from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the Pacific Coast. From Alaska to Mexico, the continent extends 4,900 miles. Europe is made up of many small nations. Unlike it, North America is composed of only three large nations: Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Which opening sentence best states the main idea of the paragraph?

A.

North America stretches "from sea to shining sea."

B.

Mexico is well-known for having dry, hot summers.

C.

Those countries have many people and different climates.

D.

Canada is the largest country in North America.

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

Gatsby comment that nick looks familiar to him. what surprising connection do they have?

The image of the observation balloons moving across the sunset is created using -no adjectives -few adjectives -many adjectives