In “star food” dade’s father and mother expect very different things from him. as a result, dade is often unsure how to act: should he gaze at the sky, or should he work in the store? the way that dade deals with the shoplifter readers see the conflict dade he is experiencing. do you agree with how dade handles the shoplifter? explain why or why not. your response should be 35 to 70 words long.

Poe’s narrator describes usher’s mind, as being able to “pour forth..darkness” as if it were an “inherent positive quality.” what is the significance of poe’s metaphor? and what does it suggest about the human tendency to project one’s thoughts or emotions?

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)