Read the supporting text from "disease control" and the passage from when birds get flu by john diconsiglio.

in 1958, scientists at the cdc made their first trip overseas. a team went to southeast asia to respond to an epidemic of smallpox and cholera.

since then, the cdc has been active throughout the world, following infectious [diseases] such as smallpox, polio, tuberculosis, aids, and sars.

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so where did this killer flu come from? in 2005, researchers at the cdc announced that it had probably started off as a bird flu and then jumped to humans.

does that sound familiar? the spanish flu is very similar to the bird flu we see today. some scientists believe it’s the same strain of influenza.

what do these two passages have in common?

How does gregor change from the beginning to the end of the story?

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.