Barrett has been invited to attend an important baseball camp over the summer, but his mother, who works two jobs to support the family, tells him that they simply don't have the money to send him. Barrett is devastated, but he won't give up on his dream and decides to start mowing lawns to earn the money himself. He goes to the Mitchells' house first and knocks on the door. His teammate Kai answers, and he is not happy to see Barrett. Kai plays ball on Barrett's team, but he has not been invited to the summer camp and is still upset. Barrett wishes Kai's sister, Charise, or his father had answered the door. At least they would be reasonable. Barrett presses on anyway and offers his lawn-mowing services to Kai. Kai snickers and says they don't need their lawn cut. Barrett looks at the Mitchells' overgrown front lawn and knows Kai is lying, but he shrugs his shoulders and leaves to visit the next house. There are plenty of houses on his street; he'll earn that money somehow. What are the conflicts in this story? How do Barrett's actions move the plot forward? What does Barrett's response to the conflict tell you about his character?

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir