Which best describes the conflict between scrooge and the two charity men in "stave i: marley's ghost"?
a. the men want scrooge to provide cratchit with better pay and working conditions, but scrooge insists that cratchit is lucky to have a job at all and should be grateful.
b. the men want scrooge to take down marley's name from the countinghouse, but scrooge insists on leaving it up because it is good for business.
c. the men want scrooge to give money to the poor, but scrooge insists that the prisons and workhouses can provide the poor with basic necessities.
d. the men want scrooge to go to christmas dinner with them, but scrooge insists that anyone who celebrates christmas is a fool.

Which element in the room does the narrator in the yellow wallpaper focus on through much of the story

Is "they" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.