- Poor economic performance led citizens to question Tokyo's ability to restart the economy, while its failure to reverse growing income inequality and-poverty led the public to believe it was indifferent to their hardships. Source: Newsweek In this sentence .indifferent means: expressing or resulting from sympathy or compassion able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering having a strong belief or conviction showing no care or concern in attitude or action
- pet Les/reigles phraje de la semaine intermationala du jew ont été/modifiées par la commission athlètes et de rendre une meilleure securité pour les bous les participants. 1. Définis les metog en gras t phrases Modifiées: Changer une chose sans en alfepes la nabu l'essence. Rofin: Marquent l'intention, le but Athletes fcedextqui combattaigat dans les jeux publics. équitable: Qui a de l'équite. Analyse tous les mots (classes grammaticales)
- Read the excerpt from "First Generation" of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia. She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Lider, a star pitcher in his youth,narrowly missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds.Frustrated, El Lider went home rested his pitching arm and started a revolution in the mountains. Which best explains how Garcia's word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt? Garcia uses short, forceful words to assert a pessimistic opinion on fate. Garcia uses formal, academic language and location words to suggest a theory about fate. Garcia uses American baseball terminology to suggest fate's defeat. Garcia uses words with positive connotations to suggest an optimistic outlook on fate.
- Gambetta and Hertog write about a particular mind-set among engineers that disdains ambiguity and compromise. In the sentence above disdains has the same or almost the same meaning as: despises craves imparts defends Source:
- I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room . If it helps any,I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. Read the excerpt from "Mericans." Micaela, you may wait outside with Alfredito and Enrique. The awful grandmother says it all in Spanish, which I understand when I'm paying akention. "What?" I say though it's neither proper not polite. Which idea is true of the speakers in both excerpts? They feel a tension between their cultural heritage and American identity They wish their families were native to the United States They feel more connected to their cultural heritage than to American culture. They are bilingual and move easily from one culture to another.
