What is the reading strategy or "questioning the text" when reading "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Questioning the text is a most important skill!  When you read a fabulous story, like Connell's, you have to ask yourself, "Why would a very famous big game hunter be hunted by another human?"  If you continue to read on and keep asking that important question, the text will draw you to the answer; "Because sometimes we become what we live."  Why a scary, ominous castle?  (That indicates something is very wrong.)  Why such aristocratic etiquette in a remote place?  (That indicates things aren't what they appear.)  Why is this story being narrated by a third person?  We know that 3rd person gives the author room to make dramatic changes easily because we aren't tied to a character. (That indicates that there will be severe changes in the story; for instance, Zaroff the hunter, becomes the hunted.)  Keep asking those questions!  The author has all of the answers.  All you have to do is find them!

What is the role of transportation?

Tricky question.  I think the most important role belongs to Gatsby's car.  His car is used as the vehicle (pun intended!) for creating the last conflict of the story.  We've been shown this dirty, dingy, gray road where nothing lively or exciting happens between the Eggs and the City.  It's been presented simply as a road that's there and traveled upon.  Only the appearance of Myrtle breaks the monotony of this well traveled road.  Then, without warning, the single incident that leads to the end of every character occurs along this very road.

Fitzgerald certainly does a nice job setting us up for it, though.  Throughout the novel we see various modes of travel that are simply used as travel.  We don't expect the car ride home to be the horrible conflict; we expected the conversation that would be had once everyone reached home to be the conflict.

What are the dramatic functions of each act in The Crucible?

This play consists of three acts, divided primarily by the
passing of time and the momentum of the witch trials in Salem.  Each act takes place in
one day, though what happens in the interim is explained; and each act is a mini-drama
of its own.

Act I depicts the source of the trouble, the
cause of the witch hunts.  Miller introduces us not only to each character but also to
the antecedent action (that which happened before the story began).  We understand the
environment which exists as well as the paranoia and suspicion which will soon breed
such despicable things. The conflicts become evident; the alliances begin to form; and
the battle lines (both spiritual and physical) are
drawn.

Act II takes place eight days later, once the trials
have begun.  The protagonist, John Proctor, has not been privvy to any of the action
going on in town, so others must inform him of the hysteria that has struck Salem.  In
this act we watch broken trust get painfully rebuilt and broken again; the motive of the
primary instigator, Abigail, is horribly confirmed; and our hope that this is just some
kind of ridiculous over-reaction evaporates in the face of alarming false accusations. 
The climax of this act happens in the courtroom, when John tells the truth but is not
believed, and his wife Elizabeth lies but is taken as truthful.  Despite the fact that
we all know the witch trials did end in a relatively short amount of time, there is
little hope that the characters we have developed relationships with will survive the
ordeal.

Act III is set in another season, probably several
months after Act II ends.  The hopelessness we feared has come to pass; and, though they
are still alive, the primary characters in the play are facing an imminent and
undeserved death.  Dramatically, the moment when Proctor denies his confession and cries
out "I have given you my soul; leave me my name!" is both awful and amazing.  This
reversal represents the hope, at last, that common sense may once again rule in Salem. 
And, even though at least twenty innocent people lost their lives in the hysteria, the
few we feel we know died as upright citizens and people of
faith.   

Describe the kind of relationship between orchids and trees, and explain why it can be classified as such.Many tropical orchids are epiphytes that...

I guess you would describe the relationship between
epiphytic orchids and the trees they grow on as one of commensalism. Commensalism means
that one organism in a relationship benefits, and the other is unaffected. Epiphytic
orchids grow on trees, but use them just for support. They do not obtain energy or
nutrients from the trees. Water and nutrients are obtained from the air, and from
compost on the trees. There are also terrestrial orchids, which are a different
type.

Help writing a synthesis essay for AP English Language and Composition. It is last years synthesis essay, and it's due today! (oops)I'm...

Indeed, the 2009 AP English Language and Composition
synthesis essay prompt is about space exploration:

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"Explorers and tales of explorations tend to
capture the human imagination.  However, such explorations have financial and ethical
consequences.  Space exploration is no
exception."

There is a list
of eight sources that accompany the prompt--you do not need to use all the sources in
your essay, but three to four are reasonable.  Keep in mind that your ARGUMENT should be
the central part of the essay--only uses the sources to SUPPORT the argument you make
about space exploration.

Follow the link below directly to
the College Board's AP Central website.  Here you can find the prompt, the exact
sources, the scoring rubric, and student sample essays that have been scored by the
College Board readers.  They also include comments on why essays have received the
scores that they did.  You should be able to get an idea about what the College Board
(and your teacher) is looking for in the synthesis essay.

What are some examples from the text and explanations showing Julius Caesar's ambition?Cite any explanations from the play Julius Caesar

In Julius Caesar, when Caesar espies
Cassius, he becomes anxious about his power being threatened; he tells
Antony,

Let
me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek-headed men, and
such as sleep a-nights.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry
look;

He thinks too much:  such men are dangerous....Such
men as he be never at heart's ease

Whiles they behold a
greater than themselves
(l.2.198-215)

In Act I, also,
Casca tells Brutus that Caesar refused a crown three times when Marc Antony offered it
to them.

...I
saw Mark Antony offer him a crown--and, as I told you, he put it by once; but for all
that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it.  Then he offered it to him again; then
he put it by again; but to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. 
And then he offered it the third time.  He put it the third time by; and still as he
refused it, the rabblement hooted, and clapped their copt hands, and threw up their
sweaty
nightcaps....(1.2.241-250)

If
Caesar were not hungry for power, he would not make such a show of refusing the crown,
Casca argues.  Casca states that Caesar has fallen in the market place,
but

before he
fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked
me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut.....When he came to himself again,
he said, if he had done or said anything amiss, he desired their worships to think it
was his
infirmity.(1.2.267-274)

Cassius
contends that Caesar's theatrics are meant to trick the people, in his desire to win the
people over in his desire for property.  Cassius blames the people for allowing Caesar
to become so powerful:

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...if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they
would have done no less.
(1.2.277)

Anxiety about
anyone else who looks eager for advancement, dramatic about being the "mighty Caesar" of
the people--these are the arguments that Cassius and Casca use to convince Brutus that
Caesar desires to be powerful, words to convince Brutus that Caesar will become a
tyrant.

Why is the geography of The Kite Runner important? What ways did all of the characters travel during the book for any reason?

In the book The Kite Runnergeography
plays an important role. The book opens with Amir living in San
Francisco.  He has lived there for awhile with his father, but he
receives a call from an old friend.  He then begins to think back on his
childhood.

The boy Amir begins his youth living in
Kabul,
Afghanistan.  He grows up with a  father who
has a comfortable amount of money and can afford a nice home and even to help build an
orphanage.  However, the country Afghanistan has been through a lot of government
turmoil and this is reflected in the book.

Amir and his
father visit relatives in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.  Where he wakes up in the night and
states out loud "I saw Hassan raped, " but no one hears
him.

After the country was becoming dangerous between the
Russians and the Afghani’s Amir and Baba fled.  They initially went to Mahipar and from
there to Jalalabad.  They traveled to Pagahan.  Then they go to
Peshwar; Pakahastan.

Eventually they move to San
Franciscowhere they begin a new life, but Amir has to return to his homeland.  He
returns to Kaka Kahn in Peshwar and then ahs to go with a driver back o Kabul to try
 and rescue Sohrab, Hassan's son.