Which of the following scenarios most clearly symbolizes time?
a. i looked at my hand and saw a strange black mark. i tried to rub it, but the stain wouldn't come off!
b. saachi tried to hold onto the sand, but it steadily flowed out between his fingers until it was gone.
c. the hawk launched from the branch and soared into the open sky.
d. winded, i looked up at the mile marker. i had been running for six whole miles.

symbols are often used in writing to generate an effect on the reader. usually, they are used to paint in easy terms a difficult or abstract idea. one such abstract concept that has always entranced writers is that of time and its passage, simply because time is insubstantial and yet it marks the lives of every living thing. many writers have used several symbols to paint time, but the most common is the painting of time´s passage. one such symbol, most commonly used, is the sand clock, used in ancient times as a way to mark passage of time and often portrayed in writings of different types and genres. option b is the correct one because it not only symbolizes precisely the sand clock, which was a means to measure time, but it symbolizes the passage of it because the sand trickled between his fingers, meaning that time was running away from this person.

answer is b. sacci tried to hold onto the sand, but it steadily flowed out between his fingers until it was gone.

write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrators’ schools and explain how their schools shape their perspectives toward the hijab. cite evidence from the text to support your ideas.

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two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrator's schools would be this, the one school with the veil is the one school were the students were forced to wear the veils, and they did not know why they had to wear the veils. the girl student writing the story was not like the other students, she didn't care. in the second school there was a lot of hostile activities going on throughout the school. most of the students were upset and this, including the author, but she was trying to look and the good side of things.  

overall, both schools had something that the students or most of the students did not like or appreciate. what you can learn from these stories is that life will never be exactly how you may want it to be. complaining about your lifestyle will only make matters worse or at least feel worse in the long run. that's happens to be the information you can interpret from these two stories.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.