Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative.

in "goodbye to all that," joan didion writes that the days before she "knew the names of all the bridges were happier than the ones that came later."

which evidence from the text best supports the idea that her first years in new york were better than her last years in the city?

"i never bought any furniture in new york. for a year or so i lived in other people’s apartments; after that i lived in the nineties in an apartment furnished entirely with things taken from storage by a friend whose wife had moved away."

"nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something i had never before seen or done or known about."

"the white rose bars opened very early in the morning; i recall waiting in one of them to watch an astronaut go into space, waiting so long that at the moment it actually happened i had my eyes not on the television screen but on a cockroach on the tile floor."

"temporary exiles who always knew when the flights left for new orleans or memphis or richmond or, in my case, california. someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar."

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.

Symbols readers understand the larger theme of a story one of the major the of joyce araby is the urge to escape daily like which symbol in the story contributes most to this theme and why

Read this passage from the online article “top 10 reasons why everyone is doing yoga” by kathryn livingston. what type of propaganda is the author using? why are so many people doing yoga these days? there must be more to it than endorphins; there has to be a deeper reason why 20 million plus americans have fallen in love with this venerable practice. here is my top ten list – and if you’re a yogi, i’m sure you can think of more.