Write a brief story (one or two paragraphs) about some aspect of your family’s heritage or history. you could write about something that happened to you or your family, your traditions, where your family comes from, where you were born, where you have lived, or some other aspect of you or your family that you want to reveal. use the autobiography rubric found in the essential documents to you evaluate your story. follow your teacher’s instruction for submitting your work.

What does water to a paste meaning?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Which excerpt is an example of a claim of policy from compulsory voting an idea whose time has come