Answer the following questions.
Cite at least two SPECIFIC passages (pages) of Kolbert’s book "Field Notes from a Catastrophe" to support
your answers. More citations will get you more points, as will depth of thought in your comments.
Include the questions as well as your
answers in a different color font

1. The first major report to definitively conclude that continued increases in carbon dioxide
emissions would result in climate change was released by the National Academy of Sciences in
1979. In 1980, Dr. James Hansen, climatologist with NASA, spoke before Congress to warn and
ask for actions in regard to climate change. Why do you think it is taking so long for politicians
and the general public to become alarmed about this issue?
2. When did you first hear about climate change?
3.When did you first start to worry about it (if you are concerned about it)?
4.The average global temperature has increased 0.8
o
C (1.4
o
F). Is this enough to have any effects
on ecosystems, humans, and other species? If so, what are some of the present effects?
5.What are at least four things can you do to help slow climate change?
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Read the excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. which choice best describes the purpose of this text? to persuade readers to oppose the censorship of literature to inform readers about censorship in a specific country to entertain readers with stories about censorship to motivate readers to speak out against censorship mark this and return

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

In at least 150 words, explain how richard wright use of dialogue in the short story "the man who was almost a man" contributes to the overall meaning of the story.