Read the excerpt from "The Golden Cat." Great is the Golden Cat who treads The Blue Roof Garden o'er our heads, The never tired smiling One That Human People call the Sun. He stretches forth his paw at dawn And though the blinds are closely drawn His claws peep through like Rays of Light, To catch the fluttering Bird of Night. What is the meaning of the figurative language in lines 5 and 6? The drawn blinds hide the night from the cat. The cat paws at the blinds to let in the light. The sun pushes aside the night as if it were blinds. The sun rises at the edge of the dark sky.

Chan was leading a group discussion in his university. he discovered that a few participants were dominating the discussion and not letting others speak. what should chan do in such a situation a. chan should allow participants to speak until they are finished b. chan should adjourn the discussion and recommence at a later point c. chan should bar the dominant participants have the freedom to share their opinion d. chan should ensure that all participants have the freedom to share their opinion e. chan should restructure the group so that the dominant participants are isolated

30 points and brainlest answer if righta just got divorced, he losted his house, his keys, and his phone. what did he lose first?

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these