Choose one of the following questions based on Kafka's story and write 250 words then write an additional 100-150 words that explain how R. Crumbs' version adapts this aspect of the story. For example, if you answer #1, the second part of your journal would focus on the illustration and what is included in the images that convey a similar perspective or portray it differently. 1. What evidence suggests that the hunger artist in Kafka’s story symbolizes the artist in a more general sense? How does the story characterize “the artist,” her/his relationship to art, toward her/his audience?

2. Given the other connotations or reasons for fasting in our culture, what other things might the hunger artist symbolize in addition to “the artist”?

3. What is the symbolic significance and/or role of the other characters in the story, especially the impresario and the panther?

Consider the title and souce of the following articles. which one is most likely to exhibit a bias? (a) how to roast beef," by the food editor of a magazine (b) americans experiencing greater fatigue than previous generations, " by a harvard researcher (c) "americans' worsening eyesight not related to computer screen usage," by the public relations director of a major computer manufacturer (d) "sharing the burden: a history of cooperation," by a college professor

How did rick respond to this conflict

Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. but in a short time the prejudice against factory labor wore away, and the lowell mills became filled with blooming and energetic new england women. . they soon began to associate with those who formed the community in which they had come to live, and were invited to their houses. they went to the same church, and sometimes married into some of the best families. or if they returned to their secluded homes again, instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them. what inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt? a. the changing workforce transformed society’s rules. b. factories improved local economies with new products. c. women with factory experience found other jobs easily. d. married women preferred factory work to homemaking.