Section i: robert lipsyte
1. what famous newspaper was the place of lipsyte’s first writing job?
2. what major league baseball team did lipsyte cover in the spring of 1962?
3. lipsyte covered a 1964 heavyweight championship match between which two boxers?
4. in what year was lipsyte the runner-up for the pulitzer prize in commentary?
5. what was the title of the lipsyte book published in 2006 about “a high school football star
who has to make some tough decisions after a brutal hazing incident”?

Find the center and the radius of the circle with the equation: x^-2x+y^2+4y+1=0

Which line from the story of my life by helen keller is an example of a simile? during the whole trip i did not have one fit of temper, there were so many things to keep my mind and fingers busy. i was like that ship before my education began, only i was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. one day, while i was playing with my new doll, miss sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make me understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both. child as i was, i at once felt the tenderness and sympathy which endeared dr. bell to so many hearts, as his wonderful achievements enlist their admiration.

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community