Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows. matthew is a finalist in the spelling bee. he receives his final word: “punctilious.” he does not spell it correctly and he is eliminated from the spelling bee when sally spells the word correctly. based on self-serving bias, what type of attribution would matthew be most likely to make of his failure? a. “i was just unlucky.” b. “i wasn’t that interested in winning.” c. “i really wasn’t trying that hard.” d. “i’m not a good enough speller.”

How does the author foreshadow trouble in the prison? support your answer with explicit textual evidence.

In the book hatchet why did brian think searchers would not find him

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination