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"The Road Not Taken"by Robert FrostTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the differenceRead the poem and respond to the following:Copy at least four but no more than ten lines from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and annotate them.
Please Help! Based on information in the article, which best describes the difference between the child labor rates in Nepal and Mongolia?A.Child labor rates have increased in Mongolia since 1990, but decreased in Nepal since 1990.B.Child labor rates have increased in Mongolia since 1990, but stayed the same in Nepal since 1990.C.Child labor rates have increased in Nepal since 1990, but decreased in Mongolia since 1990.D.Child labor rates have increased in Nepal since 1990, but stayed the same in Mongolia since 1990. In 2000, there were 127 million children working in Asia. By 2004, that number had fallen to 122 million. Officials are pleased that child labor rates have dropped, but they say the decline isn't happening fast enough.Those numbers came from a recent report from the International Labor Organization (ILO). The report focused on South Asia, which includes Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and other nations. It concluded that despite the decrease in the number of working children ages five to 14, South Asia remains a child labor hot spot.The report discussed child labor in several nations and identified Nepal as one of the worst offenders. As of 2004, almost 40 percent of Nepalese children aged 10 to 14 were working. Many continue to do strenuous physical labor in mines, quarries, and carpet factories. Still, even in Nepal, child labor rates are declining; they had been near 50 percent in 1990.The Philippines has improved, but problems remain in some industries. Many Filipino children still work in fireworks production, deep-sea fishing, and mining. The country has a national action plan to change this."The [anti-child labor] laws are all there," said Filipino Undersecretary of Labor and Employment Manuel G. Imson. Imson says that the government is working with the police to enforce these laws.In some cases, child labor has emerged where it was previously nonexistent. There were few or no child laborers in Mongolia until 1990; today, up to 10,000 children there work in gold, coal, and mineral mines. Kh. Ganbaatar, executive director of the Mongolian Employers' Federation, blames the problem on economic changes as well as on natural disasters. Several years ago, winter storms killed millions of livestock. This made it harder for families to maintain their traditional herding way of life. Many of these families were forced to send their children to work.In fact, child labor often develops because area families cannot make ends meet and need extra income. In other cases, parents want to send their children to school but cannot afford the related fees."A large number of working poor means that we have a large number of people who are unable to support children [going] to school," said Panudda Boonpala, senior child labor specialist at the ILO.In August, government representatives from nearly 40 countries as well as workers' and employers' organizations attended an ILO conference. Topics on their agenda included migration, competitiveness, productivity, and youth employment (child labor). At a session on youth employment, participants watched a video that showed children working at a gold mine in Mongolia.The ILO says that it will try to end some of the worst forms of child labor within 10 years. Its officials point out that attitudes about working children have changed in Asia. This is contributing to the reduction in child labor rates."I think 10 years ago there was lots of denial," Panudda said. Still, she said, nations will not be able to end child labor unless they are willing to put a lot of effort and funding into the fight against it.
In this passage, a young soldier is preparing himself for his first battle of the American Civil War. Various veterans had told him tales. Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewingtobacco with unspeakable valor, tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns. Others spoke of tattered andeternally hungry men who fired despondent powders. Still, he could not put a whole faith in veterans' tales, for recruits were their prey. They talked much of smoke, fire, and blood, but he couldnot tell how much might be lies. They persistently yelled "Fresh fish!" at him, and were in no wise to be trusted. However, he perceived now that it did not greatly matter what kind of soldiers he was going to fight so long as they fought, which fact noone disputed. There was a more serious problem. He lay in his bunk pondering upon it. He tried to mathematically prove to himself that he wouldnot run from a battle,Which describes how the young soldier's behavior reveals a moral dilemma?1. His agitation about how he will perform reveals his fear that he is secretly a coward,2. His feeling that the laws of life are useless makes him fear that he is becoming an outlaw. 3. His lack of trust in the older soldiers reveals that he fears he is losing his faith in humanity. 4. His feeling that it doesn't matter who he is going to fight reveals that he is losing his compassion,
After youve planned the main elements of your narrative in sufficient detail, write your rough draft. Your narrative should include these elements: a thoroughly developed plot with a descriptive setting and engaging characters a clear theme with relevant details a consistent point of view and organizational structure, including the effective use of transitions a variety of rich language and syntaxthe storyVictorian literature often focused on the problems that were present at the time. Authors such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte and Oscar Wilde all wrote books that went against the Victorian society and attempted to modify it. Some topics they noted were the lack of education, poverty, lack of social mobility and the strict social normal. An example of such a story could be one where the character is of lower class. An orphan girl. When the girl is young, she experiences great hardship. She is poor and is forced to work long hours. All while as, people abused her and disrespected her. Nonetheless, her love of learning new things and some good luck allowed her to educate herself and become a teacher. She became intelligent and beautiful. Then a rich man falls in love with her. However, they both find it difficult to be together, because society disapproves of couples of such different social levels. However, they eventually go against everyone else and end up being together
From The Enchanted AprilMrs. Wilkins longed to get up and open the shutters, but where she was was really so very delicious. She gave a sigh of contentmentand went on lying there looking round her, taking in everything in her room, her own little room, her very own to arrange just as she pleasedfor this one blessed month, her room bought with her own savings, thefruit of her careful denials, whose door she could bolt if she wanted to. and nobody had the right to come in. It was such a strange little room, so different from any she had known, and so sweet. [. ]Well, this was delicious, to lie there thinking how happy she was, but outside those shutters it was more delicious still. She jumped up. pulled on her slippers, for there was nothing on the stone floor but one small rug, ran to the window and threw open the shutters. "Oh!" cried Mrs. Wilkins. All the radiance of April in Italy lay gathered together at her feet. The sun poured in on her. The sea lay asleep in it, hardly stirring. Across the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light and underneath her window, at the bottom ofthe flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets androse-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword. She stared. Such beauty, and she there to see it. Such beauty, and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents cameup to the window and caressed her. A tiny breeze gently lifted her hair. Far out in the bay a cluster of almost motionless fishing boats hoveredWhat do Mrs. Wilkins's surroundings reveal about her character?O 1. Mrs. Wilkins's new surroundings reveal her distaste for the countryside. 02. Mrs. Wilkins's old surroundings reflect her natural capacity for enjoyment. O 3. Mrs. Wilkins's new surroundings reflect her release from an emotional burden. 04. Mrs. Wilkins's old surroundings reveal her delight in unselfishly serving others.