Historic Inventions
by Rupert S. Holland (adapted excerpt)

Humphrey Davy invented the safety-lamp that helped protect miners from the perils of flammable fire-damp1.

Explosions of coal-gas were only too common in the mines of England, leading to detrimental effects on those who labored underground. The biggest mine-owners met to see whether some protection against such accidents could not be devised. After much discussion, they appointed a committee to call on Sir Humphrey Davy and asked him to investigate the possibilities for them.

He took up the question, experimented with fire-damp, and found that it was in reality light carburetted hydrogen. He visited many mines and took into careful consideration the conditions under which the men worked. For months he investigated and experimented, and in 1815, he constructed the safety-lamp. This was an oil lamp, which had a chimney or cage of wire gauze that kept the flame of the lamp from passing through and igniting the fire-damp outside. The cage allowed air to pass and light to escape. Even if the combustion of the fire-damp caused the wire gauze to become red hot, it was still efficient as a safety-lamp.

1. a combustible gas especially methane
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Select the correct answer.
Which statement best describes the writer's purpose?
A.
to persuade
B.
to entertain
C.
to instruct
D.
to inform

1. Which of the two pictures can better give you the
idea of how a whale moves, how it really looks
like and what sound it makes? Why?

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Which sentence uses the word silhouettes correctly?

a. Read the case carefully and complete the proposal by filling in the correct sentence NUMBERS. (Some parts of the proposal will have more than one sentence) Do not copy the sentences; do not add your own ideas.
TGI Fridays Co.:
1.In 1965, TGI Fridays opened its first location in New York City offering high-quality, authentic American food and drinks backed by genuine service. 2.Bringing people together to socialize and celebrate the spirit of "Friday" is core to their promise that ‘In Here, It's Always Friday’.
3.The company then created an expansion strategy to meet the increasing demand. 4.Fridays restaurants currently comprises 889 restaurants in 60 countries. 5. But with expansion the organizational environment is becoming more and more complex. 6.In a vastly competitive environment, where Fridays restaurants are always experiencing a change, it becomes more and more difficult to keep strict control. 7. In the presence of a large workforce, the need for control becomes increasingly crucial.
8. However, Fridays Co. reported 35% drop in earnings for the second quarter of 2017.
9. In an attempt to understand the causes of such drop, Fridays company has discovered that customer satisfaction massively dropped.10 While gathering information related to the reasons behind the major drop in customer satisfaction, the following comments were given from the customers. 11. Many complaints about inappropriate staff behavior. 12. Many complaints about food quality. 13. Long waiting time. 14. Employees are not taking care of hygiene and cleanliness. 15. In general, they confirm that the food and service quality are below the standards set by the company. 16.The following comments were given by the restaurant staff: Salary is different for the same levels in different restaurants. 17. Nobody cares about how we feel. 18. High staff turnover pressure on existing serving staff and managers. 19. Fridays needs for transformation to re-gain customer trust. 20.Fridays Co. should adapt its customer research model in response to demand, with ’pace of experience’ which become the lead measure. 21.The working hours and pay scale of the staff must undergo revision. 22.The restaurant also should start training ensuring all staff reach a minimum standard. 23.Menu should be refreshed, and healthy options should be considered.
24. Fridays Co. is now under a real threat of going out of business.25. It may be labelled as junk food suppliers and poor service provider if changes are not made.




Category
Sentence Number

Analysis of the problem:



The Reasons:



Proposed Solutions:


Risk to the organisation if the proposed changes are not made:



b. Read the sentences below and decide the function of each sentence by specifying which states a claim and which states a support. Fill your answers in the blank boxes.

Sentence
Function
1. It is often assumed that firms are simply concerned to maximize profits: that they are not concerned with broader issues of social responsibility.

2. It is then argued, however, that competitive forces could result in society benefiting from the self-interested behaviours of firms: i.e. that profit maximization will lead to social efficiency under conditions of perfect competition and the absence of cost.

3. But, as we have seen, in the real world, markets are not perfect and there is often cost.

4. Many forms of market failure can be attributed directly to business practices that could not be classified as ‘socially responsible’: advertising campaigns that seek to misinform or in some way deceive the consumer; monopoly producers exploiting their monopoly positions through charging excessively high prices; the conscious decision to ignore water and air pollution limits; knowing that the chances of being caught are slim.

What is the meaning of vicnity?​

from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain

SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step . . . Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. . . .
He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied. Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work—the very thought of it burnt him like fire. . . . At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him! . . .
He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. Ben Rogers hove in sight presently—the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading. Ben's gait was the hop-skip-and-jump-proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high. He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. . . .
Tom went on whitewashing—paid no attention to the steamboat. Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hi-Yi! You're up a stump, ain't you!"
No answer. Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work. Ben said:
"Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?"
Tom wheeled suddenly and said:
"Why, it's you, Ben! I [wasn't] noticing."
"Say—I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd [rather] work—wouldn't you? Course you would!"
Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:
"What do you call work?"
"Why, ain't that work?"
Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."
"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?" The brush continued to move.
"Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?" . . .
"Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."
Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:
"No—no—I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence . . . it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done."
"No—is that so? Oh come, now—lemme just try. Only just a little—I'd let you, if you was me, Tom."
"Ben, I'd like to, honest…but Aunt Polly—well…[if] you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it—"
"Oh, shucks, I'll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say—I'll give you the core of my apple."
"Well, here—No, Ben, now don't. I'm afeard—"
"I'll give you all of it!"
Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

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Select all of the correct answers.
How does the dialogue between Tom and Ben impact the passage as a whole?

A. It creates tension between Tom and Ben that will only be resolved when Tom hands Ben his brush.
B. The dialogue reveals that Tom really does prefer whitewashing to going swimming.
C. It sets up a flashback to an earlier time when Tom was content.
D. The dialogue reveals Tom’s plan to get others to do his work.
E. It foreshadows that Aunt Polly will find out about Tom’s plan and discipline him.

Based on the excerpt, how will Lord Shamash most likely affect the battle with Humbaba?

3. You purchase 100 shares of stock for $40 a share. The stock pays a $2 per share dividend at year-end. a. What is the rate of return on your investment if the end-of-year stock price is (i) $38; (ii) $40; (iii) $42? b. What is your real (inflation-adjusted) rate of return if the inflation rate is 4

can we use coordinating conjunction (or) in simple sentences?​

a child when he plays likes all the light he makes and he understands them all and with them a game begins.
says the bush of smiles:
-Hello dear baby!
The flower says stop your steps!
catch us say the butterflies
I'm smooth and small, call me a pebble.
Sing the swallow again
I've been calling you the puppy for a long time and he comes and play with me.

Thx

What figure of speech is, " the hills were joyful

PLEASE HELP!!!! WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST!!!!

What does the prefix pre- in preview indicate in the following sentence?

The students were able to preview the movie.

Which sentences use prepositions correctly?
Which sentence use prepositions correctly?
Select one or more:

a. I'm occupied with training the new employees.
b. It's not easy to choose among many alternatives.
C. Corporate accounting regulations are different than ten years ago.

Select the correct answer.
What do the underlined words convey?
OA. Melanie's mother is caught in a rainstorm.
OB.
Time is moving very slowly for Melanie.
Melanie is afraid of driving in the dark
OD. The school parking lot is very large.

my children my africa diary entry about isabel
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2. Change the following sentences into passive.
a. Hari bought a pen.
b. The boy has written a poem.
c. National park attract tourist
d. Children like sweets.
e. Anil is making a chair.
Itor

Which of the following 20th-century figures influenced Modernist literature
through his groundbreaking work on the subconscious?

Match each word with its definition.

Police killings prompt activists to seek 'new civil rights movement'

Who does the injustice effect? (list groups of people)

please dont copy and paste

Need help please, It's urgent, which quote to support the idea....
Read the excerpt below from "Icarus" by Jean Lang.
In terror Icarus's father Daedalus watched him, and as Daedalus called to him in a voice of anguished warning that was drowned by the whistling rush of the air currents through the wings of Icarus, and there befell the dreaded thing. It seemed as though the strong wings had begun to lose their power. Like a wounded bird Icarus fluttered, lunged sidewise from the straight, clean line of his flight, recovered himself, and fluttered again. And then, like the bird into whose soft breast the sure hand of a mighty archer has driven an arrow, downwards he fell, turning over and yet turning again, downwards, ever downwards, until he fell with a plunge into the sea that still was radiant in shining emerald and translucent blue.
Then the car of Apollo drove on. His rays had slain one who was too greatly daring, and now they shone on the little white feathers that had fallen from the broken wings and floated on the water like the petals of a torn flower.
Stricken at heart was Daedalus, but there was no time to lament his son’s untimely end, for even now the ships of Minos might be in pursuit. Onward he flew to safety, and in Sicily built a temple to Apollo, and there hung up his wings as a propitiatory offering to the god who had slain his son.
Which quote best supports the idea that Icarus was reckless?
a) "Onward he flew to safety, and in Sicily built a temple to Apollo."
b) "His rays had slain one who was too greatly daring."
c) "Then the car of Apollo droveon."
d) "It seemed as though the strong wings had begun to lose their power
Note: I confused between b) and d)....

The synonyms of emancipation is...​

Why is black Friday a frustrating experience for some people? Refer to the text in your answer.

Rome is the capital of Italy. I need to know where I have to put the punctuation mark​

Write an essay (about 200 words) answer the following topic (the essay should include an introduction, 2 body paragraph and a conclusion): Some people think that sending criminals to prison is not effective. Education and job training should be used instead. Do you agree or disagree?

How are newspapers today typeset?
O manually
computers
cameras
telegraph?

which document was written to convince the nation to go to war with britain

Which of the following is an example of dr. Pickhardt's advice to parents when responding to adolescence rebellion?

When did you notice that your car was stolen? Change into declarative sentence.

Explain how the following pairs of sentences differ in meaning.
1. a) The road CAN be blocked. b) The road MAY be blocked.
2. a) We WERE HAVING a party when my sister announced her engagement. b) We HAD a party when my sister announced her engagement.

Three wire wound resistors have the following values 30 ohms,80 ohms and 100 ohms.each resistor has a voltage rating of 100 volts if these three resistor are connected in series can they be powered by a 240volts