Iwas so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that i learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns. . for the talent show, i was to play a piece called "pleading child" from schumann's scenes from childhood. it was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. i was supposed to memorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. but i dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. i never really listened to what i was playing. i daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else. what does the narration in the excerpts reveal about jing-mei's character? the song is much too difficult for jing-mei, so she cannot concentrate no matter what she does. she thinks the talent show is a big joke and is not willing to work for it. she is trying her best, but she keeps getting distracted by her own imagination. she believes she cannot succeed even if she tries, so she doesn't bother to try.

Click to read the passage from "lifeboat ethics," by garrett hardin. then answer the question. what is the author's purpose for including the following example in his argument against rich nations poor nations? a. he wants to explain why more nations need to invest in "miracle" crops. b. he wants to disprove the idea that poor nations will eventually be able to support themselves. c. he wants to prove that the green revolution is the best use of people's money. d. he wants to show a solution to poverty that he believes can actually work.

The point of view that london uses in white fang the reader understand the perspectives

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.