Which detail in “the oasis: africa” does not support the idea that the sahara desert is perilous? question 12 options: misery of hunger, torture of thirst; unending discomfort of swarming lice. one day the dreaded sirocco had swept upon us. this danger past, we had lost another day making a wide detour to the east in order to avoid the fierce, tameless tuaregs, who were marauding in the district. canopus, the great star of prehistoric egypt, blazed white above the horizon; sirius shone like a peerless diamond, and aldebaran like a ruby.

What prediction did douglass’ owner master make about what would happen if he learned to read? did it come true? why or why not?

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee. —"sonnet 18," william shakespeare in one to two sentences, explain the central idea of the final couplet of the poem.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt