Read this excerpt from the great fire. several minutes passed before schaffer looked up from what he was doing and saw flames leaping wildly into the black sky. the light was from a different fire after all; he'd been fooled because this new blaze was almost directly behind the still-flickering remnants of the saturday october 7 fire. he studied the flames, trying to determine their exact location. this wasn't easy because of the distance and tall buildings between him and the flames. in addition, the moonless sky was made even murkier by the swirling, smoky haze. schaffer signaled down the speaking tube and had his assistant strike box 342. this sent engines rumbling through the streets — to a location almost a mile away from the o'learys' barn. what caused schaffer to instruct his assistant to strike box 342, accidentally sending firefighters to the wrong place? the leaping flames in the sky the dark, hazy night and the tall buildings the remnants of the previous fire the loud, rumbling engines

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?

What are two falling actions in the short story cupid and psyche and how does it relate to the climax? the climax is when cupid finds psyche sleeping in the garden

Excerpt from 100% - the story of a patriot upton sinclair 10 so peter walked along, with his belt drawn tight, and his restless blue eyes wandering here and there, looking for a place to get a meal. there were jobs to be had, but they were hard jobs, and peter wanted an easy one. there are people in this world who live by their muscles, and others who live by their wits; peter belonged to the latter class; and had missed many a meal rather than descend in the social scale. 11 peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. in a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at peter gudge? why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? no one did care; no one did dream. 12 it was about two o'clock of an afternoon in july, and the sun beat down upon the streets of american city. there were crowds upon the streets, and peter noticed that everywhere were flags and bunting. once or twice he heard the strains of distant music, and wondered what was "up." peter had not been reading the newspapers; all his attention bad been taken up by the quarrels of the smithers faction and the lunk faction in the first apostolic church, otherwise known as the holy rollers, and great events that had been happening in the world outside were of no concern to him. peter knew vaguely that on the other side of the world half a dozen mighty nations were locked together in a grip of death; the whole earth was shaken with their struggles, and peter had felt a bit of the trembling now and then. but peter did not know that his own country had anything to do with this european quarrel, and did not know that certain great interests throughout the country had set themselves to rouse the public to action. based on the author's characterization of peter in paragraphs 10, 11, and 12, which word best describes him? a) industrious b) loyal c) patriotic d) poor