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In 2005, the parents of Terri Schiavo, a woman in a vegetative coma for 15 years, became embroiled in a legal battle with her husband. Her parents wanted her to continue to be kept alive with feeding tubes and other medical procedures, while her husband desired the tubes removed. Ms. Schiavo's parents tried repeatedly to get the Supreme Court to hear their case, but the Court refused to grant certiorari.
What is meant by the term certiorari?
A) a formal deposition made by experts
B) a warrant required to stop an action
C) a warrant required to begin an action
D) a formal request to have a case heard in court

Read jonathan swift's essay "a modest proposal." note the six numbered arguments that swift makes midway through the essay. write down your analysis and response to his arguments. as you write your response, keep in mind his central themes and ideas in the essay.

Which pair of uses of figurative language from “the caged bird” support the extended metaphor of freedom versus oppression? back of the wind; floats downstream his wings are clipped; his feet are tied the caged bird sings; the free bird thinks dawn bright lawn; grave of dreams

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?