Write a short research essay (under 500 words) about one of the founding fathers who signed the Constitution. Write a brief summary of the highlights of your chosen leader's life and experiences. Identify a particularly positive character quality, skill, or experience in their
life that stands out to you. Analyze and write about why you think that character quality, skill, or experience was important.
How do you think it could have made them a better leader?

What was stevenson’s grandmother’s legacy to him? how does his work build on her legacy,? what values do you learn from her that he continues to display in his adult life?

In ralph ellison’s “the black ball” the narrator of the story stretches the truth or lies several times what do you think it is his motivation for being so untruthful

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.