Zach is looking for a homeowners insurance policy for his new house. AAA Insurance company has offered him a plan that insures his home annually for $0. 36 per $100 of value in the home. In order to make calculations easier, Thompson’s Insurance lists their annual homeowners insurance premium a bit differently, at $3. 63 per $1,000 of value in the home. Zach’s house is worth $289,000. What should Zach be thinking as he chooses between the two insurance companies? a. $3. 63 per $1,000 is approximately the same as $0. 36 per $100. The premiums for the two insurance companies will be the same. B. The annual premium for his house would be cheaper through AAA. C. The annual premium for his house would be cheaper through Thompson’s. D. Since the two insurance companies list their premiums differently, the two cannot be compared.

answer: compare a myth legend, or classic work of literature of you choice to a modern work that reinterprets it.focus on the similarities in theme between the newer work and the original, and provide examples that illustrate these themes from both works. the modern work may be any novel, movie, play, short story, or other storytelling medium with which you’re familiars long as it is clearly inspired by a myth, legend, or classic work of literature.

short-response prompt  

read the following excerpt from “fish cheeks” by amy tannin which tan recounts a christmas eve dinner.  

i fell in love with the minister’s son the winter i turned fourteen. he was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger. for christmas i prayed for this blond-haired boy, robert, and a slim new american nose.  

on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. she was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. the kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: a slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. a howl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.  

after everyone had gone, my mother said to me. “you want to be the same as american girls on the outside.” she handed me an early gift. it was a miniskirt in beige tweed. “but in side you must always be chinese. you must be proud you are different. your only shame is to have shame.”

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True

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