Why did settlers in Jamestown almost starve?
They lacked the basic farming techniques required to grow sustainable crops.
What was the name of the Native American girl who saved Smiths life? Whom did she marry?
Answer 1. Pocahontas saved John Smith's life.
Answer 2. Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
Answer: A. between paragraphs 5 and 6
Explanation:
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The summary of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is the following:
Hester is dissatisfied with her life because she has no luck and her husband does not make as much money as she would like. Her son Paul begins to place bets on horse races together with his uncle and the gardener, and the horses he chooses actually win. He and his uncle decide to give his mother a gift of five thousand pounds, but he becomes ill. The day of the Derby he wins eighty thousand pounds, and he confesses his mother that he can guess the name of the winner horse by riding his rocking horse at home and reaching a psychic state of mind. Finally, he dies that night, and Hester feels that he is doing better now that he is dead than riding a rocking-horse in order to make money.
Answer:
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Explanation:
By the end of the book, Holling has become a dedicated cross country runner. Although he starts out running simply because he's told to, he eventually learns to take the sport seriously and train for a performance he can be proud of.
He learns to stand up for himself and those he cares about, and to find beauty and life whenever possible, in spite of the knowledge that war and death are prominent in the world. By the end of the novel, Hoodhood has learned that life is about compromise, and about finding your own destiny.
Holling knew that it would be difficult to choose the path of freedom from his father's wishes, but part of him was torn between pleasing his father and pleasing himself. Holling figured out that when a person decides what their focus is, life will seem clearer, even though its difficulties may not be over.
