A Windstorm in the Forest begins by depicting the wind as a maternal figure. As if tending to children, “the winds go to every tree, fingering every leaf and branch and furrowed bole … [seeking] and [finding] them all, caressing them tenderly, bending them in lusty exercise, stimulating their growth, plucking off a leaf or limb as required” (55). The trees resemble infants who are reliant on their mothers to make them strong, living symbiotically with the wind; the trees eventually reap cool shade, clean oxygen and protection for the soil below in return for the winds’ breezes.
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False
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Dozens of countries still have royal families. Some monarchs go by the title of king or queen while others are referred to as emperor, sultan or emir.
In Norway, Spain, Britain and Sweden, the royal positions are purely ceremonial. Several countries in Africa and Asia have similar figurehead monarchs, among them Lesotho, Cambodia and Malaysia.
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"At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign. The teachers called us as our parents did, or as close as they could pronounce our names in Spanish or Japanese. No one was ever scolded or punished for speaking in his native tongue on the playground."
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Took the test and got it right.
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this is math. not English.
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