Is there a story to go with this?
Answer:
I read the summary of the story, I think the title referred to a situation wherein a law must be rigidly implemented to maintain balance. There is no room for negotiation nor any changes in the fixed equation, to do so will result to catastrophic consequences.
The EDS where Marilyn stowed away contains fuel that is only good for a specific weight. Any excess weight must be jettisoned off the EDS to maintain balance. Regardless of any emotional turmoil that the law must produce, it must be observed. Thus, it is called a cold equation.
Explanation:
Example: you were talking about rocks and petrified trees, rocks are made out of minerals, but petrified trees are taken over by minerals.
Tara could not wait for summer.
An independent clause can be it's own sentence, while a dependent clause could not.
The full sentence could be:
Tara could not wait for summer as she was tired of doing homework.
The dependent clause would be ’as she was tried of homework’ because that can't be it's own sentence because it doesn't form a complete thought.
’Tara could not wait for summer’ is an independent clause because it has both a subject and a verb.
Not sure what this is from, but based on the way this was worded, I would most likely assume that her mother was killed by the Russians.
~Hope this helps!