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What is the connotative meaning of fault lines in this excerpt?
"Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphen—African-American, Mexican-American, Irish-American—would overwhelm the right."
something powerful and threatening
something familiar and interesting
something harmless and pleasant
something amusing and impressive
Answer:
The correct answer is something powerful and threatening.
Explanation:
Let's start by defining what a fault line is. In this matter it means a division between cultures or religions that result in a violent confrontation.
What these lines describe is something powerful and threatening. You can read the power of this confrontation, as well as its threat.
<em>"there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust".</em>
Answer:
Having left the arid, chemical-laden, dying Earth for a yearlong assignment, Ishmael awakens from stasis already on the Pequod, a ship in the middle of the ocean on a planet called Cretacea. He’s never seen an ocean before—nor rain, nor plants, nor solid food, nor nonhuman animals like the sea creatures this ship is hunting. He needs money to buy his foster parents passage off of Earth, but Capt. Ahab’s singular, manic focus on killing the Great Terrafin (think: white whale) prevents the crew from harvesting other sea animals, despite the profit they offer. Strasser crams in a lot: post-apocalyptic Earth, ship life, enthusiastic and bloody sea hunting, time travel, naturally occurring opioids, pirates, stereotypically simple-hearted islanders, inexplicable and pointless dialects, and a blind man who smells information. The rusty, old Pequod is powered by nuclear reactor, and technological gadgets—tablets, magnetic levitation, drones that track sea life—make strange bedfellows for harpoons and people unaware of the concept of reading. Despite the science-fiction premise—including a surprise late reveal—this has a pure adventure core; Ishmael undergoes no emotional growth arc whatsoever, and his characterization comes straight from lost-heir fantasy.
Well that kinda has a hidden meaning but it has two ways different meanings to what I know.
1) If ur doing nothing at all and just lying around or doing something useless u usually say I'm doing nothing but in fact u are doing something it's just not something to be known.
2) If ur doing doing something that is not benefiting anyone or even yourself that is called nothing.
Answer:
2. idiom
3. hyperbole
4. metaphor
5. onomatopoeia
6. simile
7. idiom
Explanation:
I'm not 100% confident in these answers tbh BUT
2. "heart skipped a beat" is not something that literally happens when you're frightened, an idiom has hidden meaning besides what the text actually says
3. "I don't know how much longer I can go without eating." hyperbole because the sentence is dramatic and not actually insinuating that the speaker is starving or famined
4. "apple of my eye" is a very common metaphor comparing the beauty of an apple to the eye with the beauty of a person to the eye
5. "CLANG of pots and pans" these are usually visual sounds such as POW or BOOM in writing styles
6. "as white as snow" similes compare two subjects using words such as "like" and "as" in between the two subjects
7. "heart is stone" is pretty much the same as "heart skippped a beat"
Answer:
The central idea of the article is to show that the experiments with human beings have already been done in very scary ways and without any type of regulation.
Explanation:
As we know, the experiences involving human beings, currently, are extremely regulated, so that the participants of the experience do not suffer any physical, chemical or biological problem. However, this has not always been a concern for scientists. As we can see in "Disturbing history of human experimentation", the experiences in human beings carried out in the past, presented very frightening and disturbing situations, many of them having children as participants. These experiments had no regulation whatsoever, allowing the scientist to manipulate the participant's body in any way he wanted, without worrying about his or her well-being.
