Answer:For example, when you get those weird chewy caramel things on Halloween; given out of kindness but really no good. I'm thinking of something that is a "false gift", almost like the inverse of a blessing in disguise (which this thread discusses, but none of those are what I'm thinking of).
The intentionality of the giver is not so important as the properties of the thing itself: it is supposed to be good, but really isn't.
Explanation:
Quindlen links the conclusion to the introduction of her essay with the words "like many improbable ideas, when it works, it's a wonder", which is very close to her claim in the overall text, "America is an Improbable idea", it isn't supposed to work but it does despite all of the differences, specifically racial or ethnic, within it.
Answer:
TRUE
Explanation:
Telecommunication pathways may include the occupations that is related to the interaction between the communicating device or equipment and the computer. It is for reading and interpreting the instructions or data from the communicating equipment.
In the context, Lindsey is working in the Telecommunication pathway for Energy cluster. As a part of her role her job is to study and determine the effects of fracking process on the prairies and whether it will damage the land or not. She is able to find out the results by monitoring and studying the effects of this fracking practice on the land by reading the data shown on the computer by some electronic device or instruments that is used to interact with the computer and the rocks inside the earth surface where they are looking for extracting the gas.
Thus it is TRUE.
Pequod's preparation was overseen by men who owned the ship together with Ahab but were no longer sailors, they were now just investors and owners. They didn't know what Ahab was planning and what would happen to the crew and they probably would've stopped it if they had known.