The article "Thanksgiving: Fact or Fiction" lists different beliefs about Thanksgiving and states whether they are fact or fiction.
Here is the list:
1. Thanksgiving is held on the final Thursday of every year.
- Fiction. Initially this was the case, but it was changed to be the fourth Thursday in November to make the shopping season longer.
2. One of America's founding fathers thought the turkey should be the national bird of the United States.
- Fact. Benjamin Franklin suggested this.
3. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln became the first American president to proclaim a national day of thanksgiving.
- Fiction. Three presidents before him proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving.
4. Macy's was the first American department store to sponsor a parade in celebration of Thanksgiving.
- Fiction. Gimbel's store had the first Thanksgiving Day parade in 1920. However, four years later Macy's had theirs and that became the tradition.
5. Turkeys are slow moving birds that lack the ability to fly.
- Fiction (kind of). Domestic turkeys, which are eaten at Thanksgiving cannot fly, but wild ones can fly for a short time.
6. Native Americans used cranberries, now a staple of many Thanksgiving dinners, for cooking as well as medicinal purposes.
- Fact. They were used for food, medicine, and dye.
7. The movement of the turkey inspired a ballroom dance.
- Fact. It's called the turkey trot.
8. On Thanksgiving Day in 2007, two turkeys earned a trip to Disney World.
- Fact. George W. Bush issued a pardon to two turkeys named May and Flower.
9. Turkey contains an amino acid that makes you sleepy.
- Fact. However, most people likely feel sleepy from the fat and carbohydrates, or simply eating too much food.
10. The tradition of playing or watching football on Thanksgiving started with the first National Football League game on the day in 1934.
- Fiction. The American Intercollegiate Football Association held a game in 1876.
D. The narrator of the poem is a fourteen year old boy, who has lost confidence in himself because of his age and going older (lines 1-4); by his skin breaking out (line 2); the braces he wears (line 30); and due to his paranoia of dying young (lines 8, 15, 32). Illness is not implied as holding him back.
Answer:
ummm I hope this helped I looked on my textbook for these answers :')
Explanation:
1)Brown made fun of what Twain wears, where he lives, and Brown mocked Twain.
2) The captain was happy, the captain told Twain not to tell anyone what he had said about Brown.
3) Terms in this set (15) What are Twain's feelings about Brown - "an ignorant, snarling, fault-hunting, tyrant." Twain dislikes Brown intensely. ... Twain tries to hold his temper when Brown gets angry
(I didn't really get number 4 nor 5 sowy)
The main way in which Karana survive the big waves that wash over the island in this story is that "C. She hides <span>in a sea cave" although this doesn't happen until later. </span>
