Answer:Even though he feels a bit guilty, Percy can't help eavesdropping. In the conversation, he hears that Grover is worried about him being alone during the summer. Apparently, in both Grover and Mr. Brunner's eyes, the discovery of a 'Kindly One' at school is a worrisome development.
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Answer:
sacrifice
Explanation:
Jim and his wife Della did not have enough money to buy each other Christmas gifts. So they sold their most prized possession to get money for the gifts.
After Della had her beautiful long locks cut and sold to a hair shop, she was able to buy a watch chain for Jim. Unfortunately, Jim had already sold his watch to buy some pretty tortoiseshell combs for Della's hair. The story is definitely about sacrifice.
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B
Explanation: The reason comes from understanding what ethnocentrism is, and also what communication codes are, and are used for. Ethnocentrism is a concept that defines the act of a culture, or group of people, judging another from its preconcieved ideas, customs, traditions, and cultural characteristics. In essence, what happens in ethnocentrism is that a specific group of individuals with a common culture, believe themselves to be on top of all others, and judge everything from that standpoint, almost inferiorizing anything and everything done by someone outside of that superior culture.
The correct answer is - The piercing squeal of tires on asphalt startled Katrina from a deep sleep.
This sentence is quite descriptive because it uses strong words such as <em>piercing, squeal, </em>and <em>deep. </em>We can almost clearly imagine what this entire scene looked (and sounded) like thanks to the use of descriptive language. The imagery is strong in this sentence, whereas it doesn't really appear in the other options.