Jay Whaley
17 September 2003
Mrs. Mollman 1113
Hacker
34-1
a. Do not ask me to be kind, just ask me to act as though I were.
b. When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children; but they never ask the women and children what they think.
c. When I get a little money, I buy books; if any is left I buy food and clothes.
d. America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going, but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
e. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
1. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
2. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
3. Once the children were in the house, the air became more vivid and more heated; every object in the house grew more alive.
4. We don’t know what we want; but we are ready to bite someone to get it.
5. I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor; rich is better.
35-1
a. Minds are like parachutes: They function only when open.
b. If we have come to fight, we are far too few; if we have come to die, we are far too many.
c. The travel package includes a round-trip ticket to Athens, a cruise through the Cyclades, and all hotel accommodations.
d. The media like to portray my generation as lazy, although polls show that we work as hard as the twentysomethings before us.
e. Fran Lebowitz has this advice for parents: “Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn’t known you long enough.”
1. Kay survived for one reason: the medics got her in time.
2. While traveling through France, Fiona visited the Loire Valley, Chartres, the Louvre, and the McDonald’s stand at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
3. There are three types of leave: annual leave, used for vacations; sick leave, used for medical appointments and illness; and personal leave, used for a variety of personal reasons.
4. Carl Sandburg once asked three important questions: “Who paid for my freedom,” “What was the price,” and “Am I somehow beholden?”
5. Robin sorts the crabs into three groups: males, females, and crabs about to molt.
19-1
a. The shock of bereavement is often followed by a succession of emotions: denial, sorrow, anger, despair, guilt, remorse, and longing.
b. Cortes and his soldiers were astonished when they looked down from the mountains and saw Tenochtitlan, the magnificent capital of Aztecs.
c. Although my spoken Spanish is not very good, I can read the language with ease.
d. There are several reasons for not eating meat; one reason being that dangerous chemicals are used throughout the various stages of meat production.
e. To give my family a comfortable, secure home life is my most important goal.
20-1
a. The city had one public swimming pool, and it stayed packed with children all summer long.
b. The building is being renovated; therefore, at times we have no heat, water, or electricity.
c. The neighborhood was ruled by gangs. What kind of environment was this for my ten-year-old son?
d. Suddenly, there was a loud silence; the shelling had stopped.
e. Because the frame was twisted and the block was warped, the car was hardly worth trading.
