An author's style affects how a reader responds to a piece of writing. Long sentences are often characteristic of a fluid, poetic style that connects many ideas. Simple word choice can reflect the voice of the narrator or can be a way to communicate ideas in an easy-to-understand manner. Use of imagery and figurative language is a common technique of poetic writers. Style can also be a clue to the author's purpose.

From this selection, how would you characterize McCourt's style of writing?

Description helps readers visualize what is happening in a story. Notice the vivid description in this passage from "An Astrologer's Day": "The astrologer caught a glimpse of [the stranger's] face by the matchlight. There was a pause as cars hooted on the road, jutka drivers swore at their horses and the babble of the crowd agitated the semidarkness of the park." Descriptive language can help bring a character to life. Description also can help build suspense or provide dues about what might. happen next.

What details and techniques does Narayan use to describe the astrologer?

Because tanka are so short and simple, the tanka writer, like the haiku poet, must rely on precise, direct language to suggest ideas. A tanka can have different meanings for different readers, depending on the life experiences of each reader.

Choose one of the two tanka. For as many of the words in the tanka as you can, think of or look up a synonym. Rewrite the tanka using your synonyms. Analyze how the tanka's meaning or mood has changed as a result.

Examining Cardiac Muscle Tissue Anatomy

1. Observe the three-dimensional model of cardiac muscle, examining its branching cells and the areas where the cells interdigitate, the intercalated discs.

2. Compare the model of cardiac muscle to the model of skeletal muscle. Note the similarities and differences between the two kinds of muscle tissue.

3. Observe a longitudinal section of cardiac muscle under high power. Identify the nucleus, striations, intercalated discs, and sarcolemma of the individual cells, and compare your observations

Leonardo da Vinci, renowned for his understanding of human anatomy, val ued the measures of a man stated by Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer of the first century $\mathrm{BC}$ : four fingers make one palm, four palms make one foot, six palms make one cubit, and four cubits make a man's height. If we take a finger width to be $0.75$ in., what then are (a) the length of a man's foot and (b) the height of a man, both in centimeters?

Suppose that a family has 5 children. Also, suppose that the probability of having a girl is 1/2. Find the probabilities that the family has the following children. At least 4 girls

A young couple wants to have a family of six children. Assuming that having a boy or girl is equally likely, what is the probability of having the following number of girls in their family?

$$2$$

The Li family has four children born in different years. Find the probability that a family with four children has exactly two boys and two girls in any order.

Choose the proper answer from the following key to respond to the descriptions relating to spinal cord anatomy. (Some terms are used more than once.)
Key: a. sensory b. motor c. both sensory and motor d. interneurons

1. primary neuron type found in dorsal horn
2. primary neuron type found in ventral horn
3. neuron type in dorsal root ganglion
4. fiber type in ventral root
5. fiber type in dorsal root
6. fiber type in spinal nerve

The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the corresponding bones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. However, genetic data suggest that all three kinds of organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for these data? (A) Forelimb evolution was adaptive in people and bats, but not in whales. (B) Natural selection in an aquatic environment resulted in significant changes to whale forelimb anatomy. (C ) Genes mutate faster in bats than in humans or whales. (D) Whales are not properly classified as mammals.

Learning. A college language class was chosen for a learning experiment. Using a list of $50$ words, the experiment measured the rate of vocabulary memorization at different times during a continuous $5$-hour study session. The average rate of learning for the entire class was inversely proportional to the time spent studying and was given approximately by

$$V'(t)=\frac{15}{t}\qquad 1\leq{t}\leq5$$

Find the area between the graph of $V'$ and the $t$ axis over the interval $[2, 4]$, and interpret the results.

Find the differential equation of the given family. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family. Use a graphing utility to graph both families on the same set of coordinate axes.

$$y = c _ { 1 } x$$

What role were woman expected to play in society and family life in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and how closely did patterns of family life correspond to this ideal?

After his school’s football team won the division championship, Luke went to a local bar with some friends and drank too much beer. Fortunately, one of his friends served as a designated driver. The next morning, Luke wondered why he was thirsty and felt somewhat dehydrated. His roommate, an anatomy and physiology student, pointed out that alcohol inhibits Antidiuretic Hormone secretion from the posterior pituitary. The roommate then explained why Luke was thirsty and dehydrated. What was the explanation?