1. Astou is shorter than Pablo.
5’4’’ is less than 5’6’’ so we can conclude that astou is shorter.
2.She is the nicest person I know.
As you can tell from the first sentence, Jane is a very nicest person. Which means that the second sentence would be stating that she is the nicest person the speaker knows.
3. Emily is funnier than Abduol.
As said in the first sentence Emily is better at telling jokes than Abduol, which makes her funnier than him.
4.the most expensive.
$4.50 > $2.00 > $1.50
Since cheese is equal to $4.00 we can conclude that cheese is the most expensive.
He takes the time first to compliment and praise Franklin D. Roosevelt to soften his criticism of United States.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Wiesel who was a Holocaust survivor shows his gratitude and kindness towards Franklin D. Roosevelt for sending the United States on time to save the remaining few Jews.
He takes the time first to compliment and praise Franklin D. Roosevelt to soften his criticism of United States. If it wasn't for the entry of the Soviet Army the whole Jewish community would have been destroyed and vanished. He talks about the Perils of indifference and the sufferings of Jews in the concentration camps.
Bradbury is trying to show how this society is constantly bombarded with media. In this case, it's advertisements pounding them into a passive state. No one on the train is talking or interacting. They are just sitting listening to the advertisement like they are being brainwashed into buying denham's dentifrice. In contrast to this Montag is trying to read a passage from the Bible about letting go of material things (including Denham's dentifrice). This juxtaposition between the natural world and materialism further shows how society is so wrapped up in media that they are unaware of the world around them.
"American paleontology got a bad reputation from Cope and Marsh's cutthroat behavior", states J. R. Hill in the article The Bone Wars and it is true because they were worried about fame and who was a better paleontologist and did not worried about science.
In the text this shows when it says:
"The mistakes they made in the rush for glory slowed the progress of paleontology for many years".
"In addition to sabotaje, Cope and Marsh forced their teams to dig up and transport bones quickly. Such speed damaged many specimens, but each man wanted the credit of making the first discoveries of new species".
