Excerpt from Stuff Matters

By Mark Miodownik

In the absence of copper, gold, and meteoric iron, our ancestors’ tools during the Stone Age were made of flint, wood, and bone. Anyone who has ever tried to make anything with these kinds of tools knows how limiting they are: if you hit a piece of wood it either splinters, cracks, or snaps. The same is true of rock or bone. Metals are fundamentally different from these other materials because they can be hammered into shape: they flow, they are malleable. Not only that, they get stronger when you hit them; you can harden a blade just by hammering it. And you can reverse the process simply by putting metal in a fire and heating it up, which will cause it to get softer. The first people to discover these properties ten thousand years ago had found a material that was almost as hard as a rock but behaved like a plastic and was almost infinitely reusable. In other words, they had discovered the perfect material for tools, and in particular cutting tools like axes, chisels, and razors. This ability of metals to transform from a soft to a hard material must have seemed like magic to our ancient ancestors.

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In 1961 Professor Richmond from Oxford University discovered a pit that had been dug by the Romans in AD 89. It contained 763,840 small two-inch nails, 85,128 medium nails, 25,088 large nails, and 1,344 extra-large sixteen-inch nails. The hoard was of iron and steel and not gold, which most people would have found bitterly disappointing. But not Professor Richmond. Why, he asked himself, would a Roman legion bury seven tons of iron and steel? The legion had been occupying the advance headquarters of Agricola in a place called Inchtuthil in Scotland. This was at the outer reaches of the Roman Empire, and their mission was to protect its border from what they saw as the savage tribes who threatened it: the Celts. The legion of five thousand men occupied the region for six years before retreating and, in the process, abandoning their fort. They made great efforts to leave behind nothing that could help their enemies. They smashed all food and drink containers and burned the fort to the ground. But they weren’t satisfied with this. In the ashes were the steel nails that had held the fort together, and they were far too valuable to be left to the tribes that had driven them out. Iron and steel were the materials that enabled the Romans to build aqueducts, ships, and swords; they allowed them to engineer an empire. Leaving the nails to their enemies would have been as useful as leaving a cache of weapons, so they buried them in a pit before marching south.
Based on the excerpt, the reader can infer that Professor Richmond viewed the discovery of the Roman pit as –

A) Fascinating

B)Disappointing

C) Wasteful

D) Intelligent

Answer:

A) Fascinating

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from Stuff Matters

by Mark Miodownik, the history of metals is discussed and how their discovery helped shape mankind and how he used tools. Professor Richmond discovered a pit dug by the Romans in AD 89 which contained buried nails meant to be kept out of reach of from the Celts.

Based on the excerpt, the reader can infer that Professor Richmond viewed the discovery of the Roman pit as fascinating because he thought it interesting that they valued the nails so much to keep them out of the reach of their enemies.

A group of lists titled United States History, table of contents. The first list is labeled Unit 1, Colonial America with entries Spanish exploration and settlement, French colonization, English/British Colonial America. Second list is labeled Unit 2, Civil War Era with entries Causes of the war, Secession, The Confederacy, The war begins, Reconstruction.

Based on your preview of the visual, from what kind of book could this table of contents have been taken?
a.
A novel about the civil war
c.
A book of poems about the US revolution
b.
A US history text book
d.
none of the above



Please select the best answer from the choices provided


A
B
C
D

Which line from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet reveals the ending of the play?

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life

what does probability have to do with heredity

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what connects neurons and what chemical help neurons communicate ​

Excerpt from Stuff Matters

By Mark Miodownik

In the absence of copper, gold, and meteoric iron, our ancestors’ tools during the Stone Age were made of flint, wood, and bone. Anyone who has ever tried to make anything with these kinds of tools knows how limiting they are: if you hit a piece of wood it either splinters, cracks, or snaps. The same is true of rock or bone. Metals are fundamentally different from these other materials because they can be hammered into shape: they flow, they are malleable. Not only that, they get stronger when you hit them; you can harden a blade just by hammering it. And you can reverse the process simply by putting metal in a fire and heating it up, which will cause it to get softer. The first people to discover these properties ten thousand years ago had found a material that was almost as hard as a rock but behaved like a plastic and was almost infinitely reusable. In other words, they had discovered the perfect material for tools, and in particular cutting tools like axes, chisels, and razors. This ability of metals to transform from a soft to a hard material must have seemed like magic to our ancient ancestors.

***

In 1961 Professor Richmond from Oxford University discovered a pit that had been dug by the Romans in AD 89. It contained 763,840 small two-inch nails, 85,128 medium nails, 25,088 large nails, and 1,344 extra-large sixteen-inch nails. The hoard was of iron and steel and not gold, which most people would have found bitterly disappointing. But not Professor Richmond. Why, he asked himself, would a Roman legion bury seven tons of iron and steel? The legion had been occupying the advance headquarters of Agricola in a place called Inchtuthil in Scotland. This was at the outer reaches of the Roman Empire, and their mission was to protect its border from what they saw as the savage tribes who threatened it: the Celts. The legion of five thousand men occupied the region for six years before retreating and, in the process, abandoning their fort. They made great efforts to leave behind nothing that could help their enemies. They smashed all food and drink containers and burned the fort to the ground. But they weren’t satisfied with this. In the ashes were the steel nails that had held the fort together, and they were far too valuable to be left to the tribes that had driven them out. Iron and steel were the materials that enabled the Romans to build aqueducts, ships, and swords; they allowed them to engineer an empire. Leaving the nails to their enemies would have been as useful as leaving a cache of weapons, so they buried them in a pit before marching south.
Which line from the excerpt provides context that supports the meaning of the word malleable?

a) metals are fundamentally different

b) hammered into shape

c) they flow

d ) stronger when you hit them

Explain what was the purpose of mythology in the ancient world. In 3-4 complete
sentences.

Source (Topic) What role does music play in our life?

What could be the main idea???

Item 3
Which answer identifies the falling action in “Thank You, M’am”?

A. Mrs. Jones brings Roger to her house.

B.Roger steals a purse from Mrs. Jones.

C. Roger tells Mrs. Jones that he wants blue suede shoes.

D. Mrs. Jones gives Roger $10.

WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST plz help
Civil Disobedience Part 1 Most people remember Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as reformers who practiced non-violent forms of protest and advocacy. Both effectively changed the popular opinion about emotional issues for their countries and brought in a wave of change that was long overdue. But the practice of non-violent protest, or civil disobedience, started long before either Gandhi or King. It began with a quiet, shy poet who is best known for writing a lot about a pond. Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 until 1862, mainly in the area of Concord, Massachusetts. The issue that would tear the country apart in the 1860s had already begun dividing the nation. Thoreau was only 14 when Nat Turner led the slave rebellion in Virginia and was later hanged. In his late 20s, Thoreau began speaking against slavery in public, echoing the voices of freedmen like Frederick Douglass and Lewis Hayden. Thoreau believed that a government that supported slavery was corrupt and immoral. He was also deeply suspicious of government. For these and other reasons, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax for a number of years. The poll tax was a legal tax owed by every person. It was basically a tax on one's body. After not paying for years, he was at last arrested. He spent only one night in jail, however, as a relative paid the tax for him. He was reportedly furious that any tax was paid on his behalf. It was this experience that Thoreau wrote about in an essay called "Civil Disobedience." In this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to government. He wrote “If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." He also felt that voting was not enough to ensure that the right thing be done. He wrote that "even voting for the right is doing nothing for it… A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance…" He felt that one had a moral responsibility to resist unjust laws. Which line from Part 1 best

p a d l e t anyone???
i am b o r e d

On pages 223 and 224, Carlotta mentions several historical events including the March on Washington, where Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech; the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama; and the assassination of President Kennedy. What are Carlotta's reactions to these events? What might account for Carlotta's different reactions to them?

Ambition

Can you use ambition or ambitious in 3 different sentences?

if it's not too much trouble.

I need a help about “The Crucible”

How does the "Life in the wild" contribute to the author's argument in "Excerpt from Marine Mammals in Captivity"?

Read this excerpt from a play.

(The stage lights illuminate a classroom. Tidy rows of desks face a wood stove, a chalkboard, and a teacher’s desk. Piles of books and papers adorn the teacher’s desk. A young girl and teacher are speaking quietly.)

TEACHER: The primary children are studying poetry this afternoon, and I need your assistance. (She gathers a stack of textbooks and hands them to her student.) Please choose a few poems and have the children read along with you.

MARGO: (She reaches for a book) Yes, ma’am. I always enjoy reading to the young ones.

(MARGO retreats to a chair by the window and begins flipping through a book. Two boys sit nearby, giggling about a picture that one of them has drawn.)

Which setting detail reveals the time period?

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How effective do you think the structure of King’s argument is in this passage?


very effective

Which sentence is written in nonstandard English?

I did not have enough money for ice cream.
We was just about to go catch the bus.
I would like one of those candy bars.
The students did very well on their tests.

5. It was not until the invention of the printing press in the 15th century that people could have access to literature. a. Who invented the printing press? b. What was the effect of the invention? c. What do some historians believe about the printing press?

Which body paragraph does the counter-claim and rebuttal go

Pick the sentence that is written correctly.

a
Blakely Tina's sister is a miserable unhappy person.
b
Trent the father of Drew does not help with the dishes at all.
c
Misty, my beautiful wife, enjoys helping others and singing in church.
d
none of the above

What is a warrant?
(This is in context of writing an argumentative essay, not law.)

Answer Choices:
A. The way in which evidence supports a claim
B. An appeal to logic or reason
C. An appeal to fear
D. An argument

In the book unbroken where does Louie grow up

hurry pls!

A. “And they loved her as they had never before loved her.” ( Paragraph 15) B. “how strongly they had been attached to her” ( Paragraph 15) C. “She had been their mainstay, their guide” ( Paragraph 16) D. “They would henceforth be solitary, isolated” ( Paragraph 16)

I NEED HELP PLEASE ENGLISH PEOPLE

IDENTIFYING SENTENCES AND SENTENCE FRAGMENTS Identify each of the following groups of words as a sentence or a sentence fragment. On the line provided, write S for sentence or F for fragment.

Example 1. F After attending the film festival.
2. S The film festival begins Monday.

From as far as India and China, for example, and from as close as our neighbors, Canada and Mexico.​

8. What story does Charles Darnay relay to the Manettes? What is Dr. Manette’s reactions?(A Tale of Two Cities, Book 4)

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how does the speakers word choice for describing flight have an impact on the poems tone high flight




Passage High flight


Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth


And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.


Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth


Of sun-split clouds — and done a hundred things


You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung.


High in the sunlit silence, hov’ring there


I’ve chased the shouting winds along and flung


My eager craft through footless halls of air.


Up, up the long delirious burning blue


I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace


Where never lark nor ever eagle flew


And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod


The high untrespassed sanctity of space,


Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

In Scene 1, N1 says, “The setting sun casts long shadows, making the boys seem taller than they are.” What is the symbolic meaning of this line?