Last Meow Part 1 Questions

Section 1:
1) Lady has chronic renal failure which will require dialysis and a kidney transplant, a procedure worth $15,000.
2) Shawn is a compassionate mechanic. I know this because Bilger set aside a whole paragraph to describe him.
3) Cathy is a good samaritan.
4) Shawn is willing to pay for Lady's treatment because both himself and his wife had had many procedures for themselves in the past. If I had known this before reading that his cat was sick, I would never have doubted that he would pay for her treatment.

Section 3:
1) Shawn and Karen are sympathetic, helpful people, despite their many setbacks, and have proven that love can surpass the boundaries of species.

The Last Meow

Pets are not very important to me. I sort of like having a pet, but I wouldn't be too torn if I didn't. Right now I have two guinea pigs (well one is my nephew's), but I don't play with them that much. I feel guilty sometimes but it's dismissible. Basically if it's caged, I pay it the same attention as I would a fish.
I can really see myself with a family dog later on in life, though. The most fun I've had with pets was with my last dog, little bear (I had named him when I was 9). We weren't too close but that was probably because he was a monster who preferred my sister and I just preferred larger dogs; he was a Pomeranian who barked at doors..

No habla English.

The first day of school led to the last day of three kids lives. Yaquiline, the (lothario), Yessica, the (maverick), and Yanessa, the (nemesis) of Yaquiline. On that day, they experienced a (philipic) between each other in English class. It started fine, they all sat down in class while Mr. Schreiber introduced himself and the class. They figured out he was a (jingoist), because he was wearing a red, white, and blue tuxedo. But after seeing that, they realized who was amongst them. . . the infamous “Y Ladies.”
Yaqualine, and Yanessa, hated each other because Yaquiline took a bite of Yanessa’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich, which led to Yanessa calling Yaqualin (tawdry). Yaqualine, or “Yaquie”, stated that as a (philanderer), she slept with Yanessa’s boyfriend. Yanessa’s previous view of as a (quixotic) young girl, immediately went away.
One day Yessica came to school and yelled at Yanessa and Yaqualine using (solecism), Yessica couldn’t say anything because she felt (saturnine) because of all those spicy chicken burgers that she ate. Yaqualine didnt really care because she was a (Procrustean), she was tired of arguing. So the rivalry between Yanessa and Yaqualine came to an end. Many people say it was a (Pyrrhic), because even after the argument, they still were not friends.
But the weird part of the story is, why didn’t Yessica get involved? She has the (spoonerism) of words that confuses the Y Ladies to death. But recently she found the Y Ladies (protean) and unbearable. She could have won this argument and be the number one Y lady and live as a (sybarite) for the rest of her life!!

English Handbook Answers

1) The heading belongs in the upper left corner.
2) She wore huge dark glasses, no one recognized her.
3) A comma splice is when two sentences are improperly joined by a comma, and a fused sentence is when the two sentences just run on together, with no punctuation separating them.
4) Commas can be used to separate introductory clauses, phrases, or conjunctive adverbs from the rest of the sentence, and to create a pause.
5) A semicolon creates a stronger pause than a period; it can also be used to link two related sentences together or to list items in a long series.
6) Numbers less than or equal to ninety-nine should be spelled out.
7) Yes, plays may be underlined or typed in italics.
8) Affect, as a verb, can mean "feign" or "pretend to feel" while effect, as a verb, means "bring about" or "perform."
9) There: pronoun for a place.
Their: used to show possession.
They're: a contraction for "they are".
10) Parallel structures are used to express parallel elements in the same grammatical form.
Ex. The bunny jumped, skampered, and twisted.

Pennies for thought.

If I had to die for something prematurely, I would die for an idea that would affect a future person's lively-hood. I wouldn't want my death to be in vain. At the moment, I cannot think of a situation that satisfies these standards. The point of life in our current time seems to be to just float along, at least to anyone that sees what matters. I'm afraid of the idea of "progress" in years past, that is something not worth dying for.

Project reflection

We sucked. But not too much. So I'm not upset really. I just wish that a few more people would have taken the project a little more seriously. Like me, I could have done more.

Rumorsez

I'll admit, I eavesdrop, but I don't spread or start rumors. When a rumor would float on by, I'd just listen and lol to myself. Until I heard a rumor about myself. A close friend of mine had been going through a rough trip with her boyfriend, so I was talking her though it. Someone saw us talking seemingly in 'like' and mouthed like the wind. When It came back to me, I was a little skeptical, but to be safe I brought it up with my girlfriend. She just loled to herself.

Trust

I can't remember a time when I've lost the trust of a loved one. I've lost love, but not trust. If I had been in that type of situation before, I probably didn't notice because it went something like this:

Me: Hey where were you?

Them: Oh I was at blankity-blank's by the slip-slop.

Me: Oh yeah, I slept through that call.

Instead I try not to do anything to betray my loved ones' trust in me.