“We Real Cool” The Pool Players, Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. The speaker suggests that the Pool Players  

“Thus she had lain/sugar cane sweet/deserts her hair/golden her feet/mountains her breasts/two Niles her tears.” These lines from Maya Angelou’s poem “Africa” represent an example of

Often the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy. It has been afraid too long ever to be free of fear. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. Indeed, after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it, and darkness for its eyes, and its own excrement to sit in.   from “The Ones Who Walk Way from Omelas” In the story, LeGuin draws attention to 

“Song: To Lucasta…” Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,          That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind          To war and arms I fly. True: a new mistress now I chase,          The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace          A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such          As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much,          Lov’d I not Honour more. The speaker of this poem has decided to leave his companion because

Definiciones. Empareja cada palabra con su definición. ¡Cuidado! hay cinco palabras que no tienen pareja. 

Pretérito Completa las oraciones con la forma  correcta  del pretérito de los verbos entre paréntesis. Debes deletrear correctamente y recuerda usar la tilde (acento escrito) cuando sea necesario. No vas a recibir puntos si no la usas correctamente. ¡Cuidado con los verbos reflexivos! No te olvides de usar el pronombre correctamente también para obtener los puntos. Yo [1] (saber) que ella vendría para hacerme unas preguntas. El agua [2] (hervir) muy rápidamente. Luisa [3] (tener) que trabajar hasta tarde anoche. Me lo [4] (decir) Susana y no le creí. Mis padres [5] (ponerse) furiosos porque llegué muy tarde a casa. ¿ [6] (hacer) tú la tarea? Ayer, la niña [7] (vestirse) sola por primera vez. Su padre [8] (morir) hace muchos años. Carlos [9] (sentirse) muy mal después de comer pescado crudo. La última vez que ustedes [10] (venir) aquí no me ayudaron en nada.

Which of the following structures is not a part of the brain stem?

This type of neuron sends impulses from the periphery to the spinal cord.

Which of the following nerves is not a part of the Lumbosacral plexus?

What is the area where the cerebral spinal fluid circulates around the brain and spinal cord?