Identify the context, and significance of the following quotation from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (4-6 good sentences):                         Oh happy living things! No tongue                         Their beauty might declare:                         A spring of love gushed from my heart,                         And I blessed them, unaware:                         Sure my kind saint took pity on me,                         And I blessed them, unaware.

His teeth “they chatter, chatter still. /At night, at morning, and at noon,”

Identify the context and significance of the following quotation from A Christmas Carol (4-6 good sentences):  They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And bide the end!” “Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge. “Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”

 Identify the context and significance of the following quotation from A Christmas Carol (4-6 good sentences): Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.

 Identify the context and significance of the following quotation from A Christmas Carol (4-6 good sentences): Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

 It is described in the following fashion: “For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body:”

She came to the hedge of Harry Gill one evening to collect sticks of wood for her fire.

This telescope from the question above has focal length of objective as 2100mm. You have 2 eyepieces: 15mm & 30mm. Which eyepieces would you use first to locate your first target celestial object? Explain.

What is the primary method used to determine the absolute age of fossils?

Which of the following types of learning contributes most to the development of culture?