![]() ![]() five ingredients were selected for this special burning: milk, cheese, butter, honey, and sugar cane. by placing offerings in a special fire, a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods. yet fire was also a way for humans to reach the gods. people believed that the gods gave fire to human beings. the hindu writings tell us of a religion in which fire was extremely important. only hundreds of years later were they finally written down. ![]() these hindu sacred teachings were probably first gathered together sometime between 1500 and 900 b. so the first documents telling us about life in that region come from a much later period. unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. long before the first pyramids were built in egypt, the ancient sumerians traded with the people of harappa and mohenjo daro, who lived along the indus river. but it is in india, where it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies, that we have the first written record of sugar. ![]() Read the passage from sugar changed the world. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife he feared he would shriek. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil it had the same ringing quality. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. ![]()
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