tone of the story "my secret pepsi plot"

Answer:

In 1988, when my family declared its desire to emigrate, our homeland imposed a brutal discouragement: No person could leave with more than several hundred dollars’ worth of possessions on hand. (What would you take? My mother tried to bring her wedding ring, but it was seized at customs.)

In the Soviet Union, we were secretly wealthy, but we arrived in Brooklyn as paupers. We patrolled curbsides, washed floors for $3 an hour and reused paper towels. I was 10 years old, and I helped how I could. It’s an old story for immigrant kids: You learn English faster than the adults, becoming their ambassador in this new world. You argue with Nynex over the 10-cent discrepancy on the telephone bill and with the grocery clerk over how the potatoes are rung up; joy is when you manage to ease the anxiety on the faces of people who, until now, were the ones you looked to for reassurance and calm. You wish you were old enough to earn real money instead.

I don’t remember how 24 Pepsi-Colas ended up in our fridge. I can’t imagine the adults springing for such an indulgence. There must have been a sale. Then again, our first Pepsi, in transit to America, had been dizzying — that aristocratically minimalist little can, with its sine wave of a logo, was finally in my hands. How lightheaded I was after gulping the bubbles too quickly. (But memory misleads: It was my first Pepsi, the indulgence sprung only for me.)

On Saturday afternoon, with my parents out and my grandmother resting, I washed each can as if it were a newborn — water, soap, swish, repeat. I didn’t know how stringent the checking at the supermarket would be, so I would give the inspectors no excuse to turn me away. I washed, dried (Mom’s hair dryer) and restacked the cans as if I were handling diamonds. But when I wedged my nose into a couple of the openings, I couldn’t help catching a whiff of the Ivory soap that — fool! — I had used; it was the cheapest, and it smelled that way too. Now Super Duper would never accept them!

Around this time I learned that American supermarkets gave back 5 cents for every returned empty. (Some states, like Michigan, its very name like a granite monument, gave you 10 cents.) I decided I would return those cans and give the money to my parents. My secret — a surprise. The problem: No one else in the family would touch them. The indulgence remained for the child.

On Saturday afternoon, with my parents out and my grandmother resting, I washed each can as if it were a newborn — water, soap, swish, repeat. I didn’t know how stringent the checking at the supermarket would be, so I would give the inspectors no excuse to turn me away. I washed, dried (Mom’s hair dryer) and restacked the cans as if I were handling diamonds. But when I wedged my nose into a couple of the openings, I couldn’t help catching a whiff of the Ivory soap that — fool! — I had used; it was the cheapest, and it smelled that way too. Now Super Duper would never accept them!

The apartment ticking with a sunny weekend afternoon’s silence, I crept into my parents’ bedroom, where, on a lacquered bureau, my mother kept her one indulgence: a bottle of Climat perfume from Paris. I tiptoed back into the hallway to make sure Grandmother was still sleeping. Then I sprayed the Climat 24 times into 24 washed-and-blow-dried Pepsi cans.

My heart beat so fast when I stole out of the apartment, Grandmother snoring lightly, that I don’t remember the walk to the supermarket. I do remember the lines — the Italian mothers of Bensonhurst were shopping for the week. But the kid among them got his turn. I gazed at the cashier with helplessness and pre-emptive resentment. Please, I thought. Please. She rang up my cans with all the ceremony of, well, a bottle return and handed me a dollar and four nickels. I don’t think she looked at me once. I stood there, vibrating slightly.

It would be some time before I learned that the bottle deposit is factored into the original cost of the bottle. I was merely reimbursing my parents for something already due to them. But that afternoon, returning from the store, my feet didn’t feel the pavement. At home, Grandmother was waking to a missing 10-year-old; somewhere in the neighborhood, the other adults were going curbside to curbside to check for loot; and I was running toward them with their ransom burning a fire in my pocket.

Explanation:

What does the word specify mean?
A. To compare or contrast
B. Identify clearly
C. To be rude and grumpy

Anybody help me to


write 10 examples of past perfect continuous tense.​

What do the Dursleys tell Harry about how his parents died?
Why do you think they tell him this?

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(So my friend asked) Which sentence uses a semicolon
correctly?
A. The exercises, as in the other instance, took
place immediately; and in the arena.
B. The criminal could not know out of which
door would come the lady; he opened either he
pleased.
C. If he opened the one, there came out of it a
hungry tiger; the fiercest that could be procured.
(I said if it’s A he said it was C) was I right or was my friend right?

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pronunciation
idiom
language
vocabulary

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a scientific theory
a scientific theory

a scientific law
a scientific law

a scientific investigation
a scientific investigation

a scientific hypothesis
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Sugar changed the world, part 5

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1.What is an inference?(1 point)
a. the general attitude of a text
b.the special words used in a subject such as art, science, or mathematics
c. a conclusion, based on evidence, about something that is not stated directly in a text
d. the facts and information that support an idea or analysis use the sentence to answer the question. Opals can be worth a lot of money.

2. Which piece of evidence supports this inference? (1 point)

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b. In the heat of day, people are nowhere to be found, each hidden in an opal mine or dugout.

c. One of Coober Pedy's most popular destinations, the mine provides visitors with an opportunity to learn about the search for opals and the struggles of Coober Pedy's earlie

1. Choose the odd one out: *
1 point
A. astronaut
B. student
C. morning
D. engineer

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Which of the following inferences about Rikki-tikki-tavi is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 7)?

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the small boy's shoulder.
Group of answer choices

It is not in Rikki-tikki’s nature to be afraid.

Rikki-tikki is not your typical mongoose.

Rikki-tikki is overwhelmed by his new surroundings.

Rikki-tikki had never seen a human being before this.

The farmer, as well as his sons,…………. maize.

a.grows
b.were going
c.grew
d.have been growing​

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A) contraction
B) deletion
C) reference
D)dependence​

4 difference between a table and a graph​

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A. when she was younger she believed in fairy tales.
B. Her favorite fairy had long red hair and purple wings.
C. faries helped her imagination grow.
D. She thought faires were beautiful and mysterious.

What does this quote mean?

"Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty."​

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What rhetorical appeals does Mink use?
How are they effective?

Rhetorical Devices
What rhetorical devices does Mink use to strengthen her argument?
How are they effective?

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How many literary devices do we have in English Literature?

(RI.2.5) Read this sentence from the article.
I wonder what it would be like to have lived in a house where there were ruler
marks beside a door frame, documenting each of my childhood growth
spurts; to have a friend who's known me since nursery, not to feel like a
tourist, wandering around with a map in a country that I'm supposed to
embrace as my own
How does this sentence contribute to the effectiveness of the author's
argument overall?

Ever since the American English has come to differ more and more from its British English cousin. Why?