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The largest oil supply in the Americas comes from tar sands.

What type of character is Montressor in “The Cask of Amontillado”?

Plants that take up heavy metals found in water would be an example of

What element of fiction is present in the following quote from “The Yellow Wallpaper”? “That spoils my ghostliness, I am afraid, but I don’t care—there is something strange about the house—I can feel it.”

Worldwide, air pollution control efforts are least advanced or least successful in major cities of developing countries.

What type of character is Phoenix Jackson in “A Worn Path”?  

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in North America occurred around New Madrid Missouri in 1812.

What type of irony, if any, is present in the following quote from “The Cask of Amontillado”?  “Come,” I said, with decision, “we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible.”

An S corporation avoids taxes at

Federal labor laws governing union-employer relations