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In а digitаl dаta file (usually a .csv, .raw, .tex, оr оthers), each rоw usually denotes
In а digitаl dаta file (usually a .csv, .raw, .tex, оr оthers), each rоw usually denotes
In а digitаl dаta file (usually a .csv, .raw, .tex, оr оthers), each rоw usually denotes
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Pаce yоurself: This questiоn is intended tо tаke 20 minutes. As а principle of universal accessibility, everyone has 1.5 times the designed time for this test, so you may choose to take as many as 30 minutes without impacting your ability to complete the test. Prompt: In three brief paragraphs, Contextualize these two quotations in relation to the plot of the story. To succeed you will need to give specifics about how the relationship between these characters changes over the course of the book that are not found in these quotations. Analyze how they move forward our understanding of (1.) the two character's relationship to nature/trees and (2.) the two character's developing relationship to each other. Synthesize. Your answer should give a plausible account of how these two themes relate to each other. Passage 1 (from "Trunk") He bows his head and fixes on the page. The article stokes his distress. Should trees have standing? This time last month, it would have been his evening's great sport to test the ingenious argument. What can be owned and who can do the owning? What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them? But tonight the words swim. Eight thirty-seven. Everything that was his is going down, and he doesn't even know what brought on disaster. The terrible logic of the essay begins to wear him down. Children, women, slaves, aboriginals, the ill, insane, and disabled: all changed, unthinkably, over the centuries into persons by the law. So why shouldn't trees and eagles and rivers and living mountains be able to sue humans for theft and endless damages? The whole idea is a holy nightmare, a death dance of justice like the one he now lives through, watching the second hand of his watch refuse to move. His entire career until this moment - protecting the property of those with a right to grow - begins to seem like one long war crime, like something he'll be imprisoned for, come the revolution. The proposal is bound to sound odd or frightening or laughable. This is partly because until the rightless thing receives its rights, we cannot see it as anything but a thing for the use of 'us' - those who are holding rights at the time. Eight forty-two, and he's desperate. He'll do anything now, to deceive her, to make her think he has no idea. Her fit of craziness will run its course. The fever that has turned her into someone he can't recognize will burn away and leave her well again. Shame will bring her back to herself, and she'll remember everything. The years. The time they went to Italy. The time they jumped from a plane. The time she ran the car into a tree while reading his anniversary letter and almost killed herself. The amateur theatrics. The things they planned together, in the backyard they made. It is no answer to say that streams and forests cannot have standing because streams and forests cannot speak. Corporations cannot speak, either; nor can states, estates, infants, incompetents, municipalities, or universities. Lawyers speak for them. Passage 2 (from "Seeds") In silence, he walks his lifelong partner through old and central principles of jurisprudence, one syllable at a time. Stand your ground. The castle doctrine. Self-help. If you could save yourself, your wife, your child, or even a stranger by burning something down, the law allows you to. If someone breaks into your home and starts destroying it, you may stop them however you need to. His few syllables are mangled and worthless. She shakes her head. "I can't get you, [NAME]. Say it some other way." He can find no way to say what so badly needs saying. Our home has been broken into. Our lives are being endangered. The law allows for all necessary force against unlawful and imminent harm. His face turns the color of sunset, scaring her. Her arm goes out to calm him. "No worries, Ray. It's just words. Everything's fine" In mounting excitement, he sees how he must win the case. Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet's lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.