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Randy was a boy who loved to eat spaghetti. One day he met a girl named Hilda. People said that Hilda made the best spaghetti in the world. So Randy wanted to try some of Hilda's spaghetti. He asked Hilda, "Hilda, would you make me some spaghetti please?" Hilda said, "Sure! Just come to my house tomorrow!" So the next day Randy went to Hilda's house, sat down in the dining room, and waited.

Then Hilda came out with a big plate of spaghetti with spinach soup. The only problem was that the spaghetti was bright blue. Randy said, "This spaghetti is blue! The soup is blue also! I hate the color blue and I won't eat any blue food!" This made Hilda sad, and she started to cry. This made Randy feel bad so he said, "It's okay, Hilda. Don't cry. I'll let you try again."

So Hilda made a new plate of spaghetti for Randy. This time it wasn't blue and came with a salad with cheese. Randy said, "That's much better!" Then he started to eat. Suddenly Randy spit out all the spaghetti because there was a big nasty bug in it. This made Randy very angry and he threw all the spaghetti on the floor. Hilda said, "I'm so sorry, I don't know how that got there!" Randy calmed down and said, "I'm sorry too. Let's forget the spaghetti. I can eat the salad instead." When Randy finished the salad, Hilda asked if Randy wanted dessert. Randy said "no" because he was too full.
1. What did Randy like?
2. Who did he meet?
3. named?
4. What did they say about her?
5. What did Randy want?
6. What did he ask?
7. her response?
8. When was she going to?
9. where?
10. Where did Randy go?
11. and sat where?
12. What did Hilda do?
13. with what?
14. anything else?
15. Was there a problem?
16. what?
17. What did Randy say?
18. What else was?

Numbered answers:
1. to eat spaghetti.
2. a girl
3. Hilda.
4. she made the best spaghetti
5. to try some
6. would you make me some spaghetti please
7. Sure!
8. tomorrow
9. her house
10. Hilda's house
11. the dining room
12. Came out
13. a big plate of spaghetti
14. spinach soup.
15. yes
16. the spaghetti was bright blue
17. This spaghetti is blue
18. The soup

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- A jury began deliberating Wednesday afternoon in actress Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination lawsuit against "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry.

The jury of nine women and three men is to decide whether Cherry killed off a Sheridan's character in retaliation for the actress complaining that he hit her during a rehearsal for the ABC comedy. A verdict requires the agreement of nine jurors.

Sheridan is asking for $5.7 million in damages from ABC and Cherry, although the actress was paid $4 million in her last year of work and is still earning royalties from her vested interest in the hit series.

Sheridan lawyer Mark Baute, in his closing Wednesday morning, told jurors they have two questions to answer: Did Cherry hit Sheridan on the head on September 24, 2008, or was it a "light tap," as the defense claims? And, did Cherry get ABC's approval to kill Sheridan's character in May 2008, as the defense claims, or was the decision made in December, after a human resources investigator cleared him in the slapping incident?

Baute called Cherry a "really obvious liar" who was covering up the real reason he killed off Edie Britt, the sassy blonde character Sheridan played for the show's first five seasons.

He accused other ABC employees of conspiring to cover up evidence that it was a revenge firing in order to protect a show that has earned over $1 billion in eight seasons.

Cherry and ABC claim they decided Britt would die in season five in May 2008, four months before the incident in which Cherry allegedly struck Sheridan.
1. Who is Marc Cherry?
2. Who was suing him?
3. For what?
4. How many jurors decided the case?
5. How many must be in agreement?
6. How much did Sheridan earn her last year on the show?
7. What was her lawyer asking for in damages?
8. What did Sheridan allege Cherry fired her for?
9. for what?
10. How was her character written off the show?
11. What was her name?
12. What season was she killed?
13. Who is Mark Baute?
14. What has he accused ABC employees of doing?

Numbered answers:
1. Desperate Housewives creator
2. Nicollette Sheridan
3. Wrongful termination
4. 12
5. Nine
6. $4 million
7. $5.7 million
8. Retaliation
9. She said that he hit her during a rehearsal
10. She was killed off
11. unknown
12. 2008,
13. Sheridan's lawyer
14. Lying

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A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.
1. who is the fleet carrier meant to work with
2. what do they provide
3. what were escort carriers made for?
4. what are the ones used by Russia called?
5. what were they designed for?
6. what did they support?
7. which is the fastest?
8. why do the light aircrafts of a smaller size?
9. who uses the Soviet carriers now?
10. what is added on top?

Numbered answers:
1. main fleet
2. an offensive capability.
3. to provide defense for convoys of ships.
4. called heavy aviation cruisers
5. were designed to deploy alone or with escorts
6. fighters and helicopters.
7. A fleet carrier
8. reduced aircraft capacity
9. Russia
10. flight deck

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Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations. As such, the meaning of the expression varies widely both between and within societies, and depends significantly on context. For many other individuals, communities and countries, "black" is also perceived as a derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label, and as a result is neither used nor defined.

Different societies apply differing criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and these social constructs have also changed over time. In a number of countries, societal variables affect classification as much as skin color, and the social criteria for "blackness" vary. For example, in North America the term black people is not necessarily an indicator of skin color or majority ethnic ancestry, but it is instead a socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a family history associated with institutionalized slavery. In South Africa and Latin America, for instance, mixed-race people are generally not classified as "black." In South Pacific regions such as Australia and Melanesia, European colonists applied the term "black" or it was used by populations with different histories and ethnic origin.
1. Is what "black" means consistent across different groups?
2. Is it used everywhere?
3. Why not?
4. What is a basic definition?
5. In comparison to others?
6. Where is the term related to slaves?
7. Does it indicate skin color there?
8. Where aren't mixed race people described as black?
9. What is a societal construct for being black?
10. Where did European colonists use the word black?
Numbered answers:
1. No
2. No
3. derogatory, outdated, reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label
4. persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned
5. Yes
6. North America
7. not necessarily
8. South Pacific regions
9. societal variables affect classification as much as skin color
10. South Pacific regions