Question:
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Is there anything the latest cell phone can't do? It can record movies, surf the net, and download the newest MP3 songs, but don't let those fancy features fool you.

After all, chances are that phones have a Global Positioning System (GPS) chip. GPS lets phone companies determine the location of your phone at all times. If you are hurt and call 911, rescuers can find you by using your phone's GPS.

But emergency officials aren't the only people interested in knowing where you are. Several new companies are using cell phones with GPS to monitor teen drivers for _ parents.

The programs vary, but most of them allow parents to use the Internet to monitor their kids' locations, driving habits and speed. Some programs even let parents set speed and location limits so that they are alerted if their kids drive too fast or go beyond a predetermined boundary.

Supporters of monitoring say that the programs also help if a teen is kidnapped or lost. Andrea Gutierrez uses a driving program to help her daughter get home. "I give her directions by looking at an online map, which shows me where she is".

Jean Nichols, 17, says that parents are forgetting one very important thing: trust. "I don't like the idea of someone using a device that keeps tabs on me."

Others say the information could be misused. "If everyone can find out exactly where your 17-year-old girl is at all times, it will present a potentially dangerous problem," Hohn Lawford told the Ottawa Citizen.

Alana Watenpuhl, 19, says that teens can easily outsmart the programs. "Teens can always leave their cell phones somewhere and then go out with their friends. It's not likely that the chips are attached to their bodies," she told reporters. "But who knows?" she added. "That might be what's coming next."
1. What do programs use to see where people are?
2. What does that stand for?
3. Where can you find this?
4. Are parents using this now?
5. For what?
6. Is Andrea Gutierrez a mother?
7. What does she help her daughter do?
8. How does she locate her?
9. What does Alana Watenpuhl think of the programs?
10. By who?
11. would this be hard for them?
12. What's one simple thing they can do?
13. When?
14. What does she wonder might be next?
15. Is Jean Nichols fond of the programs?
16. What does he think is being violated?
17. How old is he?
18. What kind of restrictions can be set on kids by their parents?
19. What kind of speed would cause an alert to be sent?
20. What kind of boundaries can be broken?

Numbered answers:
1. GPS
2. Global Positioning System
3. cell phones
4. yes
5. tmonitor kid's location and driving habits
6. yrs
7. get home
8. an online map
9. they can be outsmarted
10. teens
11. no
12. leave their phones somewhere
13. when they go out
14. Imicrochips on their bodies
15. no
16. trust
17. 17
18. speed and location
19. high speed
20. location

Question:
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CHAPTER XIX

DEFEAT OF THE ENGLISH

The explosion of the musket had been so unexpected that for the moment Dave and Henry hardly knew what had happened. Dave felt something hit him on the bottom of his left cheek and putting up his hand withdrew it covered with blood. Henry, too, was hit by a flying fragment of the gun barrel which clipped off a lock of his hair. Poor Barringford lay like one dead.

Before Dave could recover the Indians were on them, whooping as if their very lives depended upon it. One threw a tomahawk at Dave, but the aim was poor and the weapon buried itself in the log which had sheltered our friends.

But just at this moment, when all seemed lost, the battleground shifted and instantly thirty or forty English red-coats burst from the woods directly behind the Indians. A volley rang out and four of the redmen pitched forward, shot through the back. Other bullets hit the log behind which our friends lay, but Dave, Henry, and Barringford were not touched.

Attacked so unexpectedly from a new quarter, the Indians appeared dazed. They attempted to turn upon the English soldiers, but when two more were laid low, they fled to one side, where there was a dense growth of walnuts. The soldiers at once made after them, and another skirmish took place in the forest.

"Are you hurt much, Sam?" asked Henry, when he had recovered sufficiently to speak.

"I--I reckon not," was the gasped-out answer, after a long silence. Barringford opened his eyes and gazed ruefully at the gun stock which lay at his feet. "Busted! Well, by gum! Didn't think Old Trusty would do it nohow. Ain't ye ashamed?" And he shook his head dolefully. He had carried the firearm for many years, as our old readers know, and to have it "go back on him" like this hurt him more than had the explosion.
1. What exploded?
2. Who felt something hit him?
3. Where was he hit?
4. Was anyone else hit?
5. Who were they battling?
6. What side were they on?
7. Where did they flee to?
8. Was Sam seriously hurt?
9. What wasOld Trusty?
10. Did bullets hit a log?
11. What chapter is this?
12. What is the title?
13. Where did another skirmish take place?

Numbered answers:
1. the musket
2. Dave
3. his left cheek
4. Henry and Barringford
5. Indians
6. the English (the red-coats)
7. the Indians attempted to turn upon the English
8. no
9. a firearm
10. it backfired
11. XIX (19)
12. DEFEAT OF THE ENGLISH
13. in the forest.

Question:
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A parody (; also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, or lampoon) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original workits subject, author, style, or some other targetby means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, "parody is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music (although "parody" in music has an earlier, somewhat different meaning than for other art forms), animation, gaming, and film.

The writer and critic John Gross observes in his "Oxford Book of Parodies", that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche ("a composition in another artist's manner, without satirical intent") and burlesque (which "fools around with the material of high literature and adapts it to low ends"). Meanwhile, the "Encyclopedie" of Denis Diderot distinguishes between the parody and the burlesque, "A good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable buffoonery which can only please the populace." Historically, when a formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the 1910s, it retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by the Buster Keaton shorts that mocked that genre.
1. Who wrote "Oxford Book of Parodies?"
2. What Is his profession?
3. He said parody flourishes somewhere between what and what?
4. What's another word for a parody?
5. What else?
6. Does a parody make fun of someone or something?
7. By what means?
8. Who is Linda Hutcheon?
9. Who wrote "Encyclopedie"
10. Does he think a good parody is funny, even to scholars?
11. What does he call burlesque?
12. Who mocked melodramas?
13. What was basically wrong with those melodramas?
14. Who did Diderot think enjoyed burlesque?
Numbered answers:
1. John Gross
2. he is a writer
3. pastiche and burlesque
4. a spoof
5. a send-up
6. it can
7. imitation
8. a literary theorist
9. Denis Diderot
10. Yes
11. a miserable buffoonery
12. Buster Keaton
13. the formula grew tired
14. the populace