Question: A 29-year-old who admitted leaking details of a secret U.S. government program that collects massive phone and Internet data now says he doesn't want attention.

Too late, Edward Snowden. You're getting it -- on every scale, good and bad, across the Internet on social media and on every news broadcast. People of every age and range of experience, including national security experts, are weighing in on what you've done.

Some love you, others despise you. You're now a lightning rod for spirited debate surrounding government transparency versus public protection against the threat of terrorism.

Like WikiLeaks' source Bradley Manning, now on trial for leaking secrets, Snowden said he independently decided that the program was counter to American principles and should be revealed.

"There is no public oversight," he told the Guardian newspaper.

Like Manning, he went outside the system, and critics are blasting the computer expert for not airing concerns internally.

Snowden's actions have united some strange bedfellows. Left-leaning filmmaker Michael Moore and right-leaning commentator Glenn Beck tweeted that they think he's a "hero."

Democratic senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky say they're worried the government could be overreaching with the program. Opensecrets.org lists Snowden as contributing to the 2012 presidential campaign of Rand Paul's father, libertarian Ron Paul.

Dozens of Facebook pages supporting Snowden have popped up in the past day. There are at least 2 million mentions of the North Carolina native on Twitter. Comments are so wide-ranging it's hard to put a finger on one theme, but social media aggregator BuzzFeed says that the word "hero" pops up more on Twitter than "traitor." 1. Where is Snowden from?
2. What does Micheal Moore call him?
3. What about Glenn Beck?
4. Why is it odd that they agree?
5. What did they both use to say this?
6. What did Snowden not want?
7. How much is he getting?
8. Is he being talked about in the news?
9. On social media?
10. What kind of experts are giving opinions on him?
11. What did he do to get this attention?
12. Why?
13. What did the program do?
14. What media outlet did he speak to?
15. Did he make his decision alone?
16. What kind of expert is he?
17. How old is he?
18. Is public opinion split on him?
19. How many times has his name come up on Twitter?
20. What is he called most often? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. North Carolina
2. a "hero."
3. the same
4. One leans left; the other leans right.
5. Twitter
6. attention.
7. A lot.
8. yes
9. yes
10. national security experts
11. published about a national information system
12. he thought the program was un American
13. collects massive phone and Internet data
14. the Guardian
15. yes
16. computer expert
17. 29
18. yes
19. 2 million times
20. "hero"

Question: The first day my new teacher walked into our school in Spanish Harlem, I burst out laughing. Ron Clark was a young white guy from North Carolina who talked with a funny Southern accent . He said he used to be a singing waiter. I thought, who is this guy? He's a complete joke.

It was 1999 and I was in the fifth grade at New York City's P.S. 83. _ . I'd always been a troublemaker. I'd get yelled at, and then the teachers would give up on me. I thought that's what would happen with Ron Clark.

I was wrong. That first week, I kept mocking him. He pulled me out to the hallway and said I'd better shape up. "Tamara," he said, "you're a smart kid. You can do better."

He told me I was a natural leader and that I'd go far in life if I started applying myself. I was mad at first, but then something happened: I began to respect him. There were 29 students in our class, and it didn't take long for us to realize that Ron Clark was no ordinary teacher.

He was only 27 and had the most unusual way of teaching. To help us learn the states and capitals, he changed the lyrics of a popular rap hit called "Thong Song" and had us sing and dance with him. When we read the Harry Potter books, he decorated our classroom like Hogwarts. And during the Presidential election, he put campaign posters on the walls and covered the room with 5,000 red, white and blue stars. 1. WHO WAS THE TEACHER
2. WHERE WAS HE FROM
3. WHERE DID HE TEACH
4. WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD
5. WHAT WAS HE PRIOR TO TEACHING
6. WHO IS TELLING THE STORY
7. DID SHE FIND HIM FUNNY
8. WAS SHE RESPECTFUL
9. DID HE HAVE FAITH IN HER
10. WAS SHE A PROBLEM CHILD
11. HOW MANY IN THE CLASS
12. DID HE TEACH LIKE OTHERS
13. HOW DID HE TEACH THE ABOUT THE U.S.
14. WHAT KIND OF READING MATERIAL
15. WHERE DID HE SAY TO HER
16. WHAT ELSE Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Ron Clark
2. North Carolina
3. New York City's P.S. 83
4. Spanish Harlem
5. singing waiter
6. Tamara
7. He's a complete joke
8. no
9. yes
10. She was always a troublemaker
11. 29 students
12. no
13. He rewrote words to poplular rap music.
14. Harry Potter
15. I'd better shape up
16. a natural leader and that I'd go far in life if I started applying myself

Question: CHAPTER I

GUY POYNTON AGAIN

"I Suppose," the boy said thoughtfully, "I must seem to you beastly ungrateful. You've been a perfect brick to me ever since that night. But I can't help being a bit homesick. You see, it was really the first time I'd ever been away from home for long, and though my little place isn't a patch on this, of course, still, I was born there, and I'm jolly fond of it."

His companion nodded, and his dark eyes rested for a moment upon the other's face. Guy Poynton was idly watching the reapers at work in the golden valley below, and he did not catch his friend's expression.

"You are very young, _mon cher ami_," he said. "As one grows older one demands change. Change always of scene and occupation. Now I, too, am most hideously bored here, although it is my home. For me to live is only possible in Paris--Paris, the beautiful."

Guy looked away from the fields. He resented a little his friend's air of superiority.

"There's only a year's difference in our ages!" he remarked.

Henri de Bergillac smiled--this time more expressively than ever, and held out his hands.

"I speak of experience, not years," he said. "You have lived for twenty years in a very delightful spot no doubt, but away from everything which makes life endurable, possible even, for the child of the cities. I have lived for twenty-one years mostly in Paris. Ah, the difference!"

Guy shrugged his shoulders, and leaned back in his chair. 1. What was Poynton watching in the valley below?
2. Where did Bergillac say he wants to live?
3. Does he live there?
4. What is the difference in ages between the friends?
5. Does Bergillac say Poynton is very young?
6. Does Bergillac want to live in the present location?
7. Is Poynton fond of where he was born?
8. Is he a little homesick?
9. What does Poynton call Bergillac?
10. What does Bergillac say happens when one grows older?
11. Did Poynton feel resentful about this? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. the reapers
2. Paris
3. no
4. one year
5. yes
6. no
7. yes
8. yes
9. a perfect brick
10. demands change
11. yes, a little