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Chapter V. Mohun Appears For The Last Time In This History

Besides my Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who, for family reasons, had kindly promised his protection and patronage to Colonel Esmond, he had other great friends in power now, both able and willing to assist him, and he might, with such allies, look forward to as fortunate advancement in civil life at home as he had got rapid promotion abroad. His grace was magnanimous enough to offer to take Mr. Esmond as secretary on his Paris embassy, but no doubt he intended that proposal should be rejected; at any rate, Esmond could not bear the thoughts of attending his mistress farther than the church-door after her marriage, and so declined that offer which his generous rival made him.

Other gentlemen, in power, were liberal at least of compliments and promises to Colonel Esmond. Mr. Harley, now become my Lord Oxford and Mortimer, and installed Knight of the Garter on the same day as his grace of Hamilton had received the same honour, sent to the colonel to say that a seat in Parliament should be at his disposal presently, and Mr. St. John held out many flattering hopes of advancement to the colonel when he should enter the House. Esmond's friends were all successful, and the most successful and triumphant of all was his dear old commander, General Webb, who was now appointed Lieutenant-General of the Land Forces, and received with particular honour by the ministry, by the queen, and the people out of doors, who huzza'd the brave chief when they used to see him in his chariot, going to the House or to the Drawing-room, or hobbling on foot to his coach from St. Stephen's upon his glorious old crutch and stick, and cheered him as loud as they had ever done Marlborough.
1. Who are among the people who would help Esmond?
2. Why he would help him?
3. Are there others who would do that too?
4. Are they powerful?
5. Would he succeed with their help?
6. in what?
7. Where?
8. Was he successful abroad?
9. Who did he take as secretary?
10. Where?
11. Where he did not wish to meet someone?
12. whom?
13. When?
14. Did he refuse the offer?
15. Of whom?
16. Were others generous in their promises to him?
17. Who was knighted?
18. Was anyone honored in the same day?
19. Who was that?
20. Who got the command of the land forces?

Numbered answers:
1. Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon
2. for family reasons
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. civil life
7. at home
8. yes
9. Mr. Esmond
10. Paris embassy
11. farther than the church-door
12. his mistress
13. after her marriage
14. yes
15. his rival
16. yes
17. Mr. Harley
18. yes
19. Hamilton
20. General Webb

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Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a space. For example, lowercase j would become binary 1101010 and decimal 106. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (many now obsolete) that affect how text and space are processed and 95 printable characters, including the space (which is considered an invisible graphic:223).

The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together, and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two columns (32 positions) were reserved for control characters.:220, 2368,9) The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20hex;:23710 for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes,:228, 23714 as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code. Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase. To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.:23818 The digits 09 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward.
1. What was this based on?
2. What are they converted to?
3. How many are there?
4. How many print?
5. What is a surprising printable character?
6. What is classified as an invisible picture?
7. What is its number?
8. What are the first two groups saved for?
9. What comes before them?
10. Why?

Numbered answers:
1. the English alphabet
2. seven-bit integers
3. 128
4. 95
5. unknown
6. the space
7. 223
8. control characters
9. space
10. to make sorting easier,

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"Your first home," Laurence Yep wrote in his book, The Lost Garden, "will always be the one that you remember best. I have been away from it for over twenty years, but I still go back in my dreams." For Yep, whose father came from China, home was an apartment and the family grocery store in a neighborhood of San Francisco. It was there that he learned about patience, hard work, and getting along with neighbors.

Mr. Brown, Laurence Yep's high school English teacher, often set high goals for his students. He was the first person to encourage Yep to write. The experience of that class changed the direction of Yep's life. At the age of 18 Yep published his first short story, a sci-fi fantasy. He has since written many books and many kinds of books. He has retold Chinese folk stories and written for the theater. In nearly all these varied works, Yep, who is married to the children's book author Joanne Ryder, has returned to questions he has been asking himself since childhood: What does it mean to be Chinese and American? Can one who belongs to two cultures ever feel at home anywhere?

When asked, "How has being of a Chinese by origin been important to you?" Laurence Yep replied, "As a child I wanted to be as American as possible. Then, in my early twenties, I became very interested in my Chinese roots. For years after that, I thought that my function as a Chinese American writer was to act as a bridge between two cultures. Now, though, I am not so sure that it is possible to join them together. Compared with Asian culture, American culture pays more attention to individuals and competition. The two cultures pull in opposite directions. So I see myself now as someone who will always be on the border between two cultures. That works to my benefit as a writer because not quite fitting in helps me be a better observer."
1. Where did Yep grow up?
2. Where did his father come from?
3. What book title is Yep discussing his home?
4. Who was his high school teacher?
5. Did he influence Yep?
6. What did he influence Yep to do?
7. When did Yep publish his first story?
8. Did his wife write also?
9. What is his wife's name?
10. What does she write about?
11. Did Mr. Brown have high goals for is students?
12. What does Yep compare American culture to?
13. Are they similar according to Yep?
14. Did Yep live in an apartment or house as a child?
15. What did he learn in san francisco as a child?
16. What does Yep see himself as now?
17. When did Yep become interested in his chinese roots?
18. Did Yep want to be more American when he was a child?
19. Does he feel the same way now?
20. Does he feel it is possible to join American and chinese culture?
Numbered answers:
1. San Francisco
2. China
3. The Lost Garden
4. Mr. Brown
5. Yes
6. to write
7. age 18
8. Yes
9. Joanne Ryder,
10. children's books
11. Yes
12. Asian culture
13. No
14. an apartment
15. patience, hard work, and getting along with neighbors.
16. on the border between two cultures
17. early twenties,
18. Yes
19. No
20. No