Why is "age unnecessary"?

Goneril and Regan are only extreme examples of human nature. Shakespeare was taking a common phenomenon, as he often did, and embellishing on it for dramatic purposes. Many children find their parents a burden and nuisance after they are fully grown and have their own families to raise and lives to lead. King Lear is an extreme example of an aging parent who becomes an annoyance. He even seems to realize this himself when he pretends to be speaking to his daughter Goneril:
Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;
Kneeling
Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.
This is a situation being enacted on a smaller scale in homes all across America. Married couples with families are confronted with the problem of caring for an aged father or mother. The parent may create conflict in their homes, but sending him or her to a nursing home can be ruinously expensive and may seem heartless. If the nursing home is close by, then the problem is only half resolved. And what if the old man or old woman refuses to go?
Here we have an extreme example of a common family problem. Lear not only wants to come and stay with his daughters—who have cut their own throats, so to speak, by publicly declaring their overwhelming, undying love for him—but he wants to bring a hundred drinking and hunting buddies, plus a Fool who is "all licensed" to insult everybody. It doesn't occur to Lear that he might be making a bit of a nuisance of himself. Older people are stereotyped as stubborn, impatient, inflexible, and demanding. Lear is all these things to the ultimate extreme.
In present day, the problems of grown children with aging parents are often much greater than they were in Shakespeare's day, simply because people live longer. In fact, they might come to seem immortal to their grown children. If a couple takes an aging parent into their home, they might be stuck with an increasingly difficult house guest for decades.

In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell recounts his days serving as a police officer in colonial Burma. Which statement would accurately describe his feelings at the time?

There are several statements you might choose from to demonstrate how Orwell felt about his time as a police officer in colonial Burma. For example,

In the end the sneering yellow faces of young men that met me everywhere, the insults hooted after me when I was at a safe distance, got badly on my nerves.

This first quotation is an example of the anti-European hostility which the Burmese felt for men like Orwell, who they saw as symbols and enforcers of an unwanted colonial regime. The implication of this quotation is that the "sneering" and "hoot(ing)" was ubiquitous and unavoidable. Orwell acknowledges that it "got badly on (his) nerves," and as one reads on, this comes to seem like something of an understatement.
A little later in the text Orwell says that he found the hostility "perplexing and unsettling," all the more so because he "secretly of course . . . was all for the Burmese and against their oppressors." In other words, the open hostility of the Burmese was made worse by the fact that it echoed and exacerbated his own self-loathing. He understood and empathized with the anti-European feeling and "hated" the "dirty work of Empire" that he was a symbol of. He says that this "dirty work" oppressed him with "an intolerable sense of guilt." He perhaps found the hostility "perplexing" because it was directed against something, namely his police officer's uniform and the colonial regime, which he himself had no pride in and was also hostile to.
Although Orwell loathed the job he was there to do, he also admits to sometimes having felt ambivalent about his situation. He says that he felt as if he were

stuck between [his] hatred of the empire [he] served and [his] rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make [his] job impossible.

Orwell also says that he "thought of the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny, as something clamped down . . . upon the will of prostrate peoples," but at the same time he felt it would be "the greatest joy to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts."
Orwell felt, somewhat paradoxically, as if he were trapped. On the one hand, he understood and strongly empathized with the anti-European feelings of the Burmese, directed as they were against a regime which he knew was tyrannical. But on the other hand, he still despised the way many of the people in Burma treated him, even though he understood that he wore the uniform of the regime. This implicitly led to a contradiction which Orwell found difficult to reconcile. He couldn't quite accept that he was representative of the regime he and the Burmese despised so much, and, therefore, could never understand the hostility enough not to be angered by it.

Who is the Sleer?

In the story, the Sleer is a malevolent, serpent-like creature. It is also the oldest supernatural being in the graveyard. According to the text, the Sleer is a guardian. It watches over the treasures of its previous master while awaiting that master's return. This serpent-like creature also has three heads and three necks.
Its faces comprise an amalgamation of human and animal parts. Most disturbingly, the faces are covered in purple patterns, with swirling indigo tattoos.
Bod, of course, is wary of the Sleer. In the story, the Sleer asks Bod to be its master. The creature promises Bod everlasting protection from the dangers of the world if he acquiesces. However, Bod isn't interested in taking the place of the Sleer's previous master. He is more interested in finding out who killed his family.
Later in the story, Bod capitalizes on the Sleer's obsessive need for a master to dispatch Jack Frost, the evil man who killed Bod's family.

The Sleer is a creepy looking character, to say the least. A triple-headed snake-like creature, he's the oldest inhabit of the graveyard, where he's lived since before the ancient Romans arrived in Britain. Thousands of years ago, the Sleer used to be the servant of an old druid, or pagan priest, and his job was to guard the treasure—a brooch called the Snakestone, a knife, and a cup. But since his master left him, the Sleer has had no one to serve. That's what makes him especially vulnerable, despite his fearsome appearance, to being enslaved by the evil Jack Frost, who wishes to uses the Sleer for his own wicked ends. The Sleer was specifically created to protect his master's wealth from the grasping hands of the greedy and ruthless. Yet Jack Frost wants to use the Sleer to protect himself against those such as Bod who wish to rid the world of this malevolent creature. But the Sleer will never recognize Jack Frost as his master, as Jack discovers to his cost.

Write a short account to explain the role of enzymes and their importance in living organisms.

Enzymes are catalysts that increase the rate of chemical reactions in cells. Proteins are the most common enzymes in biological reactions. Without enzymatic catalysis, many biochemical reactions would be much slower or would not occur under normal conditions. Enzymes can reduce reaction time to a fraction of a second. Within the thousands of enzymes in a cell, different ones determine particular reactions. Enzymes have two fundamental properties: they increase the rate of chemical reactions (but they are not consumed or permanently altered in doing so), and they do not alter the reactant-to-product chemical equilibrium.
Enzymes function by binding substrates, forming an enzyme-substrate complex. The active site is the specific region of the enzyme to which the substrate binds. While it is so bound, the substrate is converted into the reaction’s product, which is then released from the enzyme. Active sites often bind other small molecules involved in catalysis. Some small molecules are bound to specific proteins; these are called prosthetic groups. In blood, heme is a prosthetic group that carries oxygen. Metal ions bound to enzymes and organic molecules, called co-enzymes, also play specific, significant roles in catalysis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9921/

What has been the relationship between public spending and taxes? How does Reagan propose to change this relationship?

Before Ronald Reagan came into office, the general consensus was that relatively high levels of taxation were needed to maintain generous levels of public spending. However, Reagan set out to challenge that consensus, arguing that high levels of taxation and public spending were bad for the economy and that far from being the answer to all our problems, government was the problem.
What was needed instead was a substantial cut in both personal and business taxes, especially at the higher rates. It was argued that this would stimulate the economy, as consumers and businesses would have more money in their pockets to spend and invest. At the same time, the Reagan Administration drastically cut back on government spending, especially in areas such as welfare, which had become increasingly unpopular with the voters.
But not all areas of public spending were to be cut. Under Reagan, the defense budget increased substantially, which was in line with the Administration's commitment to a more aggressive stance towards the Soviet threat.
In combination, Reagan's fiscal measures had the effect of generating an enormous budget deficit. Not only that, but the Federal government's share of GDP actually increased despite Reagan's stated aim to reduce the size of government.

Paul's dad admits that he knows all about Erik's football season but can't say what position Paul plays in soccer. What reason does he give Paul for being so wrapped up in Erik's football and forgetting about Paul's soccer?

Paul's pretty upset that his dad is familiar with every last detail of all the football games that Erik's played but doesn't know the first thing about his soccer activities. Paul calls him out on this, and in his defense, Mr. Fisher says that this is a big season for Erik as it could give him his big break in pro football. That's why he needs to concern himself so much with Erik to the detriment of Paul and his own sporting activities. It also explains why he was blissfully unaware of the recent championship soccer game in which Paul played such an important part.
Mr. Fisher's excuse is pretty unconvincing, to say the least, because it's not just this season that he's focused so intently on Erik's potential football career, but every season. Mr. Fisher had plenty of time to watch Paul's soccer games but chose not to. This is a symptom of a wider problem, for Mr. Fisher always chooses to spend more time with Erik than with Paul, and for as long as Paul can remember, has always shown quite blatant favoritism towards his eldest son.

Think about the early parts of the story and Mrs. Granger's war against Nick and his new word. Now that you know what her real intentions were—to intentionally make herself the bad guy—try to imagine what she was thinking when she posted her angry notice or when she kept all those students after school.

Mrs. Granger is a very strict fifth-grade language arts teacher who does not want any student to question her rules or cause trouble in the classroom. However, she figures that the other students will follow Nick’s rebellious nature, as it appears to give him the attention that he seeks. Mrs. Granger wants to keep order and control and be the authority figure for the students. But Nick wants to keep pursuing his goal of popularizing the word "frindle," and he repeatedly disrupts her classroom to do so.
Mrs. Granger insists that if the students want to use the word "frindle," they need to suffer the consequences and must stay after school. The students are choosing to follow Nick’s lead and do exactly that, and the kids stay after school. In addition, Mrs. Granger’s angry posting seems to have the opposite effect upon the students. Instead of getting her students to stop their behavior, it unites them in rebellion against Mrs. Granger’s request.
Mrs. Granger tells Nick later that, at first, she was upset with his behavior. Later, Mrs. Granger reveals in a letter to him that his quest to change the word "frindle" is rather interesting and that she wants to see that "frindle" becomes a commonly accepted word. She knows how words are created in the English language, and she sees that Nick’s word is taking shape, not unlike other words in history. In the end, you see that Mrs. Granger plays the villain to help the story of "frindle" become more popular than ever. Nick’s endeavors are successful, and he becomes rich and famous for inventing the word "frindle."
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/frindle-discussion-guide/