Samuel langhorn clemens, mark twain, was born in florida, missouri on november 30,1835. the experience of his life prepared him as a writer, an american writer. he worked as a printer, then apprenticed himself as a river pilot on the mississippi, and eventually became one of the best. he worked at mining activities in nevada. in 1862, he took a position on the virginia city enterprise where he first used the name mark twain, which was a riverboat pilot expression. he went to the west coast and worked for a while on the san francisco newspaper, morning call. after leaving there, he went to calaveras county to try his hand at mining. in 1865, he was asked by artemus ward to write a humorous sketch. he signed it "mark twain," and his reputation began on the eastern seaboard. in 1866, he was sent by the sacramento union to hawaii. unexpectedly, in 1867, he sailed abroad and wrote letters that were to become the book, the innocents abroad. with that book he became the most famous humorist of his time. in july, 1869, the innocents abroad was published. on february 2,1870, he married olivia langdon. what is the tone of the excerpt? factual humorous kindly tiresome

Read these lines from "an open boat" and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses,
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat,
 which of the end rhymes below matches the one in the last line of the excerpt? “he’s living, i know. but he’s numbed with the cold.” “and there are no voices or ghosts in that darkness.” “and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.” “come. loosen your fingers. – o god, let me keep him! ”

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

What is the speaker telling the grecian urn in these lines from “ode on a grecian urn”? he wishes the urn could talk so he could hear its stories. he knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead. he fears that when he gets old, the urn will suffer because nobody else will take care of it. he wishes the people frozen on the urn could warm up and come to life.