Asharp wind gusts up from the deep glacier-cut valley, and it claws its way under my rain jacket. the cold fingers slither up my spine and send shivers down to my toes. i am resting on the landform that was the curse of thousands of people more than a century ago, during the alaska gold rush in 1898. the chilkoot trail is 33 miles long; the pass, which is more than a mile in elevation, is near the halfway point. i glance up at the summit and think to myself, this is going to take a while, isn’t it? what is the writer about to do?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. “this fair country alone is settled by freeholders, the possessors of the soil they cultivate . .” in about 100 words, discuss the influence that being a “freeholder” has on a settler and, according to crevecoeur, the admirable qualities it engenders.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

The adventures of tom sawyer, chapter 1 (excert)what does tom do to prevent aunt polly from finding out that he ate her jam? a) tom hides under the bed and then in the closet b) tom hide under the bed and tries to blame the cat c) tom hides in the closet so that aunt polly would not see him d) tom tried to wash the jam off and lied to aunt polly about the cat