Which best describes how the author of "the glass of milk" created an original theme while drawing from classic tradition? a. rojas creates a theme of blind love by drawing on the theme in romeo and juliet. b. rojas's theme of friendship is drawn from the theme in the story of moses and his brother. c. the theme of the negative power of greed is drawn from the theme of hamlet. d. rojas creates a theme of having too much pride from the oedipus rex story.

Considering "civil disobedience," why did both thoreau and martin luther king, jr. engage in acts of civil disobedience? to take a stand against government taxation to protest government policies they believed were unjust to protest slavery and the mexican-american war to take a stand against unfair laws in the 1950s and ‘60s

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.