What is the main purpose of this excerpt from a child’s history of england by charles dickens? the whole country [england] was covered with forests, and swamps. the greater part of it was very misty and cold. there were no roads, no bridges, no streets, no houses that you would think deserving of the name. a town was nothing but a collection of straw-covered huts, hidden in a thick wood, with a ditch all round, and a low wall, made of mud, or the trunks of trees placed one upon another. the people planted little or no corn, but lived upon the flesh of their flocks and cattle. they made no coins, but used metal rings for money. they were clever in basket-work, as savage people often are; and they could make a coarse kind of cloth, and some very bad earthenware. but in building fortresses they were much more clever. a. to inform b. to instruct c. to express d. to entertain e. to persuade

Read the statement below and decide whether you agree or disagree with it. be prepared to support opinion with details from the reading and video. here's your discussion prompt through wn terms ocumel also ec it's more difficult to keep bias out of video news than textual news,

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

Write a 250- word essay in which you explain the significance of the different narrative voices in “the way to wealth.” use evidence from both texts to support your response