Which revision effectively incorporates transitions to improve the flow of ideas?   technology and support were important, changing his perspective. he uses a simile “like a bird soaring through the sky” despite how he feels today.  technology and support were important in changing his perspective. to show the contrast of how the speaker feels, he uses a simile “like a bird soaring through the sky” to show how he feels today.  technology and support were very important. however, they changed his perspective. he uses a simile “like a bird soaring through the sky” because of how he feels today.  technology and support were important because they changed his perspective and because he uses a simile “like a bird soaring through the sky” to show how he feels today.

Discuss how social status may align with historical criticism.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Review the detail. beethoven chooses to stay when the children beg him to play more. which is the best inference that can be drawn about beethoven?