To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckon'd highly indecent. how different this is, from the conduct of a polite british house of commons where scarce every person without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of europe, where if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer'd to finish it—

why does franklin use satire and sarcasm in this excerpt?

How are key ideas refined with clear and concise language in the selection “what are our demands? ” what purpose does this selection serve?

Place the steps of the strategy for reading technical information in the correct order.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)