Read the following excerpt from the way to rainy mountain by n. scott
momaday:
i do not speak kiowa, and i never understood her prayers,
but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some
merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow. she began
in a high and descending pitch, exhausting her breath to
silence; then again and again-and always the same
intensity of effort, of something that is, and is not like
urgency in the human voice. transported so in the dancing
light among the shadows of her room, she seemed beyond
the reach of time
which phrase in the passage most strongly contributes to its overall tone?
a. high and descending pitch

b. syllables of sorrow

c. transported in the dancing light

d. always the same intensity

Why are danforth, hathorne, and the other authorities so resistant to believing the claim that abigail and the other girls are lying?

According to warren in the brown opinion, how did conditions change between the time the fourteenth amendment was adopted and the time the supreme court considered brown v. board of education?

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was outlawed in 1919 by theeighteenth amendment. prohibition, as it was called, achieved a number of good results. it lowered the average consumption of alcohol. 4rrests for drunkenness fell sharply. the rate of alcoholism was reduced. if the prohibitionists had been willing to legalize beer and wine, the experiment might have worked. instead, by insisting on a totally “dry” society, they drove thousands of ordinary people to break the law. 1. during prohibition, alcohol was not available. 2. during prohibition, many usually law-abiding people drank illegally. 3. the prohibitionists opposed the use of any form of alcoholic beverage. 4. the prohibitionists were tolerant of moderate social drinking.