[Helmer:] Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Nora: Why do you only say—mother?

Helmer: It seems most commonly to be the mother's influence, though naturally a bad father's would have the same result. Every lawyer is familiar with the fact. This Krogstad, now, has been persistently poisoning his own children with lies and dissimulation; that is why I say he has lost all moral character. [Holds out his hands to her.] That is why my sweet little Nora must promise me not to plead his cause. . . . I assure you it would be quite impossible for me to work with him; I literally feel physically ill when I am in the company of such people.

–A Doll’s House,
Henrik Ibsen

Which statement is the best inference about Torvald’s character, based on this passage?

THIS IS THE ANSWER!!!
Torvald believes that parents have a great impact on how successful their children’s lives will be.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

eager to consume a lot of food? insatiable appetite?

explanation:

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.

why were the wolves chased out of yellowstone nation park?