PLEASE HELP ASAP!! 35 POINTS & BRAINLIEST

Choose one of the following topics and write at least 200 words.

1. Trace Shan's development from immaturity to maturity.

2. Show how Jesse Stuart uses the setting of the story to mirror Shan's feelings.

3. Compare and contrast Grace and Jo-Anne.

4. Discuss how the mountain setting contributes to the outcome of the story.

Write one paragraph for each of your main points.

Try to use connecting words at the end or beginning of each paragraph.

Summarize and conclude in a conclusion paragraph.

Use evidence from the story to support your analysis.

Document your evidence properly, using MLA format (click here to review the MLA Style Guide).

The tone of this speech could best be described as expressing a feeling of read the excerpt from president ronald reagan's speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election, i believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will testore our private and independent social fear hope anger pride

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Realism was a fairly influential and widespread literary movement in the united states in the latter half of the nineteenth century. which american writer is among the pioneers of american realism? a. ernest hemingway b. f. scott fitzgerald c. j. d. salinger d. mark twain