Read the excerpt from "benin plaque: the oba with europeans.”
these were enormous and belief-shattering ideas for many people in the nineteenth century, but time was also changing in a much more day-to-day, or rather hour-to-hour, way. to clockmakers like earnshaw, precise and reliable clocks and watches became ever more affordable. before long the whole of britain was running by the clock, and the measurement of time had been severed from the natural cycle of days and seasons. the clock ruled every aspect of life – shops and schools, pleasure and work. as charles dickens wrote, ‘there was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself had given in.’
which central idea is best supported by the details in the excerpt?
the invention of affordable timepieces led many to become clockmakers.
people in britain began wearing watches as a fashion accessory.
as more people began to own clocks, society embraced standardized time.
many people in britain voiced a preference for the natural cycle of days.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

Which is the best paraphrase of the passage? a.)it’s always cloudy where the men of winter live. b.)it’s always misty where the men of winter live. c.)it’s always dark where the men of winter live. d.)it’s always sunny where the men of winter live. read the passage from the odyssey - elpenor. by night our ship ran onward toward the ocean's bourne, the realm and region of the men of winter, hidden in mist and cloud. never the flaming eye of helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven; ruinous night being rove over those wretches.

Whos a good poet to listen to? i got back into shane koyczan and i'm wondering if anything else is out there.