1722
In the service of the Dutch West India
Company. I set out to sea on an expedition to
seek a new continent, Terra Australis. We
have yet found no such place. What we have
found instead is an island which we have
called Easter, for the day upon which we
discovered it, and on this island live a people
who, by some wondrous effort, have
surrounded their villages with stone statues
30-feet high before which they light sacred
fires nightly. How such enormous monuments
were moved across the land is a mystery, and
when asked to reveal the secret the chief will
say only, with a wry smile. "They walk. Under
the astonished, wide-eyed moon, with the
Reread the 1722 entry, on pages 4 and 5.
Click the sentence in this section that BEST uses
personification to emphasize the narrator's sense
of wonder.
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Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

This passage from chapter 4 of story of my life is an example of which story of plot

Read this expert from herman melville’s the lightning rod man which contains a mythological allusion mr. jupiter tonans i am not accustom to be commanded in my own house call me now by the paga name you are profane in this time of terror which of these statements best conveys the meaning of the illusion