For what purpose did Mukherjee most likely write her essay “A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman”? Click here to read an excerpt. Click here to read the excerpt.

A) to show how difficult it is to reach her audience with her writing

B) to explain how her new culture inspires her writing

C) to denounce writers who do not feel some kind of duty to their traditions

D) to encourage other writers to write about the present not the past

Electricity powered home and factories. how did electricity change americans' lives

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up