Select the correct answer. In this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone?
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. But I am
not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and
filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition.
They cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired
to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to
come
A.
Old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job.
B.
Old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens.
C.
The economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts.
The living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation.
D.
the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation

Me ! select the correct answer. which sentence is an oxymoron? a. to have peace, we must go to war. b. a glass can be viewed as either half full or half empty. c. the lawyer was deceptively honest with his clients. d. spies do not dress like spies. e. though the lab was messy, there was a method to his madness.

Ajourney with my father adapted from my reminiscences by sir rabindranath tagore probably in order to teach me to be careful, my father placed a little small change in my charge and required me to keep an account of it. he also entrusted me with the duty of winding his valuable gold watch for him. he overlooked the risk of damage in his desire to train me to a sense of responsibility. when we went out together for our morning walk, he would ask me to give alms to any beggars we came across. but i never could render him a proper account at the end of it. one day, my balance was larger than the account warranted. "i really must make you my cashier," observed my father. "money seems to have a way of growing in your hands! " that watch of his i wound up with such indefatigable1 zeal that it had very soon to be sent to the watchmaker's in calcutta. i am reminded of the time when, later in life, i was appointed to manage the estate and had to lay before my father, owing to his failing eyesight, a statement of accounts on the second or third of every month. i had first to read out the totals under each head, and if he had any doubts on any point, he would ask for the details. if i made any attempt to slur over or keep out of sight any item which i feared he would not like, it was sure to come out. so, these first few days of the month were very anxious ones for me. as i have said, my father had the habit of keeping everything clearly before his mind—whether figures of accounts, or ceremonial arrangements, or additions or alterations to property. he had never seen the new assembly hall built at bolpur, and yet, he was familiar with every detail of it from questioning those who came to see him after a visit to bolpur. he had an extraordinary memory, and when once he got hold of a fact, it never escaped him. my father asked me to copy the favourite verses, with their translation, from the book he liked reading every day. at home, i had been a boy of no account. here, when these important functions were entrusted to me, i felt the glory of the situation. 1. tireless 7 how does the narrator support the idea that his father keeps everything clearly before his mind? a. by giving the example of his father's response when his account did not tally with the money that he had in hand b. by mentioning that his father was interested in everything that happened around him c. by giving the example of his father knowing every detail of the new assembly hall at bolpur d. by mentioning that his father had marked his favorite verses from his favorite book

Mr. underwood's editorial defending tom robinson is surprising because he's described as not wanting to be near negroes it's a dangerous stance to take at that time he had been neutral during the trial he wasn't in the courtroom