Which sentence best expresses the passage’s main idea? The cattle-herding cowboy is one of the most important icons of American culture. The earliest American cowboys were Mexican cowboys called vaqueros. The Mexican vaqueros were from a part of Mexico ruled by Spain. They developed their riding style from the Spanish tradition of horse riding known as doma vaquera. A. American cowboys have their roots in Spanish riding styles.
B. Cowboys are known as American cultural icons around the world.
C. Doma vaquera is a Spanish riding method used for cattle herding.
D. Mexican vaqueros followed the Spanish riding method.

What is one way that the author makes a distinction between the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental passenger flights in 1936

What role does the element of motivation play in performances? a. it makes characters more relatable. b. it uses characters to enhance setting. c. it reveals characters’ weaknesses. d. it guides characters’ actions.

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet