Which statement BEST summarizes the central idea of the text? A Workers' rights were terrible until they joined together and fought against their oppressive
bosses.
B
When she lost her husband and children, Mother Jones stopped working and decided to join
the movement for workers' rights.
Revolutionary for her time, Mother Jones became a powerful leader in the workers' rights
movement and kept fighting alongside workers almost to her death.
D
Mother Jones became a strong leader in the movement for workers' rights because she was
forced to work in harsh conditions and got fed up with the unfairness she faced in her job.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief