The Scarlet Letter- Custom House, Please help m, thank you. 1. How does Hawthorne feel about the community of Salem? Give an example to support your claim.

2. Why does Hawthorne compare himself to his ancestors and take their shame on himself? What attitude does he have towards their religion?

3. Why does Hawthorne tel readers The Scarlet Letter is based on a real piece of cloth and a historical manyscript he found while working at Custom House? What does he do with the letter and what does this reveal about his character and the signigficance of the letter ifself?

4. How is the work of a “romance- writer” different from the work of other writers? Why did Hawthorne find it so difficult to write a romance?

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

Write an essay on your aim in life to become engineer

Which word best describes the meaning of the word putrescent? a. earthy b. floral c. rotten d. strong