8. Which excerpt from Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I lived For" best illustrates how the Transcendentalists envisioned the pursuit of happiness?
A. "The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean
and airy look."
B. "We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an
infinite expectation of the dawn."
C. “By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish
and confirm their daily life of routine and habit everywhere."
D. "Time is but the stream I go-a-fishing in, I drink at it."

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers

elie wiesel is a holocaust survivor

explanation: