Yara adjusted her mask and tightly gripped the snorkel, while her aunt attempted to reassure her. "The bay is really calm, and we'll stay in the shallow water." Yara
appreciated her aunt's soothing words, but this was Yara's first experience with the
ocean. The idea of trusting it in order to study the undersea creatures was daunting.
Finally, Yara plunged in and was surprised by the feeling of freedom as she floated
on the water peering at the fish.
How does Yara's experience advance the theme?

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

For which cause did swift not write? the tory government the devaluation of irish coins the whig wars under william iii the starvation in ireland

Lisa works 7 hours a day, 7 days a week. how many hours does lisa work in 6 weeks