Read this excerpt from “The Myth of Hercules.” Hercules was the son of the great god Zeus and a human woman named Alcmene. The goddess Hera did not like Alcmene and vowed to destroy Hercules when he was born. Hera sent two snakes to kill the baby as he lay in his crib, but Hercules was strong and strangled the snakes with his tiny hands before they could bite him with their sharp fangs. How does Hercules’s backstory in the excerpt help the reader understand a theme? Knowing that Hercules was born with superior strength explains why he is able to overcome great obstacles. Knowing that Hercules strangled two snakes shows the reader that Hercules has a cruel nature. Knowing that Hercules was born with superior strength explains why Hera wants to kill him as a baby. Knowing that a goddess wants to destroy Hercules shows the reader that Hercules will fail to accomplish his goals.

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b) to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry.

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the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "