Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Which TWO of the following statements best identify themes of the text?
A. Peace cannot be achieved without violence.
B. The fear of death can affect how we perceive and experience time.
C. The desire for revenge can cause people to forget about what is most important
in life.
D. People often wish for the opportunity to return to the past.
E. Soldiers have difficulty adjusting to their lives as civilians.
F. War causes people to act in sinister and desperate ways.

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.

which words are in bold?

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.