What does the author show in the story of thoreau going to jail?

a. how thoreau protested

b. how angry thoreau was

c. that few people protested

d. he was influential

{most people remember gandhi and dr. martin luther king, jr. as reformers who practiced non-violent forms of protest and advocacy. both effectively changed the popular opinion about emotional issues for their countries and brought in a wave of change that was long overdue. but the practice of non-violent protest, or civil disobedience, started long before either gandhi or king. it began with a quiet, shy poet who is best known for writing a lot about a pond.

henry david thoreau lived from 1817 until 1862, mainly in the area of concord, massachusetts. the issue that would tear the country apart in the 1860s had already begun dividing the nation. thoreau was only 14 when nat turner led the slave rebellion in virginia and was later hanged. in his late 20s, thoreau began speaking against slavery in public, echoing the voices of freedmen like frederick douglass and lewis hayden.

thoreau believed that a government that supported slavery was corrupt and immoral. he was also deeply suspicious of government. for these and other reasons, thoreau refused to pay his poll tax for a number of years. the poll tax was a legal tax owed by every person. it was basically a tax on one's body. after not paying for years, he was at last arrested. he spent only one night in jail, however, as a relative paid the tax for him. he was reportedly furious that any tax was paid on his behalf.

it was this experience that thoreau wrote about in an essay called "civil disobedience." in this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to government. he wrote "if the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, i say, break the law." he also felt that voting was not enough to ensure that the right thing be done. he wrote that "even voting for the right is doing nothing for it… a wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance…" he felt that one had a moral responsibility to resist unjust laws.}

Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."

Explain the effect of the juxtaposition of the following lines that serve as a beginniing to the new section that begins on page nine: anguish. german soldiers-with their steel helmets and their deaths-head emblem. still, our first impressions of the germans were rather reassuring.

Read the lines from "when i have fears" and answer the question. when i have fears that i may cease to be before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, before high piled books, in charact'ry, hold like richgarners the full-ripen'd grain . . to fully understand the metaphor keats uses in these lines, readers must know that "garners" means the things that are harvested the places where harvests are stored the praises one receives for abundant harvests the people who own the harvests