What connotation does the poet use for the word in bold?

Esther is a person and who makes friends easily. parallel structure how?

Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference.the author’s purpose in this excerpt is to

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.