. Read the sentence from the article: "As communities and railways across the nation switched to standard time, most of them had two noons that day-the noon of local time and another noon as each location switched their clocks back to what would be its new standard time." How does this sentence contribute to the theme of "The Day of Two Noons"? *

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia