Reread lines 173-174. With a small group, discuss your interpretation of the story's ending. What is the Emperor thinking about? Support your ideas with explicit textual evidence.

Which three sentences in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that the author's tone is mocking?

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

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