Life is easier today than it was for kids hundreds of years ago. Imagine being a settler in America in the 1700s. Children often had to walk miles to school. Meals were
usually the same food over and over. People mainly ate what they grew in their gardens.
Many people had no indoor bathrooms, and at night people used candles to see.
What is the purpose of this passage?
to explain what school was like hundreds of years ago
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to show examples of how life used to be harder
to make readers want to read more about life long ago

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses

Why was kennedy concerned about the use of nuclear weapons

According to the police officer, the car accident could not have been avoided.