Paraphrase the Central idea and Supporting Details Highlight the central idea in pink and supporting
details in yellow.
Their complexions too, differing so much
from ours, their long hair and the language
they spoke (which was very different from
any I had ever heard) united to confirm in me
this belief. Indeed such were the horrors of
my views and fears at the moment that, if ten
thousand worlds had been my own, I would
have freely parted with them all to have
exchanged my condition with that of the
meanest slave in my own country. When I
looked round the ship too and saw a large
furnace or copper boiling and a multitude of
black people of every description chained
together, every one of their countenances
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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.

Fill in the began as a rejection of classicism. (choose the best answer) a. realism b. confucianism c. romanticism d. the information age