When Captain Beatty pays Montag a house visit, he tells Montag that the book-burning firemen are "custodians of our peace of mind," protecting people from the pain and suffering that books can unleash. What is it about literature that can lead to conflict and strife? Analyze the excerpts from Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart, both of which offer different perspectives of the African continent from colonial and pre-colonial perspectives, then use your reflections as a case study for Beatty's argument. How can reading two unique perspectives yield conflicting feelings about history and its opposing groups? What is the value in reading multiple perspectives on a subject or experience? Explain.​

Read the passage from a vindication of the rights of woman. that the society is formed in the wisest manner, whose constitution is founded on the nature of man, strikes, in the abstract, every thinking being so forcibly, that it looks like presumption to endeavour to bring forward proofs; though proof must be brought, or the strong hold of prescription will never be forced by reason; yet to urge prescription as an argument to justify the depriving men (or women) of their natural rights, is one of the absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense. does wollstonecraft maintain an objective tone in the passage? yes, because she uses objective language such as “society is formed in the wisest manner.” yes, because she uses objective language such as “it looks like presumption to endeavor.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “though proof must be brought, or the strong hold.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense.”

Which words best describes the speakers?

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?