Read the following excerpt from "The Four Hundred Year Old Woman" by Bharati Mukherjee and answer the following question.
I was born into a religion that placed me, a Brahmin, at the top of its hierarchy while
condemning me, as a woman, to a role of subservience. The larger political entity to which I
first gave my allegiance-India-was not even a sovereign nation when I was born.
Which best describes the author's overall perspective in the above paragraph?

Why did phillips il of spain want to invade

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. what type of creature is bottom turned into? a. a goat. c. a mouse. b. an elf. d. a donkey.

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?  a.under a microscope; the organisms look a bit like ruffled tennis balls they have armored plates that fit together to make a round shape. b.when the water is disturbed; the organisms respond by glowing this makes swimmers look like floating beams of blue light. c.there is a bay in puerto rico that seems to light up at night; the light comes from tiny organisms in the water. d.the luminescence attracts visitors from around the world people are curious to see; this beautiful otherworldly sight.