(1) television changed my family forever. (2) we stopped eating dinner at the dining-room table after my mother found out about tv trays. (3) we kept the tv trays behind the kitchen door and served ourselves from pots on the stove. (4) setting and clearing the dining-room table used to be my job; now, setting and clearing meant unfolding and wiping our tv trays, then, when we’d finished, wiping and folding our tv trays. (5) dinner was served in time for one program and finished in time for another. (6) during dinner we used to talk to one another. (7) now television talked to us. (8) if you had something you absolutely had to say, you waited until the commercial, which is, i suspect, where i learned to speak in thirty-second bursts. (9) as a future writer, it was good practice in editing my thoughts. (10) as a little girl, it was lonely as hell. (11) once in a while, i’d pass our dining-room table and stop, thinking i heard our ghosts sitting around talking to one another, saying stuff. source: move on,  an autobiographical book by linda ellerbee.. we can infer that when ellerbee imagined ghosts, she? a. was remembering better times with her family.  b. was scared of passing by the dining room.  c. realized her childhood home was haunted.

Which theme do all rivers run to the sea and maus share?

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .

What are two themes in ted chiang’s “exhalation”?