How does the following poem express the beliefs of the humanist movement? sonnet 4 from astrophil and stella by sir philip sidney virtue, alas, now let me take some rest. thou set’st a bate between my will and wit. if vain love have my simple soul oppress’d, leave what thou likest not, deal not thou with it. thy scepter use in some old cato’s breast; churches or schools are for thy seat more fit. i do confess, pardon a fault confess’d, my mouth too tender is for thy hard bit. but if that needs thou wilt usurping be, the little reason that is left in me, and still th’effect of thy persuasions prove: i swear, my heart such one shall show to thee that shrines in flesh so true a deity, that virtue, thou thyself shalt be in love.

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir