Which sentence from the article has a flaw in its logic? a) is that where you want to live? b) i enjoy and benefit from technological advances just like everyone else. c) i profoundly do not hate music—but i do, ridiculous as it sounds, hate when cell phones are used to block out the real world. d) if we don’t curb our use of ear buds, all our musicians will languish and no new music will be developed.

Published in 1849, by was inspired by the writer's experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the mexican-american war.

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Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.