2. The following question asks about one or more selections from your textbook Literature. You
may use your textbook to answer this question. Select one question to respond to.
Option 1:
In an essay, discuss the way in which Naomi Shihab Nye treats loneliness in "The Rider."
What does loneliness mean to the speaker in the poem? How does bicycling help her leave her
loneliness behind? Cite passages from the poem to support you points. Use the reading
selection to help you answer the question.

i am pretty sure the awsers is d.

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.