During our passage, I first saw flying fishes, which surprised me very much; they used frequently to fly across the
ship, and many of them fell on the deck. I also now first saw the use of the quadrant: I had often with astonishment
seen the mariners make observations with it, and I could not think what it meant. They at last took notice of my
surprise, and one of them, willing to increase it, as well as to gratify my curiosity, made me one day look through it.
The clouds appeared to me to be land, which disappeared as they passed along. This heightened my wonder and
I was now more persuaded than ever, that I was in another world, and that every thing about me was magic.
In at least 100 words, discuss how Equiano's descriptions in this excerpt makes the other portions of the text that much
more affecting.

Why might the greeck city states have an advantage over the persians

Which of the following is an example of conflict between new england colonists and native americans? a.fundamental orders b.bacons rebellion c.english civil war d.king phillips war

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .