‘i could, if you’d let me, talk and talk. let’s talk about anything. i believe the influence of kierkegaard on camus is underestimated. i believe dennis gabor may very well have been the antichrist. i believe hobbes is just rousseau in a dark mirror. i believe, with hegel, that transcendence is absorption. i could interface you guys right under the table,’ i say. ‘i’m not just a creâtus, manufactured, conditioned, bred for a function.’
what assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?
a. that the people he is addressing enjoy long conversations
b. that the people he is addressing appreciate intellectualism
c. that the people he is addressing have researched philosophy
d. that the people he is addressing expect a confrontation

Review of module 5 history dba history

“[the city’s engineers excelled in areas] neglected by the greeks, such as the construction of roads and aqueducts, and of sewers that could wash the filth of the city into the tiber. they have built paved roads throughout the country, leveling ridges and filling up hollows, so as to make possible the movements of heavily loaded wagons. . and such is the quantity of water brought in by the aqueducts, that veritable rivers flow through the city and its sewers: almost every house has cisterns, waterpipes, and copious fountains.” —strabo, as quoted in empires ascendant: time frame 400 b.c.–a.d. 200 cisterns are tanks that hold water until it is needed; if a house has a cistern, it is likely to also have a. aqueducts. c. a swimming pool. b. a fish pond. d. sinks and faucets.

Word does jefferson use in opening of the second paragraph that means "obvious? "