In herman melville’s mobydick, what causes the pequod to sink?

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.

Read the excerpt from notes of a native son. it had something to do with his blackness, i think—he was very black—with his blackness and his beauty, and with the fact that he knew that he was black but did not know that he was beautiful. he claimed to be proud of his blackness but it had also been the cause of much humiliation and it had fixed bleak boundaries to his life. what does the excerpt tell readers about racial prejudice in early 20th-century america? racial prejudice had negative psychological effects on those who discriminated against others. racial prejudice had negative psychological effects on those who suffered its injustices. people who experienced racial prejudice did not show evidence of any psychological effects. people who experienced racial prejudice were fully aware of how they were affected psychologically.

Read the following passage: the year is 2186. humankind has taken to living underground during a decades-long nuclear winter. there is no government and no form of widespread communication. isolated pockets of individuals live in self- sustaining shelters or caves, each group barely managing to subsist. which statement best describes the main idea of this passage? o a. government regulation of communication will lead to a fractured society. o b. in any widespread nuclear conflict, no side can truly win. o c. even if all other resources are eliminated, humans can survive underground o d. no matter what disasters might occur, society will flourish.