Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the child is the dark shadow of the soldiers on guard with rifles saracens and batons the child is present at all assemblies and law-givings the child peers through the windows of houses and into the hearts of mothers this child who just wanted to play in the sun at nyanga is everywhere the child grown to a man treks through all africa in this excerpt from ingrid jonker’s poem, “the child is not dead,” the “child” most likely refers to the system of apartheid the struggle for freedom the racism in every country the corruption in government

I would think that it would be either "the struggle for freedom" or "the corruption in government" can't lie though I am leaning more towards the lst choice though "the corruption in government"

the flighty purpose never is o'ertook / unless the deed go with it"

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.