Select all the correct answers. (more than one! ) in philip k. d*ck’s story “the gun,” space explorers land on a planet that was once inhabited by humans. what does the following excerpt tell us about the people who lived on the planet? “only watch out. they fired on us once without even knowing who we were or what we came for. do you suppose that they fought with each other? perhaps they couldn't imagine anyone being friendly, under any circumstances. what a strange evolutionary trait, inter-species warfare. fighting within the race! ” a. the people valued history and preserved important relics for future generations to learn from. b. the people were unfriendly and suspected anything that entered their territory to be an enemy. c. the people valued friendship and exchanged their scientific know-how with other species. d. their entire population was wiped out by infighting and the inability to trust other people.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

How do you think the political and social strife of england influenced jonathan swift ? how were these problems connected to reason

2dogs and 2 humans how many people are there? animals are considered as people too?