Read the excerpt from “a journey west.” however, from the start of our journey, misfortune followed us everywhere. our first trouble happened in st. louis when our guide disappeared, taking all the money we paid him! “what are we going to do? ” i asked as i kicked the dirt at my feet. “i don’t want to go back to louisiana, but i guess we’ll have to. there’s no way for us to get to kansas now.” rosetta looked up, set her shoulders, and said, “hmmph. well, we’ve come this far. we’ll just have to go on without him.” what does the dialogue reveal about rosetta?
a. she believes that the family should return to louisiana.
b. she knows how to get to kansas without the guide.
c. she is angry at nate for taking them on the journey.
d. she feels confident about continuing on to kansas.

Why is emerson’s essay “self-reliance” a great example of transcendentalism?

Athesis statement is not a. a question; it is your answer to a research question that you will address in your essay b. your position on a topic you will address in your persuasive essay c. about the topic of your persuasive essay. it is about the opposite position

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to