Read the excerpt from gentleman of río en medio.

i sent a messenger up to the mountains for don anselmo. it took a week to arrange another meeting. when he arrived, he repeated his previous preliminary performance. he wore the same faded cutaway, carried the same stick and was accompanied by the boy again. he shook hands all around, sat down with the boy behind his chair, and talked about the weather.

don anselmo continues to wear the same clothes after the sale of his land which shows that

a. he does not see any value in money.
b. the appearance of wealth is not important to him.
c. he does not believe he will get the money he is owed.
d. the meeting with the narrator is not important to him.

Which information would the reader know if the mother were the narrator? select each correct answer. what the father thought about his wife's involvement in politics

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings. read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today. these excerpts are similar because both texts