Why does sotomayor draw a contrast between the encyclopedia salesman and the other men who had previously ring her doorbell

Iopened the door quietly, then stood in the doorway rewrite using ..ing participle

Hamlet act 1 what task does king claudius give to cornelius and voltemand?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?