Read the excerpt from part 4 of the odyssey. there, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow tossed me, and i sprang for the great fig tree, catching on like a bat under a bough. nowhere had i to stand, no way of climbing, the root and bole being far below, and far above my head the branches and their leaves, massed, overshadowing charybdis pool. in this excerpt, odysseus is compared to a whirlpool. bat. root. pool.

In a 10-12 sentence response-style paragraph, explore the degree to which you agree or disagree with faulkner’s message. “i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. he is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. the poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. it is his privilege to man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. the poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to him endure and prevail” (faulkner 773-775).

“to build a fire” what does the man realize as he’s trying to light the matches? what difficulty occurs when the man finally lights all of his matches at once?

Me! 50 points! what claim from the nixon speech is not clearly supported? a: that he owns 3 homes b: that he earned money as a lawyer c: that he earned $800,000 as president d: that he never profited from public life