Discuss how the worldview that Denby describes helps to account for, and make sense of, the violent and vengeful elements of Homer’s Iliad that may seem cruel and immoral to a contemporary reader. Real life connection: When we see that the Greek aristocracy uses gods and religion in stories about heroes to inspire and manipulate common men to die in war for the aristocracy, does it make us stop to consider that this could or does happen today in our military wars?

Which quotation correctly uses ellipsis to shorten twain’s words?

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Which statement describes the central idea of the text in the story learning about the holocaust