24. For many years grizzly bears were killed for their fur, their skulls. and often just because they looked so fierce.
• Over the past 100 years or so, humans have reduced the grizzly
population in the lower 48 states of the U. S. from 50,000 to 1,000.
What does the second sentence do?
A. It gives unexpected information.
B. It provides an example of what is stated in the first sentence.
C. It analyzes the claim made in the first sentence.
D. It states a result.

How dose religion today compared to the puritans idea of religion

Simple movements prove to be very significant and saves the rest of the day of the poet from being wasted. explain on the basis of the poem dust of snow class 10 dust of snow english

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant