How different do you think Columbus's journal would have been if he had written it only for personal use and not for an audience of royal patrons? In a brief response, consider the way in which the journal would have been different had it been strictly a private record. Discuss general differences as well as specific differences in the selection you just read, and explain the reasons for the differences.

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a. sailing b. suitors c. hunting d. dreams

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.

In the context of literature, what is the meaning of word choice