Which excerpt from walden best shows thoreau living "deliberately"?
a. "i got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise…"

b. "…for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night."

c. "there was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement…"

d. "to affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

no, i never do because that’s not the reason for what i speak to or of.

c, have a good day ~matya

she needs to add a conclusion summing up the entire essay along with an ending sentence to complete it all nicely.

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1) if the central idea of "nameless, tn" is "even the tiniest of towns, and the people living there, have value and meaning in this world," which of the following pieces of evidence from the story does not support this central idea?  

a. miss ginny keeps a deathbook of all those in nameless who have passed.

b. there was a doctor who cared about the people and the old way of doing things.

c. miss ginny doesn't like the look of the narrator's van.

d. the general store provided a variety of goods for all the people in nameless.

2)authors rarely state the central idea in narrative nonfiction. how can a reader find the central idea when the author doesn’t state it explicitly?

a. to find the central idea, you look for outside resources about the text and try to determine it through their analysis.

b. to find the central idea, you look at the details in the text: what characters say and do, the events that occur, important challenges or conflicts represented, and the setting. then you think about how these details work together to build and convey a big idea or message

c. to find the central idea, you look at the first paragraph of the story and make a guess.

d. none of these.