Both texts feature not only the natural unfairness of using laws or scale for the advantage of the strong but the truism of "Matthews Law" which effectively dictates that for those people who have a lot, more will come and for those who have little – they are the most likely to lose more. In both cases, the powerful people are becoming more powerful, and the systems being developed by them will structurally disenfranchise the people they are displacing. In "To Roosevelt", the poet starts to explore the theme using the words "you are the future invader" to identify America as the inevitable single power in the America’s. When he goes on to say "You think life is fire, that progress is eruption; where you put your bullet you put the future", Dario is building on the theme of the aggression that America is going to use to dominate. Dario is saying the values that Roosevelt represents is traditionalism and unchanging, rather than progressive and open-minded development. He is proposing that Roosevelt and therefore America sees violence as a tool of expansion. In "The Squatter and the Don" the theme emerges when it is clear that there is a supposed moral justification for displacing people with the words "all inside the law". This is making it clear that creating a legal structure that serves the powerful provides them with security from guilt for their actions. The further statement "in this easy way more land was taken from its legitimate owner". In this sentence it is clear that the author is maintaining that the legitimacy of residence is being successfully overtaken by legal action. This is further developed in the reference to this legal activity creating only tears, not blood as it would in the past through only violent action.

Question 4 of 10 2 points in the war of the worlds, martian attack represents the fear that invaders will: o a. destroy people's ability to think for themselves. b. pretend to be friendly. o c. live like parasites off humans. o d. use unknown weapons and technology. submit

According to stephen hawking in the "origin of the universe" lecture, "why are we here" and "where did we come from" are questions that

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next