I do wish our great men would quit saying these flat things just at the moment they die. Let us have their next-to-the-
last words for a while, and see if we cannot patch up from
them something that will be more satisfactory.
For which of the following reasons does Mark Twain make the statements
above in his essay "Last Words of Great Men"?
O A. To state clearly his main point
O B. To provide a contrasting perspective
O C. To indicate his humorous intent
O D. To describe his subject

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

How does the author view the idea that you have to be perfect in order to get into college

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?