What is the topic of this sonnet? when i consider how my light is spent, e're half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present [ 5 ] my true account, least he returning chide, doth god exact day labour, light deny'd, i fondly ask; but patience to prevent that murmur, soon replies, god doth not need either man's work or his own gifts, who best [ 10 ] bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his state is kingly. thousands at his bidding speed and post o're land and ocean without rest: they also serve who only stand and waite. coping with blindness writer's block interpreting god's word

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

What causes cassius to delay killing caesar? a. the crowds around caesar b. a violent storm c. brutus’s reluctance d. the disorganization it the resistance