Read the passage.
when in the chronicle of wasted time
i see descriptions of the fairest wights,
and beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
in praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
then in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best
of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
i see their antique pen would have express’d
even such a beauty as you master now.
which of the following best describes the syntax of these lines from sonnet 106 by william shakespeare?
(a) it is made up of a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd
(b) it is made up of two quatrains.
(c) it is made up of pairs of rhyming couplets.

the answer is: the sesquicentennial of the american civil war is an occasion to consider the legacy of that great conflict. this legacy is our inheritance, and despite many indelible features, we continue to negotiate the resolution of that conflict. the civil war was fought over slavery, but not always on behalf of slaves

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.

most people now work in jobs where they do one  kind  of work; they are carpenters, bankers, cooks, mechanics, and so forth. likewise, most  businesses produce  only certainkinds  of  goods  or  services, such as cars, tacos, or gardening  services. this feature of  production  is known as specialization.