This is a newspaper headline from 1957.
(what the newspaper says:)Soviet fires earth satellite into space; It is circling the globe at 18,000 M. P.H.; Sphere tracked in 4 crossings over U. S.
How did this event impact American history?
a. It inspired the international Space Race.
b. It inspired the development of the first atomic bomb.
c. It marked the decline of the United States’ global influence.
d. It marked the end of the Cold War.

Read these lines from "o captain! my captain! ". o the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. how does whitman use the extended metaphor to refer to lincoln’s death? a. whitman compares lincoln’s death to what the death for all the soldiers was like. b. whitman compares lincoln’s death to the loss of one of the army generals. c. whitman compares lincoln’s death to the loss of losing a family member in the war. d. whitman compares lincoln’s tragic death to a captain lying dead on the deck of his ship.