This passage is taken from a story set in the mid-1800s. from Home Scenes "REALLY, this is comfortable!" said I. glancing around the handsomely furnished parlour of my young friend Brainard, who had. weeks before, ventured upon matrimony, and was now making his first experiments in housekeeping. "Yes, it is comfortable," replied my friend. "The fact is, I go in for comforts." "I'm afraid George is a little extravagant," said the smiling bride, as she leaned towards her husband and looked tenderly into h face. "No, not extravagant, Anna," he returned; "all I want is to have things comfortable. Comfort I look upon as one of the necessarie life, to which all are entitled. Don't you?" I was looking at a handsome new rose-wood piano when this question was addressed to me, and thinking about its probable co "We should all make the best of what we have." I answered, a little evasively; "and seek to be as comfortable as possible under circumstances." "Exactly. That's my doctrine," said Brainard. "I'm not rich, and therefore don't expect to live in a palace, and have every thing ar What does the dialogue reveal about the relationship between the characters? 01. Brainard thinks that the narrator lives a very simple life. O 2. The narrator enjoys debating economic issues with Brainard. 3. Brainard realizes that the narrator is jealous of his new life. 4. The narrator believes that Brainard is living beyond his means.​

Describe a situation in which you experienced unfamiliar cultural patterns. what was going on? how did this experience make you feel? does learning more about culture make encountering cultural diversity easier? why or why not?

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Consider the speakers in "the raven" and the speaker in "the song of wandering aengus." write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the voice in these two poems. how does the poet give the speaker in each poem a distinctive voice? what effect does this voice have in each poem? use examples from each poem to as evidence for your answer "the raven"once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—while i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.“‘tis some visitor,” i muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—only this and nothing more.”ah, distinctly i remember it was in the bleak december, and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. eagerly i wished the morrow; —vainly i had sought to borrowfrom my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost lenore—for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name lenore—nameless here for evermore. and the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainthrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; so that now, to still the beating of my heart, i stood repeating“‘tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; this it is and nothing more.”"the song of wandering aengus." i went out to the hazel wood, because a fire was in my head, and cut and peeled a hazel wand, and hooked a berry to a thread; and when white moths were on the wing, and moth-like stars were flickering out, i dropped the berry in a streamand caught a little silver trout. when i had laid it on the floori went to blow the fire aflame, but something rustled on the floor, and some one called me by my name: it had become a glimmering girlwith apple blossom in her hairwho called me by my name and ranand faded through the brightening air. plz hurry