Read the passage from sugar changed the world. nina was always a mysterious figure in the family: beautiful as a movie star, cosmopolitan and elegant, with wide slavic cheeks. she spoke only russian, though she lived much of her adult life in tel aviv. there were rumors that she came from nobility and that she had once been very rich. she and avram were thought of as a glamorous couple—he the charming man with his head in the clouds (in yiddish the word for that kind of person is luftmensh, "air man''), she the mysterious beauty who had given up everything to be with him. which statements best describe the author’s purpose for writing this passage? select two options. to present background information about nina to create a sense of suspense about nina’s future to intrigue the reader with details about nina to show how nina was able to mislead people to persuade the reader that nina was rich

Which of the following is an acronym for north american free trade agreement

Need answer asap plz! the descriptions of the west wind in the first two sections of “ode to the west wind” are dominated by images of a. violence, death, decay, and burial. c. peace, birth, growth, and blossoming. b. sleep, dreams, fantasy, and reverie. d. translucence, light, color, and radiance.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man