Which sentence best expresses the passage’s main idea? the cattle-herding cowboy is one of the most important icons of american culture. the earliest american cowboys were mexican cowboys called vaqueros. the mexican vaqueros were from a part of mexico ruled by spain. they developed their riding style from the spanish tradition of horse riding known as doma vaquera                                      need asap. a. american cowboys have their roots in spanish riding styles. b. cowboys are known as american cultural icons around the world. c. doma vaquera is a spanish riding method used for cattle herding. d. mexican vaqueros followed the spanish riding method. need ?

Since carmen was so hungry she stopped at the deli and brought a sandwich identify the dependent clause and circle the independent clause

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

How do sotomayor's descriptions of her family most likelyaffect readers?