The putting together of the open steel framework of the empire state building revealed one distinct difference from the framework of the skyscrapers being put up today. it was full of rivets. and its construction was audibly different from today's methods of building. riveting made such an infernal racket that new yorkers wrote angry letters to the newspapers about the noise. —the building of manhattan, donald a. mackay if you were paraphrasing this passage, what words would you have to use? check all that apply. empire state building distinct rivets audibly letters

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance