Then i sent out two picked men and a runnerto learn what race of men that land sustained.  they fell in, soon enough, with lotus-eaters, who showed no will to do us harm, onlyoffering the sweet lotus to our friends—but those who ate this honeyed plant, the lotus, never cared to report, nor to return: they longed to stay forever, browsing on  that native bloom, forgetful of their homeland. which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? the men sent by odysseus to investigate the land they had landed upon became forgetful after eating lotus plants. the lotus-eaters meant no harm and simply offered the lotus plant to odysseus’s men as a gesture of kindness. the lotus was a sweet plant that made men forget everything except the idea of obtaining and eating more lotus plants. the men sent ashore by odysseus were swayed by the hospitality of the lotus-eaters and abandoned the idea of returning home

Ihave to write a narrative poem for an english assignment, but i can't come up with any topics/ideas for the poem. any topics ideas?

Based on thoreau's transcendental beliefs, why might he have written an essay opposing the war? to explain the individual's responsibilities within a corrupt society to begin his own political career to call attention to the ways in which the government was essentially good to express his lack of interest in societal issues

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt