Read the excerpt from the ancient city. middle and upper class [athenian] girls learned to read, write and probably play the lyre from a female tutor at home. they only performed physical exercises at festivals, and probably never in public as spartan girls did. but the spartans regarded physical health in girls as an important factor in producing future generations of warriors. what is the main idea of the excerpt? wealthier girls received some education. spartan girls performed exercises in public. girls had a female tutor come to their home. physical health was taught to spartan girls.

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

Sense and sensibility - chapters 41-50 do eilinor and marianne each end up with the best husband possible? give reasons for your answer.

Explain the purpose of eliezer's father's allusion to mrs. schachter.