The first time mark twain encounters brown, he gets off to a bad start because— brown wants ritchie, rather than twain, to be his cub brown believes that twain nearly ran the boat into a small island twain thinks he should wait for orders before doing anything twain shows up to work late

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.

On a scale 1 to 10 how responsible are you? explain your answer