The notion that someday nature could swallow whole
something so colossal and concrete as a modern city
doesn't slide easily into our imaginations. the sheer titanic
presence of a new york city resists efforts to picture it
wasting away. the events of september 2001 showed only
what human beings with explosive hardware can do, not
crude processes like erosion or nevertheless, the
time it would take nature to rid itself of what urbanity has
wrought may be less than we might suspect.
why does the author most likely emphasize the size of new york city?
o
a. to contrast the city with the much smaller ecosystems that
existed before it
o
b. to suggest that humanity's mark on the environment is
irreversible
o
c. to imply that new york city comprises its own self-contained
ecosystem

a. inform

explanation:

"how to" tells us that it will explain how to, which means to inform

the answer is b) ''i hereby express my profound remorse together with my sincere mourning ''.

the reason being that although all of the options provided are valid the main idea of the speech by prime minister junichiro koizumi is to express his and japan's current antiwar pledge.

he states that 59 years had passed since the war, he acknowledges the 3 million japanese that lost their lives during the war and those countries who were affected by their decisions, as well as the way japan intends to develop relationships across the globe however all of this can be summarize to how japan as a whole regrets the war and its consecuences.

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the opening scene of "sweat" exposes the great emotional charge of the story. it shows the violence and abuse that dyes the marriage between delia jones and skyes.

skyes decides to terrorize his wife by pulling a bull whip (which resembles a snake), knowing that she is terrified of those animals. skyes laughs cruelly at her and kicks the laundry with which delia has been working hard, telling her to get rid of it. skyes also comments on her religious manners, telling his wife how ridiculous they are. delia reacts by threatening skyes with her frying pan, generating even more conflict