At the end of Invasion from Mars, Professor Pierson writes that seeing sightseers enter the museum to view the Martian machine is strange when he remembers the first time he "saw it, bright and clean-cut, hard and silent, under the dawn of that last great day." Why was the day the Martians landed the "last great day"?

What type of external conflict occurs in the excerpt from “stephen crane’s own story”? it was now that the first mate showed a sign of losing his grip. to us who were trying in all stages of competence and experience to launch the lifeboat he raged in all terms of fiery satire and hammerlike abuse. but the boat moved at last and swung down toward the water. a. person versus person b. person versus nature c. person versus society d. person versus self i think its either b or d.