At six-thirty, he gave an order to move out, and the column of vehicles left fort detrick's main gate and headed south, toward the potomac river. it consisted of a line of ordinary automobiles—the officers' family cars, with the officers inside wearing civilian clothes, looking like commuters. the line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. one was a supply van and the other was a snow-white ambulance. it was an unmarked level 4 biocontainment ambulance. inside it there were an army medical-evacuation team and a biocontainment pod known as a bubble stretcher. this was a combat medical stretcher enclosed by a biocontainment bubble made of clear plastic. if someone was bitten by a monkey, he would go into the bubble, and from there he would be transferred to the slammer. the supply van was a white unmarked refrigerator truck. this was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood.
what is the author’s purpose for including this paragraph?
a. to the reader visualize the thorough precautions that were in place
b. to persuade the reader that safety precautions should always be followed
c. to inform the reader of what could happen if precautions were overlooked
d. to explain in great detail why such precautions were needed for the situation

a. to help the reader visualize the thorough precautions that were in place.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, the author describes with great detail all the precautions that were in place to deal with an emergency of this kind.The author describes the unmarked military vehicles, the biocontainment ambulance, the medical-evacuation team and the biocontainment pod. The author describes all of these details vividly in order to help the reader visualize the complexity of the enterprise.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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