Read the excerpt from “The Telephone: A Truer Tale.” The year was 1849, and Antonio Meucci, a man trained in engineering, was experimenting with electricity. He and a doctor were trying to determine if electric shock could be used to cure illnesses. One day, when he turned on the switches to treat a patient in another room, he heard the patient yelp. However, the voice had not come from the next room—it had come from the copper wire that ran between them!

Following that fateful day, Meucci left his medical experiments behind. Instead, he set a goal to develop that talking wire into a machine he called a “talking telegraph.” After six years of trials and tests, he was able to build a working model. Meucci found it to be a useful device almost immediately.

Based on the sequence of events in the excerpt, which sentence best states a cause-and-effect relationship?

Because Antonio Meucci was a trained engineer, he was able to invent a “talking telegraph.”
Because electricity was used to cure sickness, Antonio Meucci invented the “talking telegraph.”
Because the device was so useful, Antonio Meucci invented the “talking telegraph.”
Because he heard a patient’s yelp through a copper wire, Antonio Meucci invented the “talking telegraph.”

Because he heard a patient’s yelp through a copper wire, Antonio Meucci invented the “talking telegraph.”

Explanation:

A cause-and-effect relationship is a relationship where one event causes another to happen. The first event is referred to as the cause and its result is referred to as the effect.

Here, we have Antonio Meucci, a trained engineer who created the talking telegraph after hearing a patient's yelp through a copper wire. His engineering knowledge was necessary for this invention, but it isn't the cause. If he hadn't heard the patient's voice through the wire, he probably wouldn't have thought of the talking telegraph.

This is the fourth option is the correct one.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

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