The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case. i found no severe trial in my departure. my home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, i could not feel that i was leaving anything which i could have enjoyed by staying.
how does the objective style of this excerpt add power to the story?
a. it relies on understatement to show that douglass had strong feelings toward his childhood home.
b. it uses strong imagery to show that douglass is unsentimental about his childhood home.
c. it presents douglass's feelings about his childhood home in a detached and
factual way.
d. it uses irony to show that douglass disliked his childhood home when he should have loved it.

What do mcmahon’s references to thomas carlyle and john stuart mill do for his own image and credibility?

How would you write "the fourth of july? " the 4th of july or the fourth of july? are they both grammatically correct?

1) earth's crust is made up of relatively rigid plates that ride atop earth's hot, semiliquid mantle. (2) the plates are called tectonic because they're in constant motion. (3) they can move because earth's mantle is a very hot and semiliquid fluid called magma. (4) volcanoes are a result of magma rising up or erupting through a plate, particularly where plate boundaries are moving against each other. (5) also, when plates slide against each other, causing friction along adjacent plate boundaries, earthquakes frequently occur. (6) therefore, we often find volcanoes and earthquakes along plate boundaries. (7) plates may also collide. (8) when that happens, mountain ranges are formed. (9) for example, the collision of the plate carrying the indian subcontinent created the himalayan mountains when it collided with the asian plate. which statement about this paragraph is accurate?