Answer this riddle: You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.

A candle.

Explanation:

A candle can be defined as a cylindrical block of wax (tallow) with an embedded wick that burns when lit by fire.

The duration of time in seconds, minutes or hours a candle takes to burn depicts the life of the candle. Since candles are made up of wax, as they are being burned there is a gradual reduction in its length (to every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction) i.e it serves you by expiring.

The rate at which a candle burn is directly proportional to its width i.e it burns quickly if it is thin and slowly if it is fat. Like every source of fire, it can be extinguished by a wind. Thus, the wind is an enemy to a candle.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

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