Annie Dillard is equipped with "an ingenious device for cutting thin segments of fragile tissue." Would thick segments of tissue suffice for her needs? Why or why not?

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

The truck driver backed his vehicle between two buildings, he did not have an inch to spare on either side. fragment, run on, or complete sentence?

In the poem i felt a funeral, in my brain, what rhyme scheme does the poet use and how does it contribute to the poem?