Read the following excerpt from "the four hundred year old woman" by bharati mukherjee and answer the following question.
i have found my way in the united states after many transit stops. the unglimpsed phantom faridpur, and the all too real manhattan have merged as "desh." i am an american. i am an american writer, in the american mainstream, trying to extend it.
what is the implied meaning the author is trying to convey in the allusion all too real manhattan?
a. the lively and bustling city
b. the good and bad of manhattan
c. that manhattan has gotten the best of her
d. manhattan is much like her family's homeland

What event triggers victors interest in electricity?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

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